Review: Third World: Saudi-Yemeni Relations
| Author | Stephen Page |
| Published date | 01 June 1992 |
| Date | 01 June 1992 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070209204700216 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
REVIEWS/THIRD
WORLD
453
domestic
resistance
through
both
exhaustion
and
the demonstration
effect
of
material
standards
in
neighbouring
states.
This
in
turn
pro-
duced
the
transition
period,
the
search for
compromise with
traditional
external
enemies;
as
in
other
revolutionary
states, this
was
resisted
internally, and
the
bloodiest
upheaval (and
the
last,
as
it
turned
out)
ensued
in
January
1986.
Its
legitimacy
shaken
to
the
core,
the
'revolu-
tionary'
leadership
which
emerged
victorious
adopted
the
foreign
pol-
icy
and
domestic
compromises
of
the 'reactionary'
defeated
group.
This
process
was
encouraged
and perhaps
smoothed
by
changes
at
the
global
level,
as
Moscow
lost
its
enthusiasm
for
unstable
Third
World
clients.
The
author
did
not
set
himself the
task of
writing
a
comparative
study.
This
is
only
a
case-study,
but
an
illuminating
one
which
provides
a
framework
for
comparisons
of
the
foreign
policies
of
other
revolution-
ary
states.
Stephen
Page/Queen's
University
SAUDI-YEMENI
RELATIONS
Domestic
structures and
foreign
influence
E
Gregory
Gause
III
New
York:
Columbia
University
Press,
1990,
Xii,
233pp,
US$3
5
.oo
One
of
the
more
fascinating
sets
of
questions
in
the
study
of
the
Third
World
in
international
relations
revolves
around
the
issue
of
influence:
why
can
one
state
be
influenced
while
its
neighbour
(similar
in
many
respects)
cannot and,
conversely,
why
can
a
regional
power
influence
one
of
its
neighbours
more
effectively
than
another?
There
can rarely
be
satisfactory
answers
to
these
questions.
However,
Gregory
Gause
has
come
up
with
some
satisfactory
answers,
in
this
comparative study of
the
relatively
successful
exercise
during
the
period
1968-82
of Saudi
Arabian
influence
on
North
Yemen
versus
the
complete
failure of
Saudi
Arabia
to
influence the
(former)
South
Yemen.
It
is
a
well-chosen
case,
since
the
Saudis
were
very
anx-
ious
to
exercise
influence
over
both,
and
since
both
were
similar
parts
of
a
self-perceived
entity,
yet
had
chosen
very
different
political
sys-
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