Saudi’s strategy for Yemen: a stick for the southerners, a carrot for Europe’s defense ministries

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Saudi Arabia’s Yemen policy master, Riyadh’s ambassador Mohammed al-Jaber, believes in stick-and-carrot diplomacy—he shows the stick to Yemen’s dissenters and the carrot to Europe’s defense ministries. And it’s a contradiction that now runs straight through Europe’s own legal order. Al‐Jaber is no ordinary envoy. Since 2014 he has combined the post of ambassador with a [...] The post Saudi’s strategy for Yemen: a stick for the southerners, a carrot for Europe’s defense ministries appeared first on Modern Diplomacy .