Robert Burrowes
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Acting Director, Middle East Center, the Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, Seattle. Author of The Republic of Yemen: An Historical Dictionary.
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South Yemen, former country (1967–90) along the southern coast of Arabia that emerged out of a British protectorate and was unified with the Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) in 1990. Within a few years of its independence, it became the only Marxist state in the Arab world—in defiance of an…
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