ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with Yemen essentially follow the same approach as that of Germany, however, the period of time investigated commences in 1967 since both North and South Yemen as separate entities were founded in 1918 and 1967. Comparisons are not infrequently made between the unification processes in Germany and Yemen as well as the post-unity developments which were to follow in an effort to identify both relevant similarities as well as actual differences. In accordance with the 1945 Potsdam agreement, Germany came to be governed by the allied nations of the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom as well as France. The Socialist Unity Party's began losing most of its members as did the trade union, the Free German Youth. Soviet cooperation in the unification process was important, since as the German scholar Manfred Pohl points out, East Germany was never really a sovereign state because the Soviet Union had had the final say on political decisions.
