Background: This research aims to explore the recommendations of the 2013 Lancet Series on maternal and child nutrition in the case study of Yemen (2013-2014), by answering the question “What mix of public interventions works best in a given context to reduce child stunting prev…
Existing scholarship suggests terrorism is an ineffective method of political contestation; groups rarely achieve their political objectives and are often disrupted by the security services. These findings invite us to look again at the dominant rational choice paradigm, which s…
As the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan continues in its tenth year, it is important to evaluate not only the short-term effectiveness, but also the long-term implications of lethal targeting – specifically the use of armed drone strikes – against high-value individuals. This paper e…
The United States may be losing the war against Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). The past five years have seen an increase in sophistication and scale of terrorist attacks and the group’s ideological message remains persuasive for many disenfranchised Yemenis. Terrorism…
Icebergs are melting in the Arctic. The Gulf of Mexico is warming and producing hurricanes such as Katrina. The delta of the southern United States is drying. And, Yemen will be the first country in modern history to experience a lack of accessible ground water, as soon as 2017 …
The Dhamar Plain is a region in the central highlands of Yemen where a disunited tribal population continually contended with a succession of invading states for its control over the course of the Islamic period. In order to better understand these processes of contentious subju…
Literature discussing counterterrorism, and, more broadly, military assistance, argues that this aid is unconditionally helpful to recipient states. Yet, in this paper I contend that military assistance puts recipients in a dilemma. Whereas literature has established that donors…
The purpose of this study was to establish a research base from which strategies could be developed for improving science education in Yemen. The study measured the achievement in general science of Yemeni students attending primary, preparatory, and secondary schools, and their…
Yemen sits at the crossroads of human trade and migration routes critical to understanding many aspects of recent human evolution. An understanding of the population history of Yemen is important for fully appreciating the role that this human corridor has played in human evolut…
This dissertation argues that Ethiopia had a greater role in South Arabian history in late pre-Islamic times than scholars have hitherto believed. The two states involved in the power struggle in the southern Red Sea during this period were the Christian kingdom of Aksum in nort…
Yemen’s exercise with democracy started with the unification of Yemen Arab Republic and the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen in 1990, where the ruling parties acknowledged that to retain power, they had to share power. This window of opportunity instituted a hopeful democra…
Despite decades of archaeological excavations in the western Wādī Hadramūt and its tributaries, when compared to its neighbors in Southwestern Arabia, the Pre-Islamic kingdom of Hadramūt is poorly understood. The interior Wādī Hadramūt of the Islamic period is even less well kno…
This dissertation explores the spatial construction of modern Yemen, based on a comparison between colonial indirect rule in the south and the rule of the Zaydi Imamate in the north in the period between 1839 and 1934. Drawing on archival research in Britain and Yemen, this stud…
The concealment of the Fatimid imam al-Tayyib following the assassination of his father al-Āmir in 524/1130 was a major turning point for the Yemeni Ismā`īlīs. They had to manage their lives and religion without the direct guidance of their infallible imam. This affected every a…
Until present, the Palaeolithic period in southern Arabia has been more or less terra incognita. Within the last decade, evolutionary scientists have begun to recognize the key role this region must have played in the origin of modern humans. Recent discoveries in the field of g…
Yemen is a water scarce country. Like many other developing countries, it is constrained by a lack of natural resources and finds it difficult to secure sufficient water for human consumption and for agricultural irrigation. This raises the question of how to design actions and …
If the post-September 11th era is to bear the imprint of a succession of setbacks to the human rights paradigm epitomized by Abu Ghraib's arresting images, the era should also be marked by human rights' re-emergence at the fore of local and global contests and consciousness. Thr…
Scope and method of study . This descriptive exploratory study utilized survey research for collecting data pertinent to the views of Yemeni educators about the need for curriculum reform and their attitudes toward Western reform initiatives. Relationship between these views and…