Author: Christopher Boucek / Political Geography: Yemen

Author:: Christopher Boucek and Mara Revkin
Publication Date:: 03-2011
Content Type:: Journal Article
Journal:: CTC Sentinel
Institution:: The Combating Terrorism Center at West Point
Abstract:: The wave of popular uprisings sweeping across the Arab world has caught the region's most entrenched authoritarian regimes off guard. Yet unlike Tunisia, Egypt, and other custodians of an undemocratic status quo, Yemen is no stranger to instability. Long before protesters took to the streets of Sana`a on January 20, 2011 to demand political reforms, the 32-year-old regime of President Ali Abdullah Salih was already struggling to contain a daunting array of security, economic, and governance challenges.
Topic:: Security and Economics
Political Geography:: Yemen, Arabia, Egypt, and Tunisia

Author:: Christopher Boucek
Publication Date:: 07-2010
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Abstract:: Although al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) is not the biggest problem -- or even the biggest security challenge -- facing the Yemeni government, the United States and much of the international community still place it above other issues. Successful counterterrorism is directly linked to state stability. If Yemen becomes a failed state within the next few decades, U.S. counterterrorism objectives would be decisively undermined. The challenge for U.S. policy is finding a way to bolster the struggle against AQAP without exacerbating other aspects of Yemen's overlapping security, economic, and political crises.
Topic:: Security and Terrorism
Political Geography:: United States, Middle East, Yemen, and Arab Countries

Author:: Christopher Boucek
Publication Date:: 04-2010
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Abstract:: Yemen's leaders consider their sporadic war against the Houthi rebels a conflict they can win and, in so doing, discourage southern secessionists—a more immediate threat to their hold on power and the nation's territorial integrity. Instead, this war in the North has exposed greater vulnerabilities for the regime, weakened the central government, and emboldened other threats to Yemeni and global stability such as al-Qaeda.
Topic:: Political Violence, Civil War, Islam, Armed Struggle, Insurgency, and Sectarian violence
Political Geography:: Yemen and Arabia

Author:: Christopher Boucek
Publication Date:: 04-2010
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Abstract:: Yemen's leaders consider their sporadic war against the Houthi rebels a conflict they can win and, in so doing, discourage southern secessionists—a more immediate threat to their hold on power and the nation's territorial integrity. Instead, this war in the North has exposed greater vulnerabilities for the regime, weakened the central government, and emboldened other threats to Yemeni and global stability such as al-Qaeda.
Topic:: War
Political Geography:: Yemen

Author:: Christopher Boucek
Publication Date:: 09-2009
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Abstract:: Yemen faces a great and growing number of challenges that endanger its political future and threaten its neighbors on the Arabian Peninsula. War, terror- ism, a deepening secessionist movement, and interconnected economic and demographic trends have the potential to overwhelm the Yemeni government, jeopardizing domestic stability and security across the region. Yemen's oil—the source of over 75 percent of its income—is quickly running out, and the country has no apparent way to transition to a post-oil economy. The dire economic situation makes it increasingly difficult for the government to deliver the funds needed to hold the country together.
Topic:: Security, Democratization, Development, Oil, and Insurgency
Political Geography:: Yemen and Arabia

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