Why Yemen Matters: A Society in Transition

by Helen Lackner (Editor)

A multi-authored text suggesting solutions to Yemen's most pressing challenges as it seeks to implement a far-reaching and all-inclusive political and economic transition. Expert analysts who have worked in Yemen for decades provide innovative analysis of the country's major political crises. Why Yemen Matters covers politics, regional issues, economic development, and society and migration. Helen Lackner has worked as a consultant in social aspects of development in over thirty countries and specializes in rural issues, in particular water management, poverty alleviation, and gender and youth aspects. Lackner is also co-editor of Yemen into the Twenty First Continuity and Change .

Genres: Nonfiction, History, Politics, Middle East

352 pages, Paperback

First published February 10, 2014

Reviews

[KJ · Rating 5 out of 5]

The title of this collection of academic papers is deceiving; this book is not about how Yemen plays into some grand global scheme, but is more an exploration of various aspects of Yemeni history and society that make it the unique, fascinating country it is. I found the works done on the 2011 Yemeni revolution theatric works, the Yemeni diaspora in China, and migration patterns between Yemen and Ethiopia, Somalia, and Eritrea particularly fascinating.