Adam Baron is a former director for research and analysis at the Sanaa Center for Strategic Studies.
Baron is a regular commentator on Yemeni affairs for media outlets including Al Jazeera English, CNN, Foreign Policy and the BBC, and between 2011 and 2014 was the Yemen correspondent for The Economist, the Christian Science Monitor and McClatchy Newspapers.
He holds a bachelor of arts in religion and Arab studies from Williams College and a masters degree in international peace and security from the Department of War Studies at King’s College, London.
Adam's latest contributions
Trump and the Yemen war
Under the Obama administration, United States policy toward Yemen was largely driven by regional concerns and counter-terrorism initiatives, with the drone campaign targeting Al Qaeda leaders in … Read more
The politics driving Yemen’s rising sectarianism
The current armed conflict in Yemen began, essentially, as a domestic struggle for power between political and tribal factions. This reality ran contrary to the conventional narrative in the … Read more
