Author: April Longley Alley | Journal of Democracy

April Longley Alley is senior Arabian Peninsula analyst for the International Crisis Group. She writes extensively on Yemen and currently resides in Sana‘a.

Articles by April Longley Alley:

October 2013, Volume 24, Issue 4

Tracking the “Arab Spring”: Yemen Changes Everything… And Nothing

April Longley Alley

A long-ruling strongman president has been unseated by popular unrest and a negotiated transition is under way, but to many Yemenis this all appears to be a change more of appearance than of substance.

October 2010, Volume 21, Issue 4

Yemen’s Multiple Crises

April Longley Alley

Yemen today finds itself gripped by a set of crises that threatens its very unity as a country. Only a turn toward democratic dialogue offers a way out.

Books:

Democratization and Authoritarianism in the Arab World

Marc F. Plattner
Larry Diamond

The uprisings that swept the Arab world beginning in 2010 toppled four entrenched rulers and seemed to create a political opening in a region long impervious to democratization.