Secularism, Security and the Weak State: De-democratizing the 2011 Yemeni Uprising

Al-Eriani, Kamilia

doi:10.1080/1369801x.2020.1816854

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“…Reacting to this regionalism plan, the official spokesperson for the Houthi movement, Mohamed Abdel Salam, stated that "[w]e did not sign this document and we consider it does not represent a solution, not to the issue of the South or to the unresolved national issues, and the division was in accordance to the political whim" (quoted on Al-Alam TV website, February 10, 2014, source no longer available). The overall outcome of the Dialogue Conference was to exclude the Houthis, the Southern Movement, and the youth protesters of 2011 from representation in government (Al-Eriani, 2020).…”

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From Fragile to Collapsed Statehood: The Case of the Republic of Yemen (1990-2020)

Dostal¹

2021

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The unification of the two Yemeni states?the northern Yemen Arab Republic (YAR) and the southern People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen (PDRY), respectively?in 1990 has been a resounding failure. Merging the tribal-dominated northern and state-party dominated southern regimes meant increasing the number of factions competing for access to state resources to satisfy material and security needs of their respective networks of influence. In particular, efforts at growing the resource base of the unified state after 1990, by means of an expansion of oil and gas exploration and extraction, raised the revenue base of the state in an unsustainable manner. Such growth in national oil and gas rents increased rather than decreased competition over state authority to control the spoils. The major subsequent events, such as the 1994 civil war, the 2004-2010 “Saada wars” against the Houthi movement, the Yemeni version of the “Arab Spring” in 2011, the failure of the National Dialogue Conference (March 2013-January 2014), and the start of the Saudi and Emirati bombing campaign and subsequent ground war in Yemen since March 2015 all triggered major clashes between different factions of the Yemeni state bureaucracy, army, and civil society. On each of these occasions, efforts to freeze out some Yemeni actors produced escalating conflict between the remaining factions instead of a winning coalition that could have reestablished a degree of stability. The article explains how local, regional, and global factors have jointly overwhelmed the Yemeni actors, and how foreign intervention has led to the further deterioration of the pre-existing national crisis.

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From Fragile to Collapsed Statehood: The Case of the Republic of Yemen (1990-2020)

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2021

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Introduction: Imagining Alternatives to Globalization of the Nation Form

Ibrahim

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2022

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This chapter makes a set of three interconnected arguments. The first argument, which critically binds the volume together, is that rather than seeing contemporary politics in terms of globalization eroding the nation state or its persistence regardless of globalization, what characterizes the world is the globalization of the nation form. Second, by showing nationalism’s relationship with violence it underlines the need to interrogate the efficacy and morality of the nation state as a form of polis. Third, in dialogue with Arjun Appadurai’s productive criticism of nationalism, it makes the contention that instead of being informed exclusively by the present and the diaspora (as in Appadurai’s writings), imaginings of a postnational world should equally account for the pre- and anti-national forms of thoughts prior to the World War II. To this end, it discusses Muhammad Iqbal (d. 1938), poet-philosopher of undivided India, and Hasan al-Banna (d. 1949), activist-reformer and founder of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood. The second and third arguments thus outline arenas for future decolonial anthropological and other works on nationalism and culture more generally. With a description of the volume’s manifold theoretical and methodological distinctions, the chapter concludes with an outline of chapters ahead.

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Qatar and the UAE in the Syrian early recovery: top-down strategies of foreign aid

Pericoli

2023

Third World Quarterly

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Secularism, Security and the Weak State: De-democratizing the 2011 Yemeni Uprising

Cited by 4 publications

References 21 publications

From Fragile to Collapsed Statehood: The Case of the Republic of Yemen (1990-2020)

From Fragile to Collapsed Statehood: The Case of the Republic of Yemen (1990-2020)

Introduction: Imagining Alternatives to Globalization of the Nation Form

Qatar and the UAE in the Syrian early recovery: top-down strategies of foreign aid

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