What has not failed in Yemen over the generations? Super | Muhammad Al-Alai In a previous article I asked this question: What really failed in Yemen? I meant contemporary Yemen, where I denied a failure in the republican experience. If you say, "the republic has failed," it may mean that the republican idea is not suitable for the Yemeni environment, and that what Yemen is witnessing in this era is an inevitable result of the flaw and corruption inherent in the republican principle itself. Then the solution - logically - becomes to search for a better alternative principle, or to return to one of the old alternatives. I reject this opinion, its assumptions and implications. I have my reasons and arguments, and I have presented them in more than one article and study. This is not a boring ideological bigotry, as I am open to all theses and ideas. Whoever says that the collapse is due specifically to the failure of the republican model needs much stronger evidence than the mere occurrence of the collapse under the republic. States and kingdoms have always collapsed and disintegrated in Yemen's history, and the republican idea did not exist for us to blame it for failure. Although today I don't mind acknowledging the failure and collapse of what is bigger, more comprehensive and more dangerous than the system of government: the state in the broadest sense, and this includes the cracking and collapse of the pillars and foundations of national unity, both material and symbolic. The meaning of the word "state" in contemporary usage may mean a public authority, an institutional and administrative mechanism, a political entity with territory, sovereignty and international personality, a constitutional and legal system, or the organized existence of a group of people (nation); This may indicate these elements in combination. There is a general meaning and a specific meaning. The context determines what meaning we want. When we talk about the rise or fall of a country, we mean all or part of the above. However, let's assume for the sake of arguing that the republican system in Yemen is the one that failed, as someone from the diaspora recently argued, what are the previous or next alternatives that have succeeded or may succeed? Before we judge the success or failure of an experiment, we must agree on clear criteria for defining and measuring success and failure, and apply them to the historical alternatives that have been tested and documented in Yemen: the republic, unity, the imamate, the split, the sultanate, the kingdoms and other political and social formulas that have a history in our country to this day from Sheba.