The Yemeni Civil War: The Arab Spring, State fo. Manea**

University of Exeter Press

The Yemeni Civil WarThe Arab Spring, State formation and internal instability\nAuthor(s): Elham Manea\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Exeter Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: University of Exeter Press\nISBN-13: 9781804130575, 978-1804130575\nSynopsis\nThis book suggests an innovative theoretical framework to understand the meltdown and civil wars of countries such as Yemen, Syria, and Libya after their 2011 uprisings, using Yemen as a case study. The interaction between different types of state formation and regional rivalry can explain, respectively, the civil wars of these countries and the preservation of the Bahraini system, despite its ethnic nature.\n\nThe analysis works on two interconnected levels: First, an internal level focusing on the state formation of the country in question; and second, a regional level examining the operational context within which each country functions, and the type of actors involved in its political affairs.\n\nThe recurrent instability.