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Current History
Current History (2019) 118 (807): 149–153.
Published: 01 April 2019
... refugees Myanmar military junta Burma Bangladesh British Empire colonialism migration Buddhists Muslims Rakhine ethnic cleansing genocide Aung San Suu Kyi 149 Myanmar has consolidated its impunity, making its crimes a fait accompli. To do so, it first destabilized the legitimacy of...
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Myanmar has consolidated its impunity, making its crimes a fait accompli. To do so, it first destabilized the legitimacy of the Rohingya as a group …
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Current History
Current History (2019) 118 (807): 157–159.
Published: 01 April 2019
... Books , 2018 © 2019 Current History. All rights reserved. 2019 The Regents of the University of California book review Eric Tagliacozzo Sunil Amrith Unruly Waters monsoon pollution climate change British Empire natural disasters water policy Bay Bengal dams irrigation...
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For centuries, India searched for ways to escape the deadly cycle of too little water and too much. Pollution and climate change threaten to undo the progress it has made.
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Current History
Current History (2017) 116 (792): 251–257.
Published: 01 October 2017
...Ronald Grigor Suny The Soviet Union was an empire within which nations old and new developed, changed, and eventually became self-sufficient enough to opt out. © 2017 Current History. All rights reserved. 2017 The Regents of the University of California Ronald Grigor Suny Vladimir...
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The Soviet Union was an empire within which nations old and new developed, changed, and eventually became self-sufficient enough to opt out.
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Current History
Current History (2017) 116 (789): 123–129.
Published: 01 April 2017
... History. All rights reserved. 2017 The Regents of the University of California Chitralekha Zutshi Kashmir India Pakistan Srinagar Jammu Partition British Empire Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah Islamist militancy Lashkar-i-Taiba Jaish-e-Muhammad Burhan Wani Hizbul Mujahidden...
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Caught between two feuding countries, neither of which has truly incorporated Kashmir into its nationalist imagination or institutional structures, Kashmiris have developed their own nationalist narrative to assert their distinctiveness and desire for freedom.
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Current History
Current History (2017) 116 (789): 157–159.
Published: 01 April 2017
...Sumit Ganguly A new book on Britain's reign in the subcontinent, departing from earlier generations of scholarship, does not sanitize the brutality and racism that undergirded the colonial enterprise. The Chaos of Empire: The British Raj and the Conquest of India , by Jon Wilson . Public...
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A new book on Britain's reign in the subcontinent, departing from earlier generations of scholarship, does not sanitize the brutality and racism that undergirded the colonial enterprise.
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Current History
Current History (2017) 116 (786): 31–34.
Published: 01 January 2017
... Ottoman Empire Turkey Caliphate pan-Arabism sharia political Islam Islamists religion state building women's rights 31 [The] incorporation of Islam within state institutions nationalized religious authorities and teachings, giving rise to a hegemonic version of the faith. The Nationalist...
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[The] incorporation of Islam within state institutions nationalized religious authorities and teachings, giving rise to a hegemonic version of the faith.
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Current History
Current History (2016) 115 (785): 343–348.
Published: 01 December 2016
... Fanar Haddad Iraq borders colonialism sectarianism corruption Shia Sunni Kurds Middle East Sykes-Picot Ottoman Empire Baghdad nationalism 343 [F]ocusing on the supposed consequences of Iraq s artificial foundations diverts our attention from the real issues cumulative or immediate...
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[F]ocusing on the supposed consequences of Iraq's artificial foundations diverts our attention from the real issues—cumulative or immediate—that continue to destabilize the country.
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Current History
Current History (2016) 115 (777): 32–35.
Published: 01 January 2016
... , 2015 . © 2020 Current History. All rights reserved. 2020 The Regents of the University of California Monica Duffy Toft Elizabeth Shakman Hurd religious freedom human rights cultural imperialism Turkey Alevis Ottoman Empire book review To begin with, five facts:1. The...
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A new book finds fault with global campaigns for religious minorities' rights. Its author misses the interaction of local and international dynamics.
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Current History
Current History (2015) 114 (774): 285–287.
Published: 01 October 2015
... Suny . Princeton University Press , 2015 . © 2015 Current History. All rights reserved. 2015 The Regents of the University of California Howard Eissenstat Ronald Grigor Suny Armenian genocide Turkey Ottoman Empire Young Turks World War In 1985, 69 scholars of Turkish and...
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Ronald Grigor Suny has written a history of the Armenian genocide that goes beyond familiar partisan interpretations and does justice to the full complexity of the tragedy.
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Current History
Current History (2014) 113 (766): 312–317.
Published: 01 November 2014
... national self-determination nationalism internationalism hegemony world war one Europe civilization globalization great war trenches France Germany Russia czar czarist dominate ottoman empire Wilson east Asia Middle East colonies imperial depression bolshevik soviet Clark...
