The Proxy War in yemen

Abstract

Under the influence of the so-called Arab Spring, large mass protests broke out in Yemen against the totalitarian rule of President Ali Abdullah Saleh. The Houthi movement (Ansar Allah) played a leading role in those protests that forced President Saleh to step down in favor of his deputy Abd Rabbo Mansour in 2011. The new president was not successful in putting an end to the turmoil. The situation witnessed a deterioration in the country, and then led to the rise of the Houthis, in the year 2014, with a military invasion of the capital, Sana'a, and the removal of President Hadi, Saudi Arabia, which the ousted Yemeni president resorted to, did not remain silent, but formed and led a military coalition aimed at ending the Houthis' control over Sana'a and other parts of the country. revolution from Yemen and the reinstatement of President Hadi to his position, and thus the country entered into a war of proxy Its flames are still raging today.This research aims to study and analyze the factors behind the ignition and escalation of the war that attracted other regional and international parties to its arena.The research is based on Amos Fox's theory of the proxy war. for analysis and conclusion.It is assumed that this war cannot lead to To resolve the conflict in Yemen, and the realistic solution is for the regional parties to force their local allies to give up their arms and sit down to the negotiating table. The difficult circumstances that those regional parties are going through, such as the spread of the Corona epidemic and the drop in oil prices, may push them to delinquency to peace, but there is nothing on the horizon so far that indicates the imminent end of this war that It led to one of the biggest human tragedies in modern history.