Red Sea Notes provides analysis of important political, economic, and social developments in the strategically vital Red Sea basin. Our blog ventures beyond the latest headlines, to provide theoretically informed, empirically grounded insights into a rapidly changing region.  Always provocative, yet consistently accurate, Red Sea Notes grant the sophisticated reader a window into the most crucial of regional ecosystems.Red Sea Notes are written by Alden Young and Michael Woldemariam, two Princeton trained PhD’s with substantial on-the ground research experience in the greater Red Sea region.