Abstract
Over the past two decades, "natural" Yemen has been undergoing a process of political development and change. This paper examines the interaction of tribal social organization with the emerging state structures and political ideologies in contemporary southwest Arabia. Evidence from a community near the North Yemen border with South Yemen demonstrates how tribal social organization continues to be actively employed in framing regional political conflicts. Parallels are drawn between the massing of tribal forces in conflict situations in North Yemen and the rapid escalation of the 1986 political conflict in South Yemen that left the capital city, Aden, in ruins.
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