...Kamilia Al-Eriani Yemen’s perpetual security crisis and excess violence have long been blamed on a weak or failed state. Who needs this narrative, and to what end? This article explains how outside powers and local elites for decades have contrived to keep the Yemeni state feeble or absent...

... Sheila Carapico Yemen war Saudi Arabia Gulf Cooperation Council Sunni Shia Houthis al-Qaeda Zaydi Arab Spring King Salman Muhammad bin PERSPECTIVE Arabia Infelix: The War Devouring Yemen SHEILA CARAPICO SHEILA CARAPICO is a professor of political science and inter- national studies...

... as a venue for secret US-Iranian meetings. Qatar often makes its own way, and its surrogates in Syria also some- times march to their own drummer. Even the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which coordinates closely with Saudi Arabia in Yemen and Syria, is pointedly skeptical of the Saudi promotion of Wahhabism...

... strikes Yemen counting debate militant revenge backlash pressure Nawaz Sharif Taliban Islamist Particularly in Afghanistan and Pakistan, drones have stirred up new levels of hostility against the United States and endangered the stability and cooperation of the local governments...

... Dunne Arab Spring Middle East Libya Tunisia Yemen Egypt Syria economic inequality political reform PERSPECTIVE Spring is not the most pleasant season in the Arab countries. The first time I spent the month of May in the Middle East, I was stunned when the mild weather turned sti- flingly...

... Yemen Houthis Shiites Zaydism Ali Abdullah Saleh Believing Youth Badr al-Din al-Houthi Iran Saudi Arabia 395 The Yemeni government . . . is attempting to assert direct control over an area that so far it has only been able to manage through a delicate balance of patronage networks...

... plans, they should maintain a healthy skepticism about the more sensational aspects of the promise of precision air power. Afghanistan Al Qaeda Iraq Kosovo Russia Saddam Hussein United States war weapons Yemen In a setting where schoolchildren line the rooftops of Saddam s palaces...

... supported these tribes against the government. © 2003 Current History. All rights reserved. 2003 The Regents of the University of California Afghanistan Al Qaeda Bakil Osama bin Laden Hashid Saudi Arabia terrorism USS Cole United States Yemen 40 Yemen has earned the dubious...