Behaviors
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Primary Currencies
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Government policies
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Military power
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coercion
deterrence
protection
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threats
force
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coercive diplomacy
war*
alliance**
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Economic power
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inducement
coercion
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payments
sanctions
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aid
bribes
sanctions
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Soft power
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attraction
agenda setting
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values
culture
policies
institutions
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public diplomacy
bilateral and multilateral diplomacy
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*Types of war: rebellion, insurrection, insurgency, guerrilla war, civil war, and regional war, systemic war, global war, world war, “conventional war”, “unconventional war”, limited war, total war, cold war, proxy war, hybrid war (warfare) and etc.
**RAND categorizes alliances as tactical, historical, natural, overlapping, and changing [Ghez J. Alliances in the 21st Century. Implications for the US-European partnership. Occasional paper. – RAND Europe, 2011].
YEMEN
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Behaviors
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Primary Currencies
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Government policies
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Military power
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Again, the concern is whether United States military members could be prosecuted for aiding Saudi Arabia in their campaign in Yemen. (Borger, 2017). For example, as noted in a Guardian report in November of 2016 (Borger, 2017), “In a letter to secretary of state John Kerry and defence secretary Ash Carter, US congressman Ted Lieu, a former air force lawyer, said the administration’s insistence that it is not taking part in target selection for coalition sorties – many of which have hit hospitals and schools – does not excuse the US from legal responsibility.” He also said that “I find it deeply troubling that the U.S. apparently has no advanced knowledge of what targets will be struck by jets that are refueled by U.S. personnel with U.S. tankers…” (Lieu, 2017). At this time, roughly 1 in every three Saudi airstrikes were not targeting Houthi fighters, but rather, civilians (Salon, 2016). Again, the United States continues to offer substantial support to Saudi Arabia as they continue the fighting in Yemen.
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Saudi Arabia has been one of the most active international actors in the conflict in Yemen. In fact, given the direct military role that Saudi Arabia has taken, the “civil” war that was in Yemen has now turned the conflict in Yemen into an international war.
Saudi Arabia has a long history of interest in the politics of Yemen. Interestingly, Saudi Arabia initially supported the Southern rebellion in 1994, but over time, improved relations with Saleh in Northern Yemen (Salisbury, 2015).
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According to reports in late November, 2016, “[T]he so-called National Salvation Government, formed on Monday, will be headed by Abdul Aziz Habtoor, a politician who had defected from Hadi’s government and joined the Houthi coalition last year, according to the movement’s news agency Saba” (CNN, 2016).
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Economic power
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Unlike many regional oil producers, Yemen relies heavily on foreign oil companies that have production-sharing agreements with the government. Income from oil production constitutes 70 to 75 percent of government revenue and about 90 percent of exports.
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