Democratization in the Arab World?: Yemen’s Aborted Opening

Issue Date October 2002
Volume 13
Issue 4
Page Numbers 48-55
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While President Ali ABdallah Salih continues to call Yemen an ’emerging democracy,’ it more closely resembles athe autocracy of the pre-unification North.

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