TY  - JOUR
T1  - United States-Saudi Arabia Arms Deal and Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen
AU - Ifeanyichukwu Michael, Abada AU - Chukwuemeka Chukwu, Quentin AU - Paul Hezekiah, Omeh AU - Okechukwu Jonathan, Asikason 
JO  - The Social Sciences
VL  - 15
IS  - 3
SP  - 128
EP  - 134
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1818-5800
DO  - sscience.2020.128.134
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2020.128.134
KW  - Diplomacy
KW  -arms deal
KW  -humanitarian crisis
KW  -civil war
KW  -National interest
AB  - The abidance of United States-Saudi Arabia
Arms deals in spite of its rising international
condemnation is sending shock waves in the international
system. That President Trump vetoed the bill that aimed
to halt the deal against the backdrop of commission of
crimes against humanity in Yemen by Saudi coalition
forces using the American-made weapons to fight
Iran-backed Houthi Rebels as well as evidences of
diversion of such arms to Al Qaeda-linked fighters and
hard-line Salafi militias in the Yemen is puzzling for a
country that pontificates on liberal values and observance
of fundamental human rights. Thus, the objective of this
study therefore is to interrogate the nexus between the
arms deal and the humanitarian crisis in Yemen in the
context of individual level of analysis. Through the aid of
realist theoretical paradigm, documentary method of data
collection and content analysis, the study found that the
Yemeni crisis rather than being a sectarian crisis is a
power politics by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and that
the duo personalities of president Trump and Crown
Prince Muhammad Bin Saud are engendering the crisis.
In order to stem the tide of this phenomenon, the study
recommends amongst other things, immediate suspension
of arms sale and logistics supports to the Saudi led
coalition and the deployment of peace keeping forces
by UN.
ER  -