Helen Lackner
Biographic Data
| ID | 607177 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helen Lackner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helen |
| FAMILY NAME | Lackner |
| SIGNATURE | LACKNER H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Gulf Committee |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6993-2610 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Yemen at the Crossroads: Crisis and Reconstruction
The title suggests this 11-chapter book is not primarily focused on the current war and peace issues in Yemen but, with a foreword by a long-standing UN staff member focusing on the peace process a...
From Local Governance to Constitution Building: Yemen after 10 Years of Conflict
Ten years into the devastating conflict between Ansar Allah and Yemen’s internationally recognized government, governance has undergone significant transformations. In 2025, local and substate governance structures across Yemen present a diverse and evolving landscape, indicative of the complex realities on the ground. This report delves into the myriad forms of governance that exist in Yemen in 2025 and examines some of the future constitutional…
Saudi Arabia: A Modern History; Kingdom of Football: Saudi Arabia and the Remaking of World Soccer
The Tale of a Feud: Domination, Resistance, and Agency in Highland Yemen
In Search of Identity: The Hadhrami Arabs in the Netherlands East Indies and Indonesia (1900-1950)
The Yemeni Civil War: The Arab Spring, State Formation and Internal Instability; A Political Anthropology of Yemen, Concept and Critique
Yemen at a Crossroads: What Remains of Arabia Felix?; The Logic of Cooperation in Autocracies: Political Opposition in the Third Yemeni Republic
David B. Roberts. Security Politics in the Gulf Monarchies: Continuity Amid Change; Tobias Borck. Seeking Stability Amidst Disorder: the Foreign Policies of Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar, 2010-20
Reconstructing Yemen: Long-Term and War-Related Constraints to Socio-Economic Development
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates: Foreign Policy and Strategic Alliances in an Uncertain World
Charity in Saudi Arabia: Civil Society under Authoritarianism
Additional informationNotes on contributorsHelen LacknerHelen Lackner is a rural development consultant with long experience in the Gulf. She is the author of A House Built on Sand: Political Economy of Saudi Arabia (Ithaca, 1978) and is currently working on a new book about the country
International Relations
Yemen: Poverty and Conflict
South Yemen’s Independence Struggle, Generations of Resistance by Anne-Linda Amira Augustin & South Yemen: Gateway to the world? by Abdul Galil Shaif
These two books are by South Yemenis who are committed to returning Yemen to the two states existing prior to unification in 1990. Both authors have strong European connections and their books have emerged, in part at least, from PhD theses. However, they are extremely different in scope, approach and style; the first retains an academic and analytical approach focused on the struggle of southerners for independence in the last decade; the second…
Yemen
Global Warming, the Environmental Crisis and Social Justice in Yemen
This article summarises the major environmental and social justice issues facing Yemen, with a discussion of climate change, the impact of the war, oil extraction practices and water use. It also includes two brief case studies as examples of the impact of these issues in worsening inequality: first, the series of disastrous floods in 2020 and, second, the situation in Soqotra
Yemen and the Gulf States: The Making of a Crisis
The People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen: Unique Socialist Experiment in The Arab World at a Time of World Revolutionary Fervour
This essay examines the twenty-three years’ existence of the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen in the context of the regional and world Left revolutionary and anticolonial movements of the second half of the twentieth century. The essay first examines the divisions of the liberation movement between followers of Nasserism and those who were influenced by the left wing of the Movement of Arab Nationalists. The 1967 Arab defeat by Israel and th…
Rebuilding Yemen: Political, Economic and Social Challenges
Monsoon Revolution: Republicans, Sultans, and Empires in Oman 1965–1976, by Abdel Razzaq Takriti
Relations of Production
Halliday Fred, Revolution and Foreign Policy, The Case of South Yemen 1967–1987 (Cambridge: (Cambridge University Press, 1990). Pp. 131
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A House Built on Sand: A Political Economy of Saudi Arabia
Relations of Production: Marxist Approaches to Economic Anthropology
Bahrain: Political Development in a Modernizing Society
Journal Article Bahrain: Political Development in a Modernizing Society Get access Bahrain: Political Development in a Modernizing Society. By Emile A. Nakhleh. Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books, Heath. 1976. (Distrib. in UK by Teakfield, Farnborough.) 191 pp. £9.45. Helen Lackner Helen Lackner Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 53, Issue 4, October 1977, Pages 705–706, https://d…
Bahrain: Political Development in a Modernizing Society
