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This chapter unpacks how the Yemen conflict evolved from a set of largely deep-seated, multifaceted, and unresolved issues during Saleh’s 33-year tenure into a complex armed conflict and foreign military intervention, passing through a fragile transitional peace process that ended with a Houthi coup d’état on September 21, 2014. Interestingly, the internal issues that made Yemen receptive to the Arab Spring continue to aggravate, deepening grievances and local fragmentation, let alone that the combination of domestic and external factors that jeopardized the UN-endorsed, Gulf-backed transitional process continue to reoccur, albeit differently, posing serious wonders to a forthcoming peace agreement. The UN mediation’s departure from status quo ante bellum to the normalization of status quo, evident in the Stockholm Agreement,...
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Fakirah, I.G. (2020). Yemen Conflict. In: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11795-5_163-1
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