Destroying Yemen

"Destined to become a classic primer about modern Yemen and the flaws of global capitalism, Destroying Yemen: What Chaos in Arabia Tells Us About The World provides a wealth of knowledge about the plight of modern Yemen and the contemporary world." * Arab Studies Quarterly * "A masterful new study. . . . Blumi's work provides an invaluable service to those seeking to understand the current war on Yemen in its historical context." * Arab Calgary News * "This is a compelling analysis of a tragic but unfolding story. It is a deeply humane, passionate, conviction-led, historically rich analysis. It is rigorously researched, detailed, complex." * Asian Review of World History * "This is a compelling analysis of a tragic but unfolding story. It is a deeply humane, passionate, conviction-led, historically rich analysis. It is rigorously researched, detailed, complex. It collapses so many 'divides' in scholarly considerations of 'weak' states and polities on the so-called periphery versus so-called core states. It gives agency to the peoples and groups of what are often seen to be marginal states and societies, rarely discussed in relation to world politics or global political development. . . . A must-read for anyone claiming to know and understand the world we live in today, regardless of their field of scholarly research." * Asian Review of World Histories * "Blumi's respect and compassion for the people of Yemen are palpable, and because of this, Destroying Yemen has moral immediacy rarely found in scholarship. The work is accessibly written, and thus can inform a more general audience, in addition to the cadre of regional specialists, on whose analysis it will hopefully have an impact. Moreover, anyone with media credentials that wishes to 'report' on the brutality Yemenis now face day after day should read it very carefully before filing his or her story." * Global Intellectual History * "This is a compelling analysis of a tragic but unfolding story. It is a deeply humane, passionate, conviction-led, historically rich analysis. It is rigorously researched, detailed, complex. It collapses so many 'divides' in scholarly considerations of 'weak' states and polities on the so-called periphery versus so-called core states. It gives agency to the peoples and groups of what are often seen to be marginal states and societies, rarely discussed in relation to world politics or global political development. . . . A must-read for anyone claiming to know and understand the world we live in today, regardless of their field of scholarly research." * Asian Review of World Histories *

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