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building a better yemen - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

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About the Author<br />

Charles sChmitz is an associate professor of Geography at Towson<br />

University in Baltimore, Maryland, where he has taught since 1999. Schmitz<br />

is a specialist on the Middle East and Yemen. He began his academic career<br />

as a Fulbright Scholar and American Institute <strong>for</strong> Yemeni Studies Fellow in<br />

Yemen in the early 1990s. Schmitz’s current research interests include the<br />

political economy of development in Yemen, international law and counterterrorism<br />

policy, international governance and failing states, and the sociology<br />

of contemporary Yemeni society. Currently, Schmitz is president of the<br />

American Institute <strong>for</strong> Yemeni Studies and a member of the executive board of<br />

the Council of American Overseas Research Centers.<br />

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