Overview
- Offers the reader a rigorous, well-researched analysis of how and why the political crisis and war in Yemen occurred
- Provides crucial historical background information extending back to 2010, one year before the Arab Spring
- Brings together contributions from top scholars, examining Yemen's political crisis and war through the lens of the multiple-actor analytical model
- Considers the internal roles of President Hadi, former president Saleh, Houthi rebels, the Islah party, Hirak movement, Southern Transitional Council, and various Salafi and Jihadi groups like al-Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
About this book
This international relations study investigates the underlying causes of the Yemen crisis by analyzing the interactions of global, regional, and local actors. At all phases, GCC member states played a key role, from political negotiations amidst street protests in 2011 to formation of an international military coalition in 2015. Using a multi-actor model, the book shows that various actors, whether state or non-state, foreign or domestic, combined to create a disastrous armed conflict and humanitarian crisis. Yemen’s tragedy is often blamed on Saudi Arabia and its rivalry with Iran, which is usually defined in sectarian “Sunni-Shia” terms, yet the book presents a more complex picture of what happened due to involvement by many other foreign actors, such as the UAE, UN, UK, US, EU, Russia, China, Turkey, Oman, Qatar, and African states of the Red Sea and Horn of Africa.
Similar content being viewed by others
Keywords
Table of contents (18 chapters)
-
Front Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Stephen W. Day is Adjunct Professor of International Affairs at Rollins College, and former Visiting Assistant Professor of Middle East Politics at St. Lawrence University and Stetson University, USA.
Noel Brehony CMG is Honorary Vice President and former Chair of the British Yemeni Society. He is former President of the British Society for Middle East Studies and former Chair of the Council for British Research in the Levant.
Noel Brehony CMG is Honorary Vice President and former Chair of the British Yemeni Society. He is former President of the British Society for Middle East Studies and former Chair of the Council for British Research in the Levant.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Global, Regional, and Local Dynamics in the Yemen Crisis
Editors: Stephen W. Day, Noel Brehony
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35578-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-35577-7Published: 11 February 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-35580-7Published: 11 February 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-35578-4Published: 10 February 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXI, 321
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Middle Eastern Politics, Conflict Studies, International Security Studies