Between Interest and Interventionism : Probing the Limits of Foreign Policy along the Tracks of an Extraordinary Case Study : The GDR's Engagement in South Yemen

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dc.contributor.authorMuller, Miriam Manuela
dc.contributor.supervisorSchroeder, Klaus
dc.contributor.supervisorMassing, Peter
dc.contributor.supervisorSchmidtke, Oliver
dc.date.accessioned2015-03-13T23:04:48Z
dc.date.available2016-12-18T12:22:05Z
dc.date.copyright2014en_US
dc.date.issued2015-03-13
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Political Science
dc.degree.levelDoctor of Philosophy Ph.D.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis case study is the first comprehensive analysis of the German Democratic Republic’s activities in South Yemen, the only Marxist state in the Arab World and at times the closest and most loyal ally to the Soviet Union in the Middle East during the Cold War. The dissertation analyzes East German Foreign Policy as a case of Socialist state- and nation-building and in doing so produces one major hypotheses: The case of South Yemen may be considered both, an ‘exceptional case’ and the possible ‘ideal type’ of the ‘general’ of East German foreign policy and thus points to what the GDR’s foreign policy could have been, if it hadn’t been for the numerous restraints of East German foreign-policy-making. The author critically engages with the normative and empirical dimensions of the ‘Limits of Foreign Policy’ by including a constructivist perspective of foreign policy. Apart from the case study itself, the dissertation provides the reader with a thorough overview of forty years of East German foreign policy with a focus on the interests and influence of The Soviet Union as well as the first introduction and methodological approach to East Germany's foreign policy in the Middle East. The empirical side of the analysis rests on archival documents of the German Foreign Office, the German National Archive and the former Ministry of State Security of the GDR. These documents are reviewed and published for the first time and are complemented by personal interviews with contemporary witnesses. The interdisciplinary approach integrates and expands methods of both History and Political Science, applicable to other cases. Conducted research is intended to contribute to academic discourse on South Yemen’s unique history, divided Germany’s role in the Cold War, East German foreign policy, but also the long-term impact of Socialist foreign-policy-making in the Global South which so far has been neglected almost completely in academia.en_US
dc.description.proquestemailmiriam.mueller@fu-berlin.deen_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationMüller, Miriam, Papiertiger auf Beutezug. Über die Schlussakte von Helsinki und ihre Bedeutung für das geteilte Deutschland [On the Final Report of the CSCE and the role of divided Germany], in: Deutschland Archiv, Bertelsmann Verlag, Bielefeld, 43. Jahrgang, 4/2010.en_US
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationMüller, Miriam, Zwischen Ost und West liegt Helsinki – Die Bedeutung des KSZE-Prozesses für DDR und Bundesrepublik bis 1975 im Vergleich unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der innerdeutschen Beziehungen, unpublished Diploma-Thesis at Free University Berlin, 2009.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/5908
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rights.tempAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectSouth Yemenen_US
dc.subjectPDRYen_US
dc.subjectGDRen_US
dc.subjectForeign Policyen_US
dc.subjectDivided Germanyen_US
dc.subjectCold Waren_US
dc.subjectSoviet Unionen_US
dc.subjectSocialismen_US
dc.subjectState-Buildingen_US
dc.subjectNation-Buildingen_US
dc.subjectGulf of Adenen_US
dc.subjectCrown Colony of Adenen_US
dc.subjectBritish Occupationen_US
dc.subjectNational Liberation Fronten_US
dc.subjectMarxism-Leninismen_US
dc.subjectPostcolonialismen_US
dc.subjectNeocolonialismen_US
dc.subjectGermanen_US
dc.subjectIdentityen_US
dc.subjectArab Nationalismen_US
dc.subjectArab Socialismen_US
dc.subjectArab Nationalist Movementen_US
dc.subjectAl-Hiraken_US
dc.subjectSouthern Movementen_US
dc.subjectConstructivismen_US
dc.subjectSocialisten_US
dc.subjectDevelopmenten_US
dc.subjectGlobal Southen_US
dc.subjectMiddle Easten_US
dc.subjectArab Springen_US
dc.subjectMarxisten_US
dc.subjectCriticalen_US
dc.subjectBab Al-Mandaben_US
dc.subjectSocotraen_US
dc.subjectYemeni Socialist Partyen_US
dc.subjectYSPen_US
dc.subjectFLOSYen_US
dc.subjectNational Liberation Fronten_US
dc.subjectNLFen_US
dc.subjectSEDen_US
dc.subjectSozialistische EInheitspartei Deutschlandsen_US
dc.subjectHoneckeren_US
dc.subjectUlbrichten_US
dc.subjectEast Berlinen_US
dc.titleBetween Interest and Interventionism : Probing the Limits of Foreign Policy along the Tracks of an Extraordinary Case Study : The GDR's Engagement in South Yemenen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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