Abaad Studies & Research Center has released a strategic research package for 2025, consisting of three main reports: The Annual Strategic Assessment of Abaad Studies 2025, The Annual Report on International Think Tank Coverage of Yemen, and Abaad Analytical Monitor: The 2025 Annual Review of Yemen’s Political and Security Trends.
The three reports provide an integrated reading of Yemen’s developments throughout 2025. They show that the Yemeni crisis is no longer limited to confrontation with the Houthis, but has expanded into a broader crisis of statehood, fragmented decision-making, economic fragility, competing centers of power, and rising regional and international stakes, particularly in the Red Sea and Bab al-Mandab.
Methodologically, the package is based on a strategic reading of Abaad’s studies published during the year, a thematic coding of twelve monthly files from the “Abaad Translations” series, and a monthly analytical review of Yemen-related developments from January to December 2025. The reports combine monitoring, policy analysis, numerical indicators, infographics, and strategic matrices designed to serve decision-makers, researchers, and policy institutions.
The key conclusion is that 2025 marked Yemen’s transition from a phase focused mainly on pressuring the Houthis to a more complex stage centered on the question: Who can protect the Yemeni state from fragmentation? The reports argue that the greatest risk lies in the convergence of three factors: continued Houthi military capabilities, a divided and economically weakened legitimate authority, and local and regional projects that threaten the unity of state decision-making.
Abaad’s reports recommend making state restoration the central priority for 2026, unifying the Presidential Leadership Council’s decision-making, developing a Yemeni national strategy for Red Sea security, disrupting smuggling and financing networks, treating the economy as a national security priority, addressing Hadramawt and Al-Mahra as sovereign files, and linking any future political settlement to weapons control and resource governance.
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