jpowerj's reviews
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Maybe I have to read the precursor book to fully understand this one, but... I feel like it could have been shorter since each case study mostly... Reiterated very similar points? I was reading Selling Intervention and War by Jon Western at the same time and the latter felt a lot more like, each case study contributed more helpfully to the whole argument

It's... Somewhat close to what I was looking for, but, idk it didn't click with me in the same way that some analytical marxist works like Free To Lose by Roemer clicked with me

It felt like he wrote this book as some sort of strange flex about how many very specific yemeni family names he could remember, and their feuds with one another, without any semblance of like a narrative or interesting analysis of sociopolitical factors or...
 Anything? Like, I read the entire book and still have no clue why south yemeni became marxist while the north became Arab nationalist, which was the whole reason I wanted to learn about yemeni (that and how that collapsed and turned into modern yemen, but I would've been happy with either one of those...)