Yemen
Basics
CIA World Factbook. Includes map.
UN Development Program, Human Development Indicators
World Guide (Montevideo)
On the Web: Articles
Our Designated Killers: "Where's the Outrage?". Village Voice (2/14/03). On US government assassination in Yemen of American citizen Kamal Derwish, never either charged or tried on charges of terrorism.
On the Web: Specialized Sites
Al Bawaba: Middle East Gateway. Section for each country.
Middle
East Research & Information Project
Publishers of MERIP Report, an indispensable source.
Al Ashtal, Abdullah. "Politics in command: a case study of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen," Monthly Review 27,9 (2/76):13-21.
Anon. "Yemen's oil production climbing, potential great," Oil & Gas Journal 99,10 (3/5/01):82.
Halliday, Fred. "Yemen's uneasy elections," World Today 53,3 (3/97):73-76.
Harman, Danna. "A first for Yemen, women," Christian Science Monitor (9/18/03):16.
Kaplan, Robert. "A tale of two colonies," Atlantic Monthly (4/03):46-54.
Rouleau, Eric. "Revolutionary Southern Yemen," Monthly Review 25,1 (5/73):25-42.
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Almadhagi, Ahmed Noman Kassim. Yemen & the US: A Study of a Small Power & Super-State Relationship, 1962-1994 (NY: I.B. Tauris, 1996).
Al-Rashid, Ibrahim (ed.) Yemen Enters the Modern World: Secret US Documents on the Rise of the Second Power on the Arabian Peninsula (Chapel Hill: U. North Carolina, 1984).
Amnesty International. Yemen: Human Rights Concerns Following Recent Armed Conflict (NY, 1994).
__________. Yemen: Empty Promises. Government Commitments & the State of Human Rights in Yemen (London, 1999).
Burrowes, Robert. The Yemen Arab Republic: The Politics of Development, 1962-1986 (Boulder: Westview, 1987).
__________. Historical Dictionary of Yemen (Metuchen NJ: Scarecrow, 1995).
Carapico, Sheila & Richard Tutwiler. Yemeni Agriculture & Economic Change: Case Studies of Two Highland Regions (San'a: American Institute of Yemeni Studies, 1981).
__________. Yemen: Human Rights in Yemen During & After the 1994 War (NY: Human Rights Watch, 1994).
__________. Civil Society in Yemen: The Political Economy of Activism in Modern Arabia (NY: Cambridge, 1998).
__________. Arabia Incognita: An Invitation to Arabian Peninsula Studies (San Domenico: European University Institute, 2002).
Cortada, James N. The Yemen Crisis (Los Angeles: U. California, 1965).
Deffarge, Claude et Gordion Troeller. Yemen 62-69, de la revolution sauvage a la treve des guerriers (Paris: R. Laffont, 1969).
Deonna, Laurence. Yemen (Washington: Three Continents, 1991).
Dresch, Paul. Tribes, Government & History in Yemen (NY: Oxford, 1989).
__________. A History of Modern Yemen (NY: Cambridge, 2000).
Ingrams, William H. The Yemen: Imams, Rulers & Revolutions (NY: Praeger, 1964).
Joffe, E.G.H. & M.J. Hachemi. Yemen Today: Crisis & Solutions (London: Caravel, 1997).
Kostiner, Joseph. The Struggle for South Yemen (NY: St. Martin's, 1984).
__________. South Yemen's Revolutionary Strategy: 1970-1985: From Insurgency to Bloc Politics (Boulder: Westview, 1990).
__________. Yemen: The Tortuous Quest for Unity, 1990-94 (London: Royal Institute for International Affairs, 1996).
Leveau, Remy et al. (eds.) Le Yemen contemporain (Paris: Karthala, 1999).
Pelletiere, Stephen C. Yemen & Stability in the Persian Gulf: Confronting the Threat from Within (Carlisle Barracks PA: US Army War College, 1996).
Peterson, John. Yemen: The Search for a Modern State (London: Croom Helm, 1982).
Prados, Alfred B. Yemen: Civil Strife (Washington: Congressional Research Service, 1994).
Schmidt, Dana Adams. Yemen: The Unknown War (NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1968).
Stookey, Robert W. Yemen: The Politics of the Yemen Arab Republic (Boulder: Westview, 1978).
__________. South Yemen: A Marxist Republic in Arabia (Boulder: Westview, 1982).
Wald, Peter. Yemen (London: Pallas Athene, 1996).
Wenner, Manfred W. The Yemen Arab Republic: Development & Change in an Ancient Land (Boulder: Westview, 1991).
Zabarah, Mohammed Ahmad. Yemen: Traditionalism vs. Modernity (NY: Praeger, 1982).