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Current History (2014) 113 (760): 85.
Published: 01 February 2014
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Scott Mainwaring and Aníbal Pérez-Liñán analyze more than a century of Latin American political history, hunting for the root causes of dictatorship and democracy.
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Current History (2013) 112 (758): 366.
Published: 01 December 2013
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In his new book, Shibley Telhami analyzes extensive polling data from the Middle East, finding that public opinion embraces regional uprisings but dwells on old grievances.
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Current History (2013) 112 (757): 326.
Published: 01 November 2013
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A new book by Neil Irwin recounts the extraordinary measures undertaken by central bankers to avert a global depression. The formula to end economic malaise, however, remains undiscovered.
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Current History (2013) 112 (755): 244.
Published: 01 September 2013
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The authors of a new history of modern China argue that nationalism, not communism, has propelled the country's political evolution and its rise as an international power.
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Current History (2013) 112 (753): 155–157.
Published: 01 April 2013
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Three new books examine how it happened that, 12 years after going to war in Afghanistan, the United States and its allies are preparing to withdraw from a nation still largely ungovernable and pervaded by corruption, warlordism, and insecurity.
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Current History (2013) 112 (752): 118.
Published: 01 March 2013
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A new book by Anne Applebaum offers a heavily detailed, ground-level history of the arrival of communist rule in postwar Eastern Europe. The author aims, she says, to understand “totalitarianism in practice.”
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Current History (2013) 112 (751): 77–78.
Published: 01 February 2013
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A new book meditates on Haiti before and since the 2010 earthquake, and about the do-gooders who visit, armed with “a kind of condescension filled with pity.”
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Current History (2012) 111 (748): 325–326.
Published: 01 November 2012
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A new book recounts the history of the international human rights movement, a movement that of late has become in part an instrument of war.
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Current History (2012) 111 (747): 284–285.
Published: 01 October 2012
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A new book details how US policies under George W. Bush helped sour Vladimir Putin on the West, leaving him in the paranoid funk that still colors his outlook today.
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Current History (2012) 111 (746): 244.
Published: 01 September 2012
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A new book about a fugitive from North Korea casts chilling light on the world's last remaining national system of concentration camps.
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Current History (2012) 111 (745): 198.
Published: 01 May 2012
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A freelance journalist living in Somalia studied the buccaneers who have seized ships in the Gulf of Aden and captured the attention of navies and news media.
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Current History (2012) 111 (742): 77–78.
Published: 01 February 2012
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A new book portrays 12 iconic Latin Americans—politicians, poets, revolutionaries—who sought to set right the wrongs of the past, often with ambiguous results.
Journal Articles
Current History (2011) 110 (740): 372.
Published: 01 December 2011
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A new book finds the sources of Arab unrest not only in fury at corrupt regimes and stagnant economies, but also in a popular culture that scorns Islamist extremism.
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Current History (2011) 110 (739): 334.
Published: 01 November 2011
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Of course critical differences distinguish democratic from authoritarian governments. Still, a new book argues that all politicians, in striving to gain and keep power, consult essentially the same handbook.
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Current History (2011) 110 (738): 294.
Published: 01 October 2011
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A new book recounts the events of December 1991, when Mikhail Gorbachev resigned the presidency and the Soviet empire disappeared.
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Current History (2011) 110 (737): 251–252.
Published: 01 September 2011
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Henry Kissinger in his latest book parts company with international-relations realists who believe China's rise will necessarily entail conflict with the United States.
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Current History (2011) 110 (736): 204–205.
Published: 01 May 2011
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A new book traces the political development of South Africa and Zimbabwe through the personal histories of leaders who started as revolutionaries and became presidents.
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Current History (2011) 110 (734): 125–126.
Published: 01 March 2011
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A collection of essays by Timothy Garton Ash argues that Europe's velvet revolutions succeeded by broadcasting images of popular defiance: images now recurring elsewhere in the world.
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Current History (2011) 110 (733): 83–85.
Published: 01 February 2011
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A new book argues that Latin American countries, having left behind their banana-republic past, will serve as exemplars for developed nations to follow.
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Current History (2011) 110 (732): 38–39.
Published: 01 January 2011
Abstract
A new book suggests the East will surpass the West in social development, but not until the next century, and in any case the whole world will likely rise or fall together.
