Yemen’s Enduring Crisis

Helen Lackner speaks on Yemen’s Enduring Crisis. Dr Michael Willis is chairing. This video is also available with accessibility features as a podcast at http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/middl... This is a recording of a live webinar held on Friday 11th March 2022. Abstract: As the 7th anniversary of the full-scale Yemeni war approaches, Helen Lackner will update the seminar on recent events, providing a brief analysis of the origins of the war and its most significant developments and addressing the main constraints and perspectives for the future. While focusing on the domestic aspects of the situation, she will put them in the regional context and also address the role of the international allies of the major parties involved. Helen Lackner has a long association with the Oxford Middle East Centre. She is an associate researcher at SOAS University of London and a Visiting Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), as well as a TNI associate. She has worked in and on Yemen for close to half a century, participating in development projects particularly in the rural sector, as well as teaching and research. The second updated and increased edition of Yemen in Crisis, the Road to War will be published in the summer. In June, Routledge will publish her Yemen, Poverty and Conflict as part of its series on the Contemporary Middle East. She has published numerous chapters and papers on different aspects of Yemeni society and politics in recent years and contributes regularly to Arab Digest, Oxford Analytica and Orient XXI. She is starting work on a new book on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Dr Michael Willis is Director of the Middle East Centre at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford and King Mohammed VI Fellow in Moroccan and Mediterranean Studies. His research interests focus on the politics, modern history and international relations of the central Maghreb states (Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco). He is the author of Politics and Power in the Maghreb: Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco from Independence to the Arab Spring (Hurst and Oxford University Press, 2012) and The Islamist Challenge in Algeria: A Political History (Ithaca and New York University Press, 1997) and co-editor of Civil Resistance in the Arab Spring: Triumphs and Disasters (Oxford University Press, 2015). Join us for our MEC live webinars – registration essential; details available from Middle East Centre Events, St Antony's College or subscribe to our weekly e-mailing newsletter by emailing [email protected] and follow us on Twitter @OxfordMEC Middle East Centre, St Antony's College, University of Oxford Middle East Centre | St Antony's College (ox.ac.uk) https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/research-ce...