Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Dr. Christopher Boucek
Christopher Boucek is an Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Middle East Program. The following is excerpted from his statement during a February 3, 2010, House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Yemen. Yemen is beset by a host of challenges that endanger both its domestic stability and regional security. The United States and the international community must act now, before conditions deteriorate further, to help Yemen meet these challenges. While Yemen has survived crises in the past, they have tended to be singular events, while the many problems it now faces are unprecedented in range and scope. The…
