Abstract
Failure and success in state formation: British policy towards the Federation of South Arabia and the United Arab Emirates
Highlights
In the mid‐1950s, the Governor of Aden, Sir Tom Hickinbotham, had championed the idea of rationalizing the disparate territories of the hinterland. His specific proposal centred on the creation, in the first instance, of two federations, one each in the Eastern and Western Aden Protectorates
Hickinbotham envisaged that these developments would lay the foundations for the eventual federation of both Protectorates with Aden colony.[2]
Britain’s Political Resident in the Gulf, Bernard Burrows, advised that ‘The commotion caused by our proposals to federate the States of the Aden Protectorate should perhaps be a warning against undue zeal in this direction at the present time.’[3]. In the Foreign Office there was general acceptance of Burrows’ views on the impracticality of promoting a federation, one official going so far as to urge the eschewal of any ‘“grand design” for the whole Persian Gulf’
Summary
From the second half of the nineteenth century, amalgamating contiguous territories had become a standard feature of British imperial policy whether in Canada, Australia, or South Africa.
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