The Famous Forty and Their Companions: North Yemen's First-Generation Modernists and Educational Emigrants

Burrowes, Robert

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“…Many of the Famous 40 as well as growing numbers of Yemenis in Aden, the protectorate, and the diaspora joined Yemeni branches of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Ba'th Party, various stripes of Nasserism, and even Arab communist parties. 102 The declining health of the imam and the open contempt for Badr did not bode well for the future. In April 1959, Imam Ahmed went to Italy for Figure 10.…”

Section: Hamid Al-din Reformmentioning

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Yemen: A Different Political Paradigm in Context

Barrett¹

2011

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Section: Hamid Al-din Reformmentioning

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Yemen: A Different Political Paradigm in Context

Barrett¹

2011

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“…4 Yemen's socio-political environment did not enable the emergence of a modern nationalist bourgeoisie as the state's political leadership. However, there was a relatively small cadre educated abroad who constituted a secular minded and reformist middle class that was recruited into the state bureaucracy as its technocratic servants [34]. One shaykh from a prominent qāḍī family described this class of technocrats as 'abd al-mukhlaṣ lil dawlah ("faithful slave of the state").…”

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State Politics in Yemen: Antinomies of Nation and State

Serge¹

2018

G. J. Anthropol. Res.

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This article offers a synoptic narrative informed by a political anthropology that retraces the historical genesis of modern nation-state formation in Yemen, and describes the mechanisms of its reproduction as an explanatory prelude to the ultimate political implosion of both the Yemeni state and the national polity in the aftermath of the Arab Spring. The article elucidates the trajectory of the state's formation through the following tasks: First, it examines the catalytic factors and forces that structured the relations between the Yemeni state and the national polity, and systematically reviews the institutional and agential consequences in the form of endemic antinomies of governance, which resulted in the permanent structural disarticulation between state and nation. Second, it undertakes a history-embedded analysis of the state's adoption of an existential politics that led to a hybrid political system of elite patronage and mass clientelism. Third, it performs a structural anatomy of the state formation process that culminated in a cabalistic corporatist state exercising a consociational domination over a socio-geographically fragmented polity. And fourth, it assesses the impacts of Yemen's Arab Spring on the likely configuration of the nation-state nexus given the re-emergence of centrifugal forces that are threatening to sunder the nation into multiple regional polities.

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Locked Out of Development

Hertog

2022

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This Element argues that the low dynamism of low- to mid-income Arab economies is explained with a set of inter-connected factors constituting a 'segmented market economy'. These include an over-committed and interventionist state with limited fiscal and institutional resources; deep insider-outsider divides among firms and workers that result from and reinforce wide-ranging state intervention; and an equilibrium of low skills and low productivity that results from and reinforces insider-outsider divides. These mutually reinforcing features undermine encompassing cooperation between state, business and labor. While some of these features are generic to developing countries, others are regionally specific, including the relative importance and historical ambition of the state in the economy and, closely related, the relative size and rigidity of the insider coalitions created through government intervention. Insiders and outsiders exist everywhere, but the divisions are particularly stark, immovable and consequential in the Arab world.

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The Famous Forty and Their Companions: North Yemen's First-Generation Modernists and Educational Emigrants

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Yemen: A Different Political Paradigm in Context

Yemen: A Different Political Paradigm in Context

State Politics in Yemen: Antinomies of Nation and State

Locked Out of Development

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