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Important Considerations for the Middle East in 2024
Jan 10, 2024Yara M. Asi Daniel Brumberg Imad K. Harb Khalil E. Jahshan Tamara Kharroub Laurie King Dana El Kurd Yousef Munayyer
The October 7 Hamas attack on Israel and Israel’s subsequent invasion of the Gaza Strip will play a major role in shaping what unfolds in the Middle East in 20…
Policy Analysis
YemenConflicts and Conflict Resolution
Assessing Yemen as a Second Front in the Gaza War
Nov 30, 2023Nabeel A. Khoury
On November 19, Yemen’s Houthis hijacked a cargo ship indirectly linked to Israel as it was traveling in the Red Sea. Much like their firing of missiles toward…
Policy Analysis
YemenEnergy and Economics
Yemen’s War Economy: A Key Factor in the Ongoing Conflict
Sep 20, 2023Afrah Nasser
As Houthi negotiators leave Saudi Arabia after five days of talks with Saudi officials regarding the contours of a compromise solution to Yemen’s ongoing confl…
Fresh Take
YemenConflicts and Conflict Resolution
Yemen’s Stalemate: War, Peace Talks, and Continued Suffering
May 31, 2023Afrah Nasser
Afrah Nasser discusses the current stalemate in the Yemen conflict and the humanitarian disaster affecting the majority of Yemenis. Afrah Nasser is a Non-resid…
Policy Analysis
YemenConflicts and Conflict Resolution
The Thorny Relationship between Yemen’s Government and the Southern Transitional Council
May 3, 2023Afrah Nasser
In Yemen, the Southern Movement calling for separation between the North and South of Yemen is controversial. For those who oppose it, it is a simple secession…
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YemenConflicts and Conflict Resolution
Negotiations between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis to End the War in Yemen
Apr 30, 2023Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies
The Houthis have been conducting negotiations with a Saudi delegation headed by the Saudi ambassador to the internationally recognized Yemeni government, Moham…
Policy Analysis
The Arab WorldUS Foreign Policy
US Middle East Policy: The Trump-Biden Doctrine in Action
Mar 22, 2023Charles W. Dunne
All US presidents, it seems, need their own foreign policy “doctrine.” President James Monroe famously started the trend in 1823, and many others—Truman, Eisen…
Policy Analysis
YemenConflicts and Conflict Resolution
Yemen and the Saudi-Iran Rapprochement
Mar 22, 2023Nabeel A. Khoury
In the closing scene of the 1942 film Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart, walking off into the fog with his occasional nemesis as they plan their next move together, …
Policy Analysis
YemenConflicts and Conflict Resolution
Oman’s Interests and Role in the Conflict in Yemen
Mar 14, 2023Afrah Nasser
In the course of the conflict in Yemen, Oman’s role has evolved substantially and in various ways. Currently, expectations are high that the sultanate will be …
Policy Analysis
YemenInternational Law
Child Soldiers in Yemen: Cannon Fodder for an Unnecessary War
Feb 2, 2023Afrah Nasser
Recruitment of children as actual or auxiliary soldiers in Yemen’s ongoing war is one of the most dire developments in the conflict since its initial eruption …
Policy Analysis
YemenConflicts and Conflict Resolution
Yemen in Limbo: No War, Yet Still No Peace
Dec 15, 2022Afrah Nasser
Afrah Nasser discusses the current stalemate in Yemen following the expiration of a UN-sponsored ceasefire agreement, looking at actions by all parties to the …
Policy Analysis
YemenConflicts and Conflict Resolution
The Flaws and Failures of International Humanitarian Aid to Yemen
Oct 20, 2022Afrah Nasser
In a July 2022 report on the UN’s humanitarian response to the crisis in Yemen, the UN Inter-Agency Humanitarian Evaluation Steering Group concluded that “the …