POLI 340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Yemen Arab Republic, Arabian Peninsula, Arab Spring
30 Oct 2018
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State formation impact of oil regime dynamics (saudi arabia, kuwait, bahrain) resisting the arab spring. Yemen is an extremely poor state currently undergoing a civil war. They share little with the other gulf states that are wealthy and prosperous. Looks more than sub saharan africa than any other countries in the middle east do. Over 50% sunni muslims, 40-50% zayadi shiite muslims. It is very easy to apply labels to sunni and shiite, but before the civil war, many yemeni would have never thought twice of a sectarian division. Used to be two countries north and south yemen. North yemen variously under control of zaydi imamate (9th-20th century), Zayidi imamate was a sort of religious body, north yemen was never really colonised. Military coup(1962) and civil war (1962-70), leads to yemen arab republic (yar) Monarchy overthrown by coup followed by civil war followed by establishment of yemen. The path to india through the suez canal, passed over the coast of.
