Saudi Interventions in Yemen: A Historical Comparison of Ontological Insecurity

This book explains the Saudi decision to launch a direct military intervention in Yemen in 2015 by comparing it with the monarchy’s response to Egyptian intervention into Yemen in 1962. It does so through the lens of domestic politics by tracing the monarchy’s response to the opposition in both time periods, and how this was informed by the different regional contexts of the 1960s and the 2011 Arab Spring.

The study argues that Saudi Arabia enhanced its own institutions, including a pan-Isl...