Destroying Yemen

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.

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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

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