Britain's Departure from Aden and South Arabia: Without Glory but Without Disaster

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Britain's Departure from Aden and South Arabia

Without Glory but Without Disaster

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Edited by Noel Brehony, Clive Jones

Publisher:: Gerlach Books
Online publication date:: October 2025
Print publication year:: 2020
Online ISBN:: 9783959940832
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9783959940832

Subjects:: Regional and World History: General Interest, History
Series:: Middle East Studies

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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 post-colonial 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.

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Without Glory but Without Disaster

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Acknowledgements
pp vii-viii

Abbreviations
pp ix-x

Introduction: Humiliating Withdrawal or a Necessary Retreat? Reflections on Britain and South Arabia 50 Years on
pp 1-18

1 - The British Withdrawal from South Arabia
pp 19-28

2 - Britain’s Security Response: Was the Protectorate Aden’s Shield or Achilles Heel?
pp 29-46

3 - ‘The Present Drift of Events Makes One Feel Extremely Embittered and Depressed’: The British Exit from South Arabia
pp 47-64

4 - Breaking Promises and Betraying Friends? Reflections on the British Withdrawal from Aden
pp 65-76

5 - A Federal Panacea? British Policy and the Idea of a South Arabian Federal State, 1952-63
pp 77-94

6 - The South Arabian Army – A Poisoned Chalice?
pp 95-110

7 - Operation Salah al-Din: The Egyptian Intelligence Service and its Role in the Clandestine War against Britain in South Yemen
pp 111-132

8 - Waiting for Labour: Alec Douglas-Home, Lyndon Johnson and the Challenge of South West Arabia, 1963-64
pp 133-152

9 - Between Withdrawal and Greater Engagement: The Aden Abandonment and its Impacts on British Policymaking towards Oman, 1968-72
pp 153-168

10 - Managing and Mismanaging Departure: The South Arabian Federation and the United Arab Emirates in Comparative Perspective
pp 169-184

11 - South Yemen after the British
pp 185-200

About the Contributors
pp 201-204

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