...Rachel Harris [T]he entire Uighur population is now regarded as a problem in need of an aggressive solution. © 2019 Current History. All rights reserved. 2019 The Regents of the University of California China Xinjiang authoritarianism Islam Uighurs Central Asia cul 276 [T]he...

... Brexit Maastricht Treaty France Netherlands Italy Five Star Movement central banks 1968 83 Everyone can see that European politics is changing. In January, the British Parliament delivered a stinging defeat to Prime Minister Theresa May s plan to take the United Kingdom out of the European...

... of the University of California Julia Lynch Jonathan Hopkin financial crisis Great Recession Western Europe capitalism democracy political parties free central banks austerity populism social democrats 315 [T]he financial crisis can be best understood as the final catastrophic stage...

... Ibañez-Tirado Magnus Marsden China Belt Road Initiative Silk Road trade Central Asia Tajikistan economic development commerce foreign investment infrastructure PERSPECTIVE China s Old and New Central Asian Ties DIANA IBAÑEZ-TIRADO AND MAGNUS MARSDEN 283 Traveling by road from...

... Shavkat Mirziyoyev Islam Karimov democratic reforms Soviet Union authoritarianism Islam Central Asia labor migration 277 [L]abor migration brought the country to a point of no return: millions of the poorest Uzbeks could no longer be cut off from the rest of the world . . . Uzbekistan...

...Marianne Kamp An anthropologist with long ties to a border town in Central Asia watched as nationalist sentiment turned what had been an informal boundary into a hard divide between erstwhile neighbors. One glance at a detailed map of the Fer-ghana Valley in Central Asia is enough to provoke...

...Sonja Wolf A vivid account of the criminal violence ravaging Central America shows why many migrants have fled to the United States—and how Washington's policies are deeply implicated in their plight. A History of Violence: Living and Dying in Central America , by Óscar Martínez . Verso...

... of the University of California Marianne Kamp Central Asia Soviet legacy women's rights Islam Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Uzbekistan Tajikistan Turkmenistan literacy labor rights voting rights Joseph Stalin Bolsheviks unveiling campaign 270 While Soviet efforts to promote gender equality...

...Raffaello Pantucci China is the increasingly dominant power in the region, but it is acting in full concordance with Russia. Raffaello Pantucci Central Asia Russia China Xinjiang Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan Collective Security Treaty Organization New Silk Road Economic...

... of the University of California Sebastian Veg China public sphere civil society censorship Xi Jinping Central Propaganda Department internet self-censorship bloggers Han Xu Zhiyuan On July 17, 2015, People s Daily announced that a new deputy director of the Chinese Communist Party s...

... Jones political economy policy making maker consensus EU bailout crisis crises euro eurocrisis Eurozone quantitative easing central bank ECB QE solidarity assets liquidity governing cuncile bundesbank draghi merkel angela debt weidmann budgeting austerity redistribution...

...José Miguel Cruz [T]he ceaseless undocumented migration from Central America can be traced back to institutional failures that have blocked the development of peaceful societies under the democratic rule of law. … © 2015 Current History. All rights reserved. 2015 The Regents of the University...

... of California Adekeye Adebajo UN peacekeeping pax Africa African AU union economic community states ECCAS SADC development Southern ECOWAS west Ethiopia Nigeria Rwanda Senegal Ghana China Aesop colonial postcolonial Darfur Lumumba Angola Mozambique Mali CAR central...

... Central America Violence violent Costa Rica junta democracy Somoza El Salvador Guatemala Baloyra GDD oligarch centrist Arbenz CIA economy guard despotism Serrano Ortega Sandinista Aleman contra PERSPECTIVE Armed conflict liquidated Central America s dictatorships by the end...

...William W. Finan, Jr. 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. The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire , by Neil Irwin...

... 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...

...Eric McGlinchey Aging autocrats and an absence of clear succession mechanisms make a combination that, if not soon addressed, will lead to political upheaval.… © 2012 Current History. All rights reserved. 2012 The Regents of the University of California Eric McGlinchey Central Asia...

... the nation s response to the 9/11 assault, the US Central Command (CENTCOM), which is respon- sible for conducting military operations in the Middle East and Central Asia, possessed neither a plan for conventional ground operations in Afghanistan nor the information necessary to develop such a plan...

...Michael Shifter The end of political, armed conflict 15 years ago has not been accompanied by higher levels of social peace. On the contrary, fear and lawlessness today are rampant in the region. Central America Guatemala El Salvador Honduras Nicaragua Costa Rica crime insecurity drug...

...Stephen P. Cohen The sense of being used, abused, and discarded now constitutes a central theme in Pakistan's ties to America. … © 2010 Current History. All rights reserved. 2010 The Regents of the University of California Pakistan United States Soviet Union India Afghanistan cold...