Destroying Yemen

Isa Blumi

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN:
  9780520296138
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780520968783
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Middle Eastern History
• Index: History

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 implication in international affairs, this explosive book ultimately tells an even larger story of today's political economy of global capitalism, development, and the war on terror as disparate actors intersect in Arabia.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• 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