SAUDI ARABIAN’S MILITARY INTERVENTION IN YEMEN’S CONFLICT 2015
Abstract
This thesis aims to understand the reason of Saudi
Arabia‘s intervention in Yemeni conflict in 2015. Yemeni
conflict is the continuation of internal conflict but heated by
the Arab Spring in 2011 and reached the peak in 2014-2015.
This research uses the qualitative method. Data is analyzed by
first processing and then displaying in to be explored more
using qualitative method.
Using the instrument of geographic and political
element of international context in decision making process
and the concept of Responsibility to Protect (RtoP), the result
of this research shows that Saudi Arabia conducted
intervention by several reasons. The close relation between
Yemen and Saudi Arabia in terms of geography and politic is
highly influencing the decision. The increasing humanitarian
crisis and the failing state of Yemen also encouraged Saudi
Arabia to intervene under the principle of Responsibility to
Protect.