Worrall, J orcid.org/0000-0001-5229-5152 (2017) The Missing Link? Police and Statebuilding in South Arabia. Middle Eastern Studies, 53 (1). pp. 19-34. ISSN 0026-3206
Abstract
The failure of the state-building project, the insurgency and, to use the famous phrase, Britain's ‘scuttle’, or ignominious withdrawal, from South Arabia have long been the subject of study, receiving attention from many angles and new perspectives. One aspect which has received less attention is the role of policing in the state-building project of the Federation of South Arabia. This article sets out to explore this lacuna by contextualizing the role of policing in state-building and examining the impact of its absence in the case of South Arabia. It is clear that Britain left it very late to attempt the construction of a Federal State in the face of mounting pressures and challenges, and even later to establish a proper Federal Police Service. The article thus examines the argument that the lack of developed policing structures was the missing link in the state-building process before asking if Britain simply left the construction of effective and unified policing structures too late, or whether this was simply an impossible task.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Middle Eastern Studies on 22 November 2016, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/00263206.2016.1196668. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Politics & International Studies (POLIS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 14 Jun 2016 12:49 |
Last Modified: | 22 May 2018 00:38 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/00263206.2016.1196668 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis (Routledge) |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/00263206.2016.1196668 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:100864 |