Yemen In Crisis

'An outstanding book that provides answers to all of the questions raised by Yemen's many crises since 2011. Written with compassion and insight, Lackner confirms her standing as the foremost authority on Yemeni politics at work today.' -- Eugene Rogan, University of Oxford
'An eminently valuable account of Yemen's modern history and current travails by someone who has made it her life's work to understand the country and its people.' -- Roger Owen, Harvard University
'Helen Lackner is arguably the best non-Yemeni expert of Yemen, a country where she first sojourned in the 1970s acquiring since then a unique and multifaceted expertise. This book is the best compact presentation of the background and dynamics of the social and political explosion that turned Yemen into the worst humanitarian crisis of today's world.' -- Gilbert Achcar, author of The People Want and Morbid Symptoms
'A matchless geo-political profile of the country, its history, its economic structures, and above all, its people. She knows the country better than the gangs in Foggy Bottom and Whitehall, not to mention Mossad operatives or the other spooks of the international community based in Riyadh.' -- Tariq Ali, New Left Review
'This timely book analyzes the deep roots of the crisis that gripped Yemen even before the destructive war against it created the world's worst humanitarian crisis. Lackner is superbly equipped to trace the causes for the failure and collapse of the Yemeni state, under the inexorable pressures of neo-liberalism and regional and global rivalries.' -- Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia University