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This book presents some papers presented to a symposium on contemporary Yemen held in July 1983 by Exeter University's Centre for Arab Gulf Studies in collaboration with the Universities of Aden and San'a', and deals with history, internal and international politics, and administrative subjects.
List of contents
1. Towards a Sociology of the Islamisation of Yemen
D. Thomas Gochenour 2. Memduh Pasha and Aziz Bey: Ottoman Experience in Yemen
Jon Mandaville 3. The Free Yemeni Movement: 1935-62
Leigh Douglas 4. The Rise of the National Liberation Front as a Political Organisation
Helen Lackner 5. The PDRY: Three Designs for Independence
Salem Omar Bukair 6. The Yemeni Revolution of 1962 seen as a Social Revolution
Mohammed A. Zabarah 7. Nation-building and Political Development in the Two Yemens
John Peterson 8. Education for Nation-building: the Experience of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen
Saeed Abdul Khair Al-Noban 9. South Yemen since Independence: an Arab Political Maverick
Manfred Wenner 10. Modernisation of Government Institutions 1962-9
Ahmed Al-Abiadh 11. Tribal Relations and Political History in Upper Yemen
Paul Dresch 12. The Judicial System in Democratic Yemen
Naguib A.R. Shamiry 13. Aspects of North Yemen's Relations with Saudi Arabia
M.S. El Azhary 14. Soviet Relations with South Yemen
Fred Halliday 15. The Communist Party of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen: an Analysis of its Strengths and Weaknesses
John Duke Anthony 16. The Genesis of the Call for Yemeni Unity
Sultan Nagi 17. Prospects for Yemeni Unity
Ursula Braun
About the author
B. R. Pridham
Summary
This book presents some papers presented to a symposium on contemporary Yemen held in July 1983 by Exeter University's Centre for Arab Gulf Studies in collaboration with the Universities of Aden and San'a', and deals with history, internal and international politics, and administrative subjects.
