Suchergebnisse

1. Context and framework -- 2. The Arab League : structure and evolution -- 3. The Arab League : peace and security -- 4. The Arab League : economic, social, and cultural cooperation -- 5. The Arab League : problems and prospects -- 6. The Gulf Cooperation Council : structure and evolution -- 7. The Gulf Cooperation Council : security, peace, and defense -- 8. The Gulf Cooperation Council : economic, social, and cultural cooperation -- 9. The Gulf Cooperation Council : problems and prospects -- 10 The Arab Maghreb Union -- 11. The Arab League, Gulf Cooperation Council, and the Arab Spring.

No modern intervention is intended to endure indefinitely; indeed some fashion of exit is always envisioned from the outset. This commitment to an exit is normally informed by an exit strategy. Whilst strategies of closure have been scrutinised recently, not least in light of charges of defective intentions and planning, the relations between the strategies, operations and tactics of exit have not been contextualised. Focus on the local, specific and bottom-up manifestations of transitions offers significant enhances to historical, theoretical and applied understandings. This book is an introduction not just to the issues of transition, handover and withdrawal, but to exit as a package of theoretical concepts and how these have been understood, shaped and employed in historic and contemporary perspective. Drawing on a wide range of post-1945 examples derived from a variety of regions and periods, this book provides researchers and practitioners with a source book on what forms a crucial and often overlooked element of past and present interventions

« Britain's hasty departure from Aden and South Arabia after 128 years has often been presented as a humiliation at best and a disaster at worst. London's hopes of handing power and sovereignty over to a friendly federal regime collapsed in the face of a nationalist uprising backed that enjoyed the support of Egypt. Five decades after the final British troops left Aden, academic experts and former British officials directly involved in the events that unfolded critically reflect on British withdrawal from South Arabia, the postcolonial problems in South Yemen that still resonate today, and how the United Kingdom learnt from its experience in stabilising Oman while overseeing the formation of the United Arab Emirates. « (Verlagsbeschreibung)