The Houthi Challenge to Maritime Security
On March 12, AGSIW hosted a discussion on the Houthi challenge to maritime security in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.
On March 12, AGSIW hosted a discussion on the Houthi challenge to maritime security in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.
The Houthis see the attacks in the Red Sea as part of a broader political project that goes back decades.
The United States appears overly confident that military strikes will put the Houthi threat back in the box.
The United States has not developed adequate responses for dealing with hybrid groups like the Houthis.
The absence of a functioning state exacerbates Yemen’s environmental disasters, compounding the humanitarian crisis caused by years of conflict.
If the Houthis are attacking Israel, their local rivals will be less inclined to attack them.
Would South Yemen be a state for Southerners, or would it be the anti-Houthi Yemeni state?
On October 26, AGSIW hosted a discussion on the prospects for the end of the conflict in Yemen.
Saudi Arabia’s new, exit-focused strategy for Yemen implicitly weakens the country’s formal institutions and provides greater political leverage for the Houthis, imposing indirect costs that could undercut prospects for a broader U.N.-led Yemeni peace process.
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