A Few Observations on Omani-Yemeni Relations since the 1960s - London

Background

Helen Lackner has worked as a consultant in social aspects of rural development in over thirty countries in the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Europe. She has spent the past four decades researching Yemen, working in the country for fifteen years. Lackner is currently Associate Researcher at the London Middle East Institute at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and was the 2016 Sir William Luce Fellow at Durham University. The editor of Journal of the British-Yemeni Society, she is also a regular contributor to Oxford Analytica’s briefs and openDemocracy. Her publications include Yemen in Crisis: Autocracy, Neo-Liberalism and the Disintegration of a State and Why Yemen Matters: A Society in Transition (editor). 

Brief Survey of Omani-Yemeni relations 1970-2020

Helen Lackner has been involved with Yemen for almost half a century and the peninsula even longer. She will outline the transformations in relations between the Sultanate of Oman and the different Yemeni states during this period, focusing on the internal and international reasons for the changes on both sides. She will put these in the context of the social, political and economic contexts of the two countries.