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7 tweets from NEW paper: Yemen: National Chaos, Local Order

1. Yemen has become a ‘chaos state’: a place where the central government has lost control of large segments of the territory over which it is nominally sovereign.

2. Yet ‘chaos’ is a relative term: although Yemen indeed appears to be chaotic from the outside, it contains its own internal logic, economies and political ecosystems.

3. The groups that hold the balance of power do not correspond directly to those engaged to date by the UN.

4. Arms and other illicit goods are traded so widely that prices for guns and ammunition have fallen nationwide since the war began.