Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies (CHRHS)

Oil Politics and the Yemeni Civil War

Wednesday, November 16, 2016

6:00pm – 7:30pm

Wilson Hall 309

Join Students for Responsible Policies in Yemen for a lecture from former Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Chas Freeman on America's role in the ongoing Yemeni Civil War. Ambassador Freeman will cover oil politics, the arms trade, the US-Saudi relationship, and other factors that have drawn the United States into the Yemeni conflict, and will give his take on the moral and strategic questions posed by American and Saudi military engagement in Yemen.