Destroying Yemen

What Chaos in Arabia Tells Us about the World

Isa Blumi (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

312 Seiten

2018
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-29614-5 (ISBN)

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Since March 2015, a Saudi-led international coalition of forces-supported by Britain and the United States-has waged devastating war in Yemen. Largely ignored by the world's media, the resulting humanitarian disaster and full scale famine threatens millions. Destroying Yemen offers the first in-depth historical account of the transnational origins of this war, placing it in the illuminating context of Yemen's relationship with major powers since the Cold War. Bringing new sources and a deep understanding to bear on Yemen's profound, unwitting imbrication in international affairs, this explosive book ultimately tells an even larger shock-doctrine story of today's political economy of global capitalism, development, and the war on terror as disparate actors intersect in Arabia.

Isa Blumi is Associate Professor in the Department of Asian, Middle Eastern, and Turkish Studies at Stockholm University. He has taught at universities in Germany, Belgium, Turkey, the United States, the United Arab Emirates, Switzerland, and Albania/Kosovo. He is the author of Ottoman Refugees, Foundations of Modernity, and Reinstating the Ottomans.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Note on Dates, Abbreviations, and Transliteration

Introduction
1 • The Quest for Global Hegemony Starts There
2 • The Region That Pumps the Heart of the Cold War, 1941–1960
3 • Birthing Revolution: A Genealogy of the 1962 Coup
4 • Wrong from the Start: Modernization and Development and the Violence They Spun
5 • Making Yemen Dance: The Regime and the Politics of Chaos
6 • Plundering Yemen and Its Post-Spring Hiatus
Coda: Yemen’s Relevance to the Larger World

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	03.02.2018
Zusatzinfo	5 halftones, 4 maps
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-520-29614-1 / 0520296141
ISBN-13	978-0-520-29614-5 / 9780520296145
Zustand	Neuware