Intervention in the Yemen: an analysis of Egyptian perceptions and policies
1975; Middle East Institute; Volume: 29; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
1940-3461
Autores Tópico(s)Global Peace and Security Dynamics
ResumoT S HE coup by army officers in the Yemen on September 26, 1962, against the Imam Muhammad al-Badr, who had succeeded to the Imamate on the death of his father Imam Ahmad only eight days earlier, heralded more than the domestic upheaval typical of army uprisings in the Middle East. It precipitated the first actual intervention by an Arab army in another Arab state and, as a result, involved at least two of the regional powers, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, in a protracted political and military conflict which spanned the best part of six years. This paper will be concerned with analyzing the motives behind, and the conduct of, the Egyptian involvement in the Yemen. It will endeavor to answer two main questions: what were the causes of the Egyptian intervention and, secondly, having decided to intervene, what type of policy alternatives the Egyptian decision makers pursued and how they executed these policy options politically and militarilv in the international arena and within the Yemen itself.
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