Journal Article Bahrain: Political Development in a Modernizing Society Get access Bahrain: Political Development in a Modernizing Society. By Emile A. Nakhleh. Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books, Heath. 1976. (Distrib. in UK by Teakfield, Farnborough.) 191 pp. £9.45. Helen Lackner Helen Lackner Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 53, Issue 4, October 1977, Pages 705–706, https://d…
Global Warming, the Environmental Crisis and Social Justice in Yemen
This article summarises the major environmental and social justice issues facing Yemen, with a discussion of climate change, the impact of the war, oil extraction practices and water use. It also includes two brief case studies as examples of the impact of these issues in worsening inequality: first, the series of disastrous floods in 2020 and, second, the situation in Soqotra
Revolution in the Gulf
The Saudi Arabian Economy
Bahrain: Political Development in a Modernizing Society
Journal Article Bahrain: Political Development in a Modernizing Society Get access Bahrain: Political Development in a Modernizing Society. By Emile A. Nakhleh. Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books, Heath. 1976. (Distrib. in UK by Teakfield, Farnborough.) 191 pp. £9.45. Helen Lackner Helen Lackner Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 53, Issue 4, October 1977, Pages 705–706, https://d…
A House Built on Sand: A Political Economy of Saudi Arabia
Relations of Production: Marxist Approaches to Economic Anthropology
Halliday Fred, Revolution and Foreign Policy, The Case of South Yemen 1967–1987 (Cambridge: (Cambridge University Press, 1990). Pp. 131
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Relations of Production
Monsoon Revolution: Republicans, Sultans, and Empires in Oman 1965–1976, by Abdel Razzaq Takriti
Rebuilding Yemen: Political, Economic and Social Challenges
Yemen and the Gulf States: The Making of a Crisis
The People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen: Unique Socialist Experiment in The Arab World at a Time of World Revolutionary Fervour
This essay examines the twenty-three years’ existence of the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen in the context of the regional and world Left revolutionary and anticolonial movements of the second half of the twentieth century. The essay first examines the divisions of the liberation movement between followers of Nasserism and those who were influenced by the left wing of the Movement of Arab Nationalists. The 1967 Arab defeat by Israel and th…
Global Warming, the Environmental Crisis and Social Justice in Yemen
This article summarises the major environmental and social justice issues facing Yemen, with a discussion of climate change, the impact of the war, oil extraction practices and water use. It also includes two brief case studies as examples of the impact of these issues in worsening inequality: first, the series of disastrous floods in 2020 and, second, the situation in Soqotra
International Relations
Yemen: Poverty and Conflict
South Yemen’s Independence Struggle, Generations of Resistance by Anne-Linda Amira Augustin & South Yemen: Gateway to the world? by Abdul Galil Shaif
These two books are by South Yemenis who are committed to returning Yemen to the two states existing prior to unification in 1990. Both authors have strong European connections and their books have emerged, in part at least, from PhD theses. However, they are extremely different in scope, approach and style; the first retains an academic and analytical approach focused on the struggle of southerners for independence in the last decade; the second…
Yemen
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates: Foreign Policy and Strategic Alliances in an Uncertain World
Charity in Saudi Arabia: Civil Society under Authoritarianism
Additional informationNotes on contributorsHelen LacknerHelen Lackner is a rural development consultant with long experience in the Gulf. She is the author of A House Built on Sand: Political Economy of Saudi Arabia (Ithaca, 1978) and is currently working on a new book about the country
Yemen at a Crossroads: What Remains of Arabia Felix?; The Logic of Cooperation in Autocracies: Political Opposition in the Third Yemeni Republic
David B. Roberts. Security Politics in the Gulf Monarchies: Continuity Amid Change; Tobias Borck. Seeking Stability Amidst Disorder: the Foreign Policies of Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar, 2010-20
Reconstructing Yemen: Long-Term and War-Related Constraints to Socio-Economic Development
From Local Governance to Constitution Building: Yemen after 10 Years of Conflict
Ten years into the devastating conflict between Ansar Allah and Yemen’s internationally recognized government, governance has undergone significant transformations. In 2025, local and substate governance structures across Yemen present a diverse and evolving landscape, indicative of the complex realities on the ground. This report delves into the myriad forms of governance that exist in Yemen in 2025 and examines some of the future constitutional…
Saudi Arabia: A Modern History; Kingdom of Football: Saudi Arabia and the Remaking of World Soccer
The Tale of a Feud: Domination, Resistance, and Agency in Highland Yemen
In Search of Identity: The Hadhrami Arabs in the Netherlands East Indies and Indonesia (1900-1950)
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