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...Kimberly J. Morgan A new book lays blame for the weak social safety net on political rhetoric that justifies government aid as an individual right and not a public good–a tradition that dates back to the New Deal. The Transformation of American Liberalism , by George Klosko . Oxford...

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... 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...

... Alexis Tsipras Yanis Varoufakis Panos Kammenos Independent Greeks euro European Commission International Monetary Fund Angela Merkel Vladimir Putin George Papandreou 108 To the Brink and Back in Greece MANOS MATSAGANIS [O]rdinary Greeks intuitively understood better than many...

...Joshua Lustig An anniversary occasions a look back through this magazine's archives. © 2014 Current History. All rights reserved. 2014 The Regents of the University of California Joshua Lustig Current History New York Times George Bernard Shaw world war international affairs...

...Julie A. George [T]he essential story of Georgian politics is a gradual, long-term trend: the slow growth in popular expectations of an accountable government that engages in fair economic and political play. © 2013 Current History. All rights reserved. 2013 The Regents of the University...

... Sunni Shiite sectarian Al Qaeda Taliban George Bush Barack Obama © 2013 Current History. All rights reserved. 2013 The Regents of the University of California 152 PERSPECTIVE When the United States and its allies invaded Afghanistan in 2001 to oust the Islamic fundamentalist Taliban...

... History. All rights reserved. 2012 The Regents of the University of California William Finan Aryeh Neier human rights movement George Bush war terror responsibility protect sovereignty 325 Books Let s be clear about what this book is and is not. Those expecting a volume...

...William W. Finan, Jr. 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. The Strongman: Vladimir Putin and the Struggle for Russia , by Angus Roxburgh . Macmillan , 2012...

...Aurelia George Mulgan The Trans-Pacific Partnership promises to open markets and encourage structural reforms, but powerful domestic interests oppose Japan's involvement. © 2012 Current History. All rights reserved. 2012 The Regents of the University of California Aurelia George Mulgan...

... Arab Spring democracy Hillary Clinton George Bush Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali Tunisia Egypt Muslim Brotherhood 14 This is a period laden with potential for the growth of freedom, but also heavy with risks and challenges for the United States. Arab Revolts Upend Old Assumptions aUgUstUs...

...David B. Kanin; Steven E. Meyer The United States will have to get used to others saying ‘no’ when Americans attempt to ‘lead’ them. © 2012 Current History. All rights reserved. 2012 The Regents of the University of California David Kanin Steven Meyer United States cold war George...

... of California Lincoln Mitchell democracy promotion George Bush United States Tunisia Egypt Hosni Mubarak Georgia Azerbaijan Barack Obama 311 The 1990s were the period when democracy promotion in the form we think of it today began to take shape. But that global political environment...

... examine carefully the advice they receive from senior military officers about the pace of the drawdown. On one hand, the generals have often pro- vided poor counsel to Obama and his predeces- sor George W. Bush. This has led to a consistent under-resourcing of the war, which has brought America...

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... War normalization Nguyen Tan Dung George Bush Vietnamese Communist Party ASEAN Cambodia 162 The connection with the United States [is] a geopolitical asset in the competition that the Vietnamese have long carried out with China. Vietnam and America: Parameters of the Possible FrederiCk...

... , 2009 . © 2010 Current History. All rights reserved. 2010 The Regents of the University of California Afghanistan United States George Bush Seth Jones Taliban 173 BOOKS Alexander the Great was stopped there. Genghis Khan and Tamerlane too. The British, rulers of neighboring India...

.... All rights reserved. 2010 The Regents of the University of California East Germany Mary Elise Sarotte George Bush Mikhail Gorbachev Helmut Kohl 126 BOOKS According to the narrative of the cold war that has become conventional wisdom, the end went like this: We (the United States...