Yemen
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Developing the National Dialogue in Yemen
The National Dialogue in Yemen has been around as an idea since at least 2009...
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Rebuilding Yemen: Roadmap for a National Dialogue
Speaking at the second session of this roundtable discussion, my contribution focuses on the parameters...
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Yemen’s transition: Key challenges for the national dialogue
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.
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Yemen needs an insurgent democracy
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.
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Yemen ‘after’ Saleh: Let the crises continue?
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.
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Almost one year on: three lessons from the Arab Spring
When Mohamed Bouazizi, a jobless graduate in the provincial city of Sidi Bouzid in Tunisia,...
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Questions on Libya
If Gaddafi supporters in/outside the regime did not fight, where are they and what are...
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Four Questions on Libya and the Middle East
Published in Atlantic Review on 22 August 2011. If Gaddafi supporters in/outside the regime did not...
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Three questions on Libya and one on the region
If Gaddafi supporters in/outside the regime did not fight, where are they and what are...
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Yemen and the Gulf States
On 12 May 2011, I’ll be chairing a Members’ Event at Chatham House on ...
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The death of Osama Bin Laden—what implications for international security?
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.
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Three reasons why we should not arm the Libyan rebels
1. The legal foundations for doing so are shaky. UN Security Council Resolution 1970 (2011) of...
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Libya: A solution worse than the problem?
As the crisis in Libya unfolds and as the US, France and the UK get...
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How to deal with Yemen
Stefan Wolff Once again, Yemen has hit the international news headlines, consolidating a widespread public perception...
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The Yemen Plane Terror Plot
Thurrock Gazette posted this Press Association interview with me on the Yemen plane terror plot...
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Yemen: Political Dynamics and the International Policy Framework
I delivered the closing remarks — Helping Yemen to help itself — at a day-long...
