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Current History
Current History (2018) 117 (802): 304–309.
Published: 01 November 2018
... unemployment underemployment part-time work unions immigration workers employers Donald Trump trade tariffs Barack Obama Great Depression 304 [G]iven paltry real wages and the soul-crushing and skill-devaluing experience of long-term unemployment, fewer Americans are working at all. The...
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[G]iven paltry real wages and the soul-crushing and skill-devaluing experience of long-term unemployment, fewer Americans are working at all.
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Current History
Current History (2017) 116 (789): 136–141.
Published: 01 April 2017
... Pakistan Taliban Haqqani Network al-Qaeda Osama bin Laden NATO United States Tribal Areas Balochistan Jamiat-e Islami-yi Afghanistan General Zia ul Haq George Bush Barack Obama 136 Unless the United States rights its policies with respect to Pakistan, it has no hope of bringing...
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Unless the United States rights its policies with respect to Pakistan, it has no hope of bringing even a modicum of stability to Afghanistan …
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Current History
Current History (2017) 116 (786): 10–16.
Published: 01 January 2017
... California Michael Boyle Barack Obama United States foreign policy Syria Russia NATO China South China Sea Libya Islamic State al-Qaeda Middle East Iraq drones 10 Historians may well conclude that Obama glimpsed a different world for Ameri- can foreign policy but never exerted the...
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Historians may well conclude that Obama glimpsed a different world for American foreign policy but never exerted the kind of strategic direction needed to turn that vision into reality.
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Current History
Current History (2017) 116 (786): 3–9.
Published: 01 January 2017
... Boyle Barack Obama United States foreign policy Syria Russia NATO China South China Sea Libya Islamic State al-Qaeda Middle East Iraq drones For most of the Petroleum Age, and even as recently as ten years ago, the politics of en-ergy were largely governed by the assump- tion that...
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The world is beginning to move away from reliance on fossil fuels altogether, rendering obsolete many of the strategic plans intended to ensure the safe flow of oil.
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Current History
Current History (2017) 116 (786): 35–37.
Published: 01 January 2017
... Menon genocide humanitarian intervention Universal Declaration Human Rights Syria Aleppo Rwanda Libya al-Qaddafi Barack Obama global norms PERSPECTIVE Does an international community exist? Up to a point. Certainly, world politics cannot be reduced to a ceaseless Hobbes- ian rivalry...
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Efforts to press the international community to supersede national sovereignty when necessary to stop atrocities have been hindered by inconsistent application of the principle.
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Current History
Current History (2016) 115 (785): 337–342.
Published: 01 December 2016
... civil war Islamic State Barack Obama Russia Vladimir Putin Bashar al-Assad Turkey Libya Iraq Iran Middle East 337 The single most important external factor in the Syrian war s trajectory was the set of foreign policy beliefs Obama held well before the first shot was fired. The...
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The single most important external factor in the Syrian war's trajectory was the set of foreign policy beliefs Obama held well before the first shot was fired.
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Current History
Current History (2016) 115 (782): 203–208.
Published: 01 September 2016
... University of California Mark Beeson China South China Sea Philippines Vietnam Japan Australia United States maritime law Barack Obama Xi Jinping ASEAN nationalism United Nations Convention Law Sea How times change. Only a few years ago the East Asian region was known primarily...
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The absence of effective regional institutions means that the geopolitical competition between the United States and China is likely to play out without the constraining influence such organizations can provide …
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Current History
Current History (2016) 115 (781): 169–174.
Published: 01 May 2016
... Adrienne LeBas Africa Burkina Faso Kenya Zambia term limits political parties elections democracy Barack Obama 169 Executives are able to act with impunity because there is no strong, organized opposition to challenge entrenched incumbents and push them toward a genuine political opening...
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Executives are able to act with impunity because there is no strong, organized opposition to challenge entrenched incumbents and push them toward a genuine political opening.
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Current History
Current History (2016) 115 (780): 136–143.
Published: 01 April 2016
... elections Hamid Karzai Ashraf Ghani Abdullah Abdullah Barack Obama Pakistan George Bush Taliban Mullah Omar al-Qaeda Islamic State China 136 What divides Afghans more than ethnicity or ideology is an unwillingness to share power and a winner-takes-all approach to politics. Afghanistan...
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What divides Afghans more than ethnicity or ideology is an unwillingness to share power and a winner-takes-all approach to politics.
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Current History
Current History (2016) 115 (778): 75–76.
Published: 01 February 2016
... California Michael Shifter Cuba Latin America Barack Obama Fidel Castro Raul Havana boycott trade normalization diplomatic relations Cold War PERSPECTIVE For over five decades, no issue so sharp-ly divided the United States from Latin America and the Caribbean as Washington s...
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Washington's policy of isolating Cuba succeeded only in alienating most of Latin America. Obama's new course has been welcomed, though other irritants, such as US immigration policy, remain.