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Self-determination lacked legal standing in international law and remained ill-defined, and was thus open to appropriation and redefinition to suit diverse needs.
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Current History
Current History (2014) 113 (766): 305–311.
Published: 01 November 2014
... internationalism nationalism self-determination league nations nation-state normative sovereignty world war one Europe civilization globalization great war trenches France Germany Russia czar czarist dominate ottoman empire Wilson east Asia Middle East colonies imperial depression...
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The world ended up with a League that simultaneously normalized international government and privileged the nation-state as the normative form of political sovereignty.
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Current History
Current History (2014) 113 (766): 318–323.
Published: 01 November 2014
... dominate ottoman empire Wilson east Asia Middle East colonies imperial depression bolshevik soviet suffering cost Caucasus Gallipoli Galicia Yugoslavia Japan Turkey 318 [T]he war undoubtedly acted as a major catalyst to an aspect of the modern world we have seen time and time again...
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[T]he war undoubtedly acted as a major catalyst to an aspect of the modern world we have seen time and time again, namely the mobilization of ethnic groups by great powers for their own geopolitical interests.
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Current History
Current History (2014) 113 (766): 299–304.
Published: 01 November 2014
... History. All rights reserved. 2014 The Regents of the University of California John Horne global legacy legacies world war one Europe civilization globalization great war trenches France Germany Russia czar czarist H1N1 flu dominate ottoman empire Wilson east Asia Middle...
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Although the prestige of European civilization suffered a body blow in World War I, it took most Europeans longer to realize that their continent was not the center of the world, and longer still to think of a war fought mainly in Europe as a truly global conflict.
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Current History
Current History (2014) 113 (766): 324–328.
Published: 01 November 2014
... Patricia clavin economic economics consequences peace economy world war one Europe civilization globalization great war France Germany Russia czar czarist debt reparations dominate ottoman empire Wilson east Asia Middle East colonies imperial depression bolshevik soviet...
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The modern, globalized economy had emerged with vigor and reach in the nineteenth century, but was no more a guarantor of domestic or world peace after 1918 than it had been in 1914.
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Current History
Current History (2014) 113 (766): 329–331.
Published: 01 November 2014
... California Sean mcmeekin contingency comparison catastrophe analogy Ukraine world war one Europe civilization globalization great war trenches France Germany Russia czar czarist dominate ottoman empire Wilson east Asia Middle East colonies imperial depression bolshevik...
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Drawing analogies between the global political situation in 1914 and the present misses the point: From its outbreak to its conclusion, the Great War was defined by uncertainty and accident.
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Current History
Current History (2014) 113 (766): 332–334.
Published: 01 November 2014
... world war one Europe civilization globalization great war trenches France Germany Russia czar czarist dominate ottoman empire Wilson east Asia Middle East colonies imperial depression bolshevik soviet suffering cost Caucasus conflict If World War I turned the world...
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A new book by Adam Tooze boldly seeks to revise the history of World War I and the interwar era. His focus on the rise of American financial power is apt, but overlooks the role of US politics.
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Current History
Current History (2014) 113 (765): 290–292.
Published: 01 October 2014
...Michael A. Reynolds The Ottoman and Russian empires clashed for centuries, but Turkey's recent embrace of its imperial legacy has not emboldened it to challenge Moscow over the annexation of Crimea. © 2014 Current History. All rights reserved. 2014 The Regents of the University of California...
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The Ottoman and Russian empires clashed for centuries, but Turkey's recent embrace of its imperial legacy has not emboldened it to challenge Moscow over the annexation of Crimea.
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Current History
Current History (2014) 113 (764): 231–237.
Published: 01 September 2014
... China ethnic stick carrot minorities religious Muslim Uighur Uyghur Nepal monks Buddhist party-state Han hanification sinocization Umruqi capital train separatism PRC mongols manchus nationalities ethnicities celestial empire three-tier Confucian Turkic tensions post-mao...
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A better understanding of the flaws in China's ethnic policy would help ease the vicious cycle of ever more sticks and carrots in dealing with sensitive regions.
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Current History
Current History (2014) 113 (763): 205–206.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Elizabeth Schmidt A new book by Frederick Cooper seeks to change our understanding both of Africa's role in the global economy over the centuries and of how the independent nation-state replaced colonial rule. Africa in the World: Capitalism, Empire, Nation-State , by Frederick Cooper...
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A new book by Frederick Cooper seeks to change our understanding both of Africa's role in the global economy over the centuries and of how the independent nation-state replaced colonial rule.
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Current History
Current History (2003) 102 (667): 355–360.
Published: 01 November 2003
...Bruce Cumings That the United States would be hegemonic was inevitable from Bretton Woods onward. That it might also become an empire was not. © 2003 Current History. All rights reserved. 2003 The Regents of the University of California United States George Bush imperialism Dean...
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That the United States would be hegemonic was inevitable from Bretton Woods onward. That it might also become an empire was not.