Stacey
@philbrickyadav.bsky.social
Professor, coffee drinker, civil actor, daily dog parker. Author on peacebuilding in Yemen: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/yemen-in-the-shadow-of-transition-9780197678367?cc=us&lang=en&
The main case studies are from Nicaragua, Liberia, and Uganda, and my seminar has been discussing whether the argument could (or should) extend to cases like Houthi-held areas of Yemen or Somaliland. Rich fuel for discussion.
When Rebels Win by Kai M. Thaler | Paperback | Cornell University Press
In When Rebels Win, Kai M. Thaler explores why victorious rebel groups govern in strikingly different ways. Many assume civil wars destroy state capacity. In the Democratic Republic of Congo and Libya...
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November 28, 2025 at 10:38 PM
The main case studies are from Nicaragua, Liberia, and Uganda, and my seminar has been discussing whether the argument could (or should) extend to cases like Houthi-held areas of Yemen or Somaliland. Rich fuel for discussion.
I'm totally kidding. It's because I read too quickly and there was a definite article in the original text that I missed. It said "run by *the* US-designated terrorist group" but I have been reading all day and I read too fast. Language. It means stuff.
November 12, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I'm totally kidding. It's because I read too quickly and there was a definite article in the original text that I missed. It said "run by *the* US-designated terrorist group" but I have been reading all day and I read too fast. Language. It means stuff.
Maybe it's because the WSJ's Africa editor and MENA editor didn't check with each other? 4/
November 12, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Maybe it's because the WSJ's Africa editor and MENA editor didn't check with each other? 4/
Maybe the difference is because there's an internationally-recognized GoY that has been displaced but still has access to means of self-representation and can challenge the Houthis' ability to self-present as being in control of "Yemen" as a whole. 3/
November 12, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Maybe the difference is because there's an internationally-recognized GoY that has been displaced but still has access to means of self-representation and can challenge the Houthis' ability to self-present as being in control of "Yemen" as a whole. 3/
Is it because the Houthis only control part of the country? (When AQAP had de facto territorial control in Hadramawt for a year in 2015-2016 it attracted less attention, I think, than either of these cases, but I could be wrong.) 2/
November 12, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Is it because the Houthis only control part of the country? (When AQAP had de facto territorial control in Hadramawt for a year in 2015-2016 it attracted less attention, I think, than either of these cases, but I could be wrong.) 2/
Here’s the SC statement on the threats their folks received in response to their editorial. Tldr; space for civil actors is under threat in all parts of Yemen, not only in the ways that make it to the pages of @nytimes.com or @wsj.com
Statement: The Sana’a Center Condemns the Incitement Campaign by the Islah Party and its Aligned Military Elements - Sana'a Center For Strategic Studies
The Sana’a Center for Strategic Studies strongly condemns the incitement campaign directed against the Center and its Chairperson, Maged al-Madhaji—a vicious online smear campaign that culminated in a...
sanaacenter.org
November 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Here’s the SC statement on the threats their folks received in response to their editorial. Tldr; space for civil actors is under threat in all parts of Yemen, not only in the ways that make it to the pages of @nytimes.com or @wsj.com
Almost all non-specialist coverage of Yemen is focused on the Houthis and if there is discussion of the rest of Yemen, it aggregates the whole. Policy folks don’t do this, I know, but policy specialists are increasingly not shaping policy. So the non-specialist discourse matters more than it has. 2/
November 8, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Almost all non-specialist coverage of Yemen is focused on the Houthis and if there is discussion of the rest of Yemen, it aggregates the whole. Policy folks don’t do this, I know, but policy specialists are increasingly not shaping policy. So the non-specialist discourse matters more than it has. 2/
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What's also wild (derogatory) is that if many media outlets are making their journalists use AI to write & edit, or replacing journalists w/ AI to generate content, then you basically have social scientists' LLMs coding AI-generated material, w/o the chance to spot it as such the way a human might.
October 27, 2025 at 9:21 AM
What's also wild (derogatory) is that if many media outlets are making their journalists use AI to write & edit, or replacing journalists w/ AI to generate content, then you basically have social scientists' LLMs coding AI-generated material, w/o the chance to spot it as such the way a human might.
I vividly recall a site visit for a program my school was considering as a partner in Oman. Arabic instruction was top-shelf but I couldn’t believe the USG students held a 7/4 bonfire on the beach and invited their Omani tutors for pork BBQ. Just securing the pork became a week-long preoccupation.
October 20, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I vividly recall a site visit for a program my school was considering as a partner in Oman. Arabic instruction was top-shelf but I couldn’t believe the USG students held a 7/4 bonfire on the beach and invited their Omani tutors for pork BBQ. Just securing the pork became a week-long preoccupation.
They've updated your *title*? As if that was the relevant issue here?
September 12, 2025 at 6:02 PM
They've updated your *title*? As if that was the relevant issue here?
This seems like a form of journalistic malpractice, honestly, and I think you're being awfully generous not to name them directly.
September 12, 2025 at 5:44 PM
This seems like a form of journalistic malpractice, honestly, and I think you're being awfully generous not to name them directly.