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GIS Dossier: Yemen’s civil war
Starting as an uprising by a marginalized ethnic group during the Arab Spring in 2011, the conflict in Yemen quickly gained momentum, becoming a civil war and later a proxy war between two of the region’s titans. The conflict is now a key element in the wider struggle for hegemony between Saudi Arabia and Iran. But as GIS analysts have pointed out over the years, it has the potential to spill over into a wider regional conflagration – even one with a nuclear dimension.
Saudi Arabia and the UAE have diverging goals in Yemen
The United Arab Emirates is part of a Saudi-led coalition against the Houthis in Yemen. But recently, it has become clear that Abu Dhabi’s and Riyadh’s goals are diverging. While both the Emiratis and Saudis want to roll back Iran’s growing influence in the region, the UAE wants to divide ...
Saudi Arabia considers how to recast foreign policy and rely less on US
Saudi Arabia’s relations with its Arab neighbours have been troubled since the state was founded in 1932. The kingdom’s territorial expansion, border disputes and export of Wahhabi Islam have all fed fears of Saudi political domination. Now that the decades-long alliance with Washington has cooled and the United States’ security ...
Regime changes resulting in failed states
Saudi Arabia, supported directly or indirectly by a coalition of other Arab countries especially Egypt, has intervened with air strikes in Yemen's internal war. We can assume the Saudi intervention is backed by the US, writes Prince Michael of Liechtenstein.How did Yemen’s internal war develop? Powerful President Ali Abdullah Saleh, ...
Aden new capital on Yemen’s road to secession
Houthi rebels have occupied Yemen’s capital Sanaa for months. They put President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi under house arrest in January 2015, but he escaped to Yemen’s second largest city, Aden, writes Prince Michael of Liechtenstein. Now the president has named Aden as the country’s temporary capital.GIS, when analysing the Yemen ...
