Yemen: an Opportunity for Iran–Saudi Dialogue?

Esfandiary, Dina; Tabatabai, Ariane M.

doi:10.1080/0163660x.2016.1204415

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“…4, 2006. 65 Milani, 2006Esfandiary and Tabatabai, 2016;Juneau, 2016. 66 Wehrey, Thaler, et al, 2009, p. xiii. These geopolitical hypotheses are, of course, supported by the vast literature referenced earlier on the Iran-Iraq War (during which the Islamic Republic faced an existential threat) but also by the emergent literature focused on the post-2003 period, which is characterized by unprecedented overt and covert Iranian interventionism in its near abroad. First (and at the most basic level), there is a broad consensus in the literature that recent Iranian adventurism has, at least in part, been driven by genuine external threat perceptions.…”

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Iran's Military Interventions: Patterns, Drivers, and Signposts

Charap¹,

Geist²,

Frederick³

et al. 2021

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Section: Theoretical Drivers Of Iranian Military Interventionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Iran's Military Interventions: Patterns, Drivers, and Signposts

Charap¹,

Geist²,

Frederick³

et al. 2021

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“…Many conflicts have transformed into serious civil wars affecting the lives of millions of people, yet the UN has maintained its approach of appealing for restraint of combatants without any firm action. In the Saudi Arabia operation, the UN deputy spokesperson, Farhan Haq stated, "UN does not believe in military actions to resolve the Yemeni conflict" (Esfandiary & Tabatabai, 2016). The Security Council also failed to pass any resolution or directly condemn the military operation of Saudi Arabia in Yemen because of existing divisions among members of the Security Council regarding the importance of such an operation.…”

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Transnational Operations, International Reactions, and Legitimacy: The Case of Turkey and Saudi Arabia

Nyadera

Islam

2020

Contemporary Review of the Middle East

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Maintaining global peace and security remains an essential concern for many actors in the international system. To achieve this goal, both states and international organizations commend that action needs to be taken against perceived threats to national and international security. However, how to respond to these threats continues to divide the world. The declining role of the UN in peace enforcement, emergence of non-state actors, new forms of threats, and increasing unilateral actions by states have raised questions over the legitimacy of who, when, and how these actions can be taken. This article seeks to examine how international actors respond to transnational counterterrorism events. It adopts a comparative case study to discuss how regional and international actors reacted to Saudi Arabia’s Operation Decisive Storm in Yemen (2015) and Turkey’s Operation Peace Spring in Northern Syria (2019). It draws important similarities in the justification of both countries’ actions and the varying responses and attitudes these countries have received for their actions. The study identifies the lack of international consensus on transnational counterterrorism as a catalyst in the crisis being witnessed in crisis resolution. Factors such as timing, universality of the threat, prevailing circumstances, actors involved, and mode of operation shape international response on transnational actions.

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“…In addition, political instability has increased as existing institutions that have been seen as ineffectual and corrupt by residents are unsupported [35,36]. Concurrently, Yemen has faced a wave of regional political challenges from Morocco to Afghanistan, which have catalyzed polarizing and sometimes violent changes, exacerbated by investments from military powers conducting a struggle for regional power by proxy [37][38][39].…”

Section: The Few Crisis In Yemenmentioning

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Defining the Nature of the Nexus: Specialization, Connectedness, Scarcity, and Scale in Food–Energy–Water Management

Katz

Padowski

Goldsby

et al. 2020

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There is an increasing appreciation that food–energy–water (FEW) nexus problems are approaching criticality in both the developing and developed world. As researchers and managers attempt to address these complex resource management issues, the concept of the FEW nexus has generated a rapidly growing footprint in global sustainability discourse. However, this momentum in the FEW nexus space could be better guided if researchers could more clearly identify what is and is not a FEW problem. Without this conceptual clarity, it can be difficult to defend the position that FEW innovations will produce desired outcomes and avoid unintended consequences. Here we examine the growing FEW nexus scholarship to critically evaluate what features are necessary to define a FEW nexus. This analysis suggests that the FEW nexus differs from sector-focused natural resource or sustainability problems in both complexity and stakes. It also motivates two new foci for research: the identification of low-dimension indexes of FEW system status and approaches for identifying boundaries of specific FEW nexuses.

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Yemen: an Opportunity for Iran–Saudi Dialogue?

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Iran's Military Interventions: Patterns, Drivers, and Signposts

Iran's Military Interventions: Patterns, Drivers, and Signposts

Transnational Operations, International Reactions, and Legitimacy: The Case of Turkey and Saudi Arabia

Defining the Nature of the Nexus: Specialization, Connectedness, Scarcity, and Scale in Food–Energy–Water Management

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