Valdai Club

The conflict in Yemen is different from the other crises created by the notorious “Arab Spring.” If Syria, Libya and Tunisia were stable states before the beginning of “colour revolutions,” Yemen since its unification in 1990 went through a series of conflicts and internal political crises which often turned into armed clashes. At the same time, Yemen remained one of the poorest Arab states, where all these conflict situations happened in the most negative way.

The question of Saudi Arabia’s future came to the fore after King Salman assumed power in Saudi Arabia in 2015 and his son Crown Prince Mohammad launched large-scale reforms in the kingdom. Saudi Arabia has been closed to the world, and the international community knew very little about life there.