How (and why) did NORTH and SOUTH YEMEN unite?

The May 1990 unification of the Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen) to form the Republic of Yemen was an extremely unusual case of a merger between two sovereign states in international relations. However, unlike other mergers, such as Germany's unification that same year, which usually saw a country that had been divided reunited, North and South Yemen had very different histories. They had never be a single state. So, why did they choose to unify? And how did it happen?

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While we may think that the unification of North and South Yemen was a natural development, in truth it was a long and often difficult process. Despite their long-standing wish for unity, they had little experience of living together. Indeed, over the previous 150 years they had had rather different histories. Moreover, political developments in both countries made the process of Yemeni unification difficult and drawn out - and even led to two wars. In the end, the decision to unify was largely due to geopolitical changes taking place at the time, namely the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, and specific domestic political factors in both countries.

CHAPTERS
0:00 Introduction and Titles
0:58 State Mergers in International Politics
2:08 Introduction to Yemen and the history of North Yemen
3:28 British Rule and the Emergence of South Yemen
5:09 The Process of Yemeni Unification
9:30 The Tragic Consequences of Unification
10:19 Why Yemen's Unification was Important

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