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Dossier
Trapped in War: Yemen, Three Years On
Eleonora Ardemagni
| 20 March 2018

On 13 June, the Saudi-led coalition started airstrikes on Hodeida, the biggest urban centre of Yemen’s Western, Red Sea coast. A city of 600.000 inhabitants, Hodeida is controlled by the Iranian-backed Huthi insurgents since 2015. Not only port revenues are the greatest source of income for their war economy, but 70% of Yemen’s imports enter through this critical port: will it remain open despite the clashes (more than a hundred of combatants have died so far in the city’s neighbourhood), as requested by the UN, or it will be closed or mined, further worsening the humanitarian crisis? Yemen’s anti-huthi forces, both loyalists and irregulars, led by the Special Forces of the United Arab Emirates, are fighting in the outskirts of Hodeida, while Saudi airstrikes cover the ground offensive. This is likely to be a turning-point in the Yemeni war, which entered its fourth year: what is the impact of the conflict on tribal, political, economic and military local structures? What has the trajectory of the conflict been before this battle? This ISPI Dossier assesses the original drivers and domestic implications of the Yemeni crisis.

Yemen's State (Re)building: a Tale of Too Many Obstacles
Osamah Al-Rawhani
The Sana’a Center for Strategic Studies (SCSS).
Tribes in Yemen: Dominant, but not a Single Bloc
Charles Schmitz
University of Towson, Maryland
Vague and Flexible: Explaining the Houthi Movement’s Resilience
Alexander Weissenburger
Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)
Yemen's Southern Secessionists Divided By Regional Identities
Franck Mermier
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Yemen's Military: From the Tribal Army to the Warlords
Eleonora Ardemagni
NATO Defense College Foundation and ISPI
Transnational Insecurity in the Gulf of Aden
Alexandra Lewis
University College London (UCL)
Yemen: the Sectarianization of a Political Conflict
Annalisa Perteghella
ISPI Research Fellow
Infographic
Yemen, Three Years On: Trapped in War
ISPI Analysis
The Yemeni Conflict. Genealogy, Game-Changers and Regional Implications
ISPI Analysis
From Insurgents to Hybrid Security Actors? Deconstructing Yemen's Huthi Movement

Read more:

Yemen: Turning the Page
The Houthi-Saudi Border Battle: An Obstacle to Peace in Yemen
Eleonora Ardemagni
ISPI Associate Research Fellow
Berenice in the Red Sea Rebus: What’s Still Vague in the Egypt-Saudi Alliance
Eleonora Ardemagni
ISPI and Catholic University of Milan
MED Dialogue with Prince Faisal Bin Farhan Al Saud
Egypt-Gulf Powers: Partners or Competitors?
Gawdat Bahgat
National Defense University
Saudi Arabia’s Peripheries in Times of Reform: The Local Puzzle
Eleonora Ardemagni
ISPI Associate Research Fellow

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Eleonora Ardemagni
ISPI Associate Research Fellow

 

 

 

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