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Current History
Current History (2016) 115 (777): 3–9.
Published: 01 January 2016
... China India United States United Nations Framework Convention Climate Change Kyoto Protocol carbon emissions greenhouse gas Barack Obama Clean Power Plan Climate change has finally come of age politically. Before the recently concluded Paris negotiations, the issue was not ripe for...
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[F]or many developing countries, the Paris agreement is better than no deal and an important step in the right direction.
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Current History
Current History (2016) 115 (777): 17–22.
Published: 01 January 2016
... gay foreign policy Barack Obama Hillary Clinton Uganda United Nations Human Rights Council evangelicals 17 It is premature to gauge the full impact of the developed West s effort to sell gay rights to the developing world, but the early returns are not auspicious . . . The Troubled...
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It is premature to gauge the full impact of the developed West’s effort to sell gay rights to the developing world, but the early returns are not auspicious …
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Current History
Current History (2015) 114 (769): 73–76.
Published: 01 February 2015
... University of California Ted Henken Archibald Ritter Cuba embargo US barack Obama raul castro prisoner exchange bloqueo auto-bloqueo technology telecom embassy deal growth economy centralization socialism perfect self-employed private sector small-enterprise paquete black...
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Relations with Washington are suddenly warmer—but if Cuba wants a vibrant economy, it must allow its people to engage in entrepreneurship and enjoy unrestricted access to the Internet.
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Current History
Current History (2014) 113 (761): 123–124.
Published: 01 March 2014
... Obama barack transatlantic berlin wall Europe European union America U.S. United states institutions NSA national nationalist security agency allies alliances TTIP NATO market atlantic PERSPECTIVE A quarter century after the fall of the Berlin Wall, relations between the United...
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The United States and Europe must rebalance their partnership in order to face the political, economic, and security challenges of the twenty-first century.
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Current History
Current History (2013) 112 (756): 283–284.
Published: 01 October 2013
... Syria Vladimir Putin Barack Obama Saudi Arabia Qatar Egypt Turkey chemical weapons PERSPECTIVE In the latter part of 2012 and the beginning of 2013, the Russian-backed Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad appeared increasingly vulner- able and likely to fall to a domestic insurgency. Yet...
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The Kremlin's support of Bashar al-Assad's regime appears to be working for now, but protecting unpopular autocrats hardly seems a sustainable long-term strategy.
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Current History
Current History (2013) 112 (753): 152–154.
Published: 01 April 2013
... Regents of the University of California Shamila Chaudhary Pakistan counterterrorism Afghanistan Sunni Shiite sectarian Al Qaeda Taliban George Bush Barack Obama 152 PERSPECTIVE When the United States and its allies invaded Afghanistan in 2001 to oust the Islamic fundamentalist...
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A spike in Sunni-Shiite violence, increasing collaboration between sectarian and insurgent groups, and US forces' drawdown in neighboring Afghanistan warrant a fresh review of counterterrorism strategy in Pakistan.
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Current History
Current History (2013) 112 (753): 155–157.
Published: 01 April 2013
... War , Edited by Hy Rothstein and John Arquilla . Georgetown University Press , 2012 . © 2013 Current History. All rights reserved. 2013 The Regents of the University of California William Finan Afghanistan Al Qaeda Taliban Barack Obama book review Barnett Rubin Fred...
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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
Current History (2012) 111 (748): 299–304.
Published: 01 November 2012
... California David Lesch Syria intervention Libya Barack Obama Turkey Jordan Muammar el-Qaddafi Bashar al-Assad Russia China Iran 299 We have learned time and again in history that arming opposition forces, while improving their chances in the near term, can militarize and divide a...
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We have learned time and again in history that arming opposition forces, while improving their chances in the near term, can militarize and divide a society in ways detrimental to its recovery.
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Current History
Current History (2012) 111 (748): 322–324.
Published: 01 November 2012
... responsibility protect Libya Barack Obama mass atrocities Syria Libya Somalia Rwanda 322 PERSPECTIVE determining whether, when, where, and why to intervene to protect civilians caught in the crosshairs of war and vio- lence increasingly is guided by the responsibil- ity to protect (R2P). With the...
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“Never again” is not a reality. But as the Obama administration showed in Libya, US leadership can make prevention of mass atrocities a plausible proposition.
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Current History
Current History (2012) 111 (747): 281–283.
Published: 01 October 2012
... Russia reset China Barack Obama New START treaty Libya Syria Central Asia 281 PERSPECTIVE Eighteen months ago it appeared that US President Barack Obama was succeeding in improving relations with Moscow, a task that his two predecessors, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, failed to accomplish...
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Conflict in Syria and political protests in Russia have cast a shadow over relations with Washington while highlighting Moscow's growing partnership with Beijing.