Ambassador Barbara K. Bodine
Lecturer and Diplomat-in-Residence, Princeton University
Barbara K. Bodine is a lecturer and diplomat-in-residence at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. The following is excerpted from her statement during a January 20, 2010, Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Yemen. To borrow from a fellow Missourian, reports of Yemen’s demise are exaggerated. Depending on how we as well as the Yemeni Government and the Yemenis handle this next year, it could become a self-fulfilling prophesy. Yemen is not a failed state. It is fragile and faces challenges — economic, demographic, political, and security — that would sunder others. There are…
