How Do You Solve a Problem Like the Houthis?
Tackling Yemen’s root problems won’t be easy, quick, or cheap, which is why no one has really tried.
Tackling Yemen’s root problems won’t be easy, quick, or cheap, which is why no one has really tried.
While not yet successful, the Biden administration’s “deter and degrade” approach may prove to be an adaptable approach that can be modified into a winning strategy.
The Houthis see the attacks in the Red Sea as part of a broader political project that goes back decades.
The United States appears overly confident that military strikes will put the Houthi threat back in the box.
Would South Yemen be a state for Southerners, or would it be the anti-Houthi Yemeni state?
Saudi Arabia’s new, exit-focused strategy for Yemen implicitly weakens the country’s formal institutions and provides greater political leverage for the Houthis, imposing indirect costs that could undercut prospects for a broader U.N.-led Yemeni peace process.
Regardless of how or when the current conflict in Yemen ends, child soldiers are not simply going to disappear.
The Houthi campaign to deny revenue and resources to Yemen’s U.N.-recognized government threatens the country’s long-term stability and risks upending any Saudi-Houthi deal.
If the international community wants to ensure that Yemen’s war actually ends when the peace deal is signed, it needs to rebuild the country’s economy.
Gulf national oil companies represent a new pool of capital for global gas investment, and with some of their first forays in the United States, Gulf gas deals suggest Washington’s relations with Riyadh and Abu Dhabi are improving.
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