الصراع السياسي في اليمن و تأثيره على باب المندب

الملخص EN

Yemen is a country of strategic importance located in the Arabian Peninsula, overlooking the Bab al-Mandab Strait, and enjoying enormous economic potential thanks to its large workforce, long coastal line, and its agricultural and hydrocarbon resources.

As the Arab Sea region and its two strategic approaches, the Strait of Hormuz and Bab al-Mandab, is a very vital area for the international maritime port, through which most of the international commercial and military shipping lines pass through it.

This region has not recently led with its international strategic importance, rather it has always been so.

The Suez Canal, in the middle of the nineteenth century, contributed to increasing the pace of international trade and shortening the maritime distance between Europe, India and the Far East.

However, this was only an enhancement of the strategic importance inherited from ancient times.

The Arab East is only a focal point in the lines of cultural and commercial relations, from As it is a crossroads between East and West.The focal points on global sailing lines were viewed as bottlenecks, especially for oil exports, which are the most important and dangerous at the present time, given that the Arab Gulf region is the main source of energy supplies in the world, given the passage of 61% of global energy supplies, i.e.

what Equivalent to 58.9 million barrels per day out of the 96.7 million barrels total global energy demand.

Keywords: legal and strategic