The National Dialogue in Yemen has been around as an idea since at least 2009...
Speaking at the second session of this roundtable discussion, my contribution focuses on the parameters...
The post-election national dialogue in Yemen faces a multitude of serious challenges and there is a wide range of potential spoilers inside and outside the country, but it is Yemen’s perhaps only chance at negotiating a transition.
Democracy may not be a panacea for Yemen’s multiple crises, but a Yemen without democracy in its future will be no different than the Yemen of the recent past.
The key priorities for domestic and international crisis management in Yemen must be to work with all political forces in Yemen to prevent an outbreak of major violence as they compete for power and influence in the country, to contain and delimit the threat of AQAP, and to initiate a process of economic stabilisation and recovery.
When Mohamed Bouazizi, a jobless graduate in the provincial city of Sidi Bouzid in Tunisia,...
If Gaddafi supporters in/outside the regime did not fight, where are they and what are...
Published in Atlantic Review on 22 August 2011. If Gaddafi supporters in/outside the regime did not...
If Gaddafi supporters in/outside the regime did not fight, where are they and what are...
On 12 May 2011, I’ll be chairing a Members’ Event at Chatham House on ...
Osama Bin Laden’s death is a significant, if perhaps mostly symbolic, achievement in the fight against international terrorism. It does not spell the end of al-Qaeda, but it demonstrates that Western skill and determination can prevail.
1. The legal foundations for doing so are shaky. UN Security Council Resolution 1970 (2011) of...
As the crisis in Libya unfolds and as the US, France and the UK get...
Stefan Wolff Once again, Yemen has hit the international news headlines, consolidating a widespread public perception...
Thurrock Gazette posted this Press Association interview with me on the Yemen plane terror plot...
I delivered the closing remarks — Helping Yemen to help itself — at a day-long...