... 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 of...

...Aaron Reeves [S]hort-term policy changes can have long-term effects on the health and well-being of the population. © 2018 Current History. All rights reserved. 2018 The Regents of the University of California Aaron Reeves Great Recession financial crisis public health life...

...Chris Tilly [G]iven paltry real wages and the soul-crushing and skill-devaluing experience of long-term unemployment, fewer Americans are working at all. © 2018 Current History. All rights reserved. 2018 The Regents of the University of California Chris Tilly Great Recession labor...

... Ilene Grabel international lending institutions developing nations global financial architecture 2008 financial crisis Great Recession Bretton Woods International Monetary Fund World Bank United States PERSPECTIVE The Upside of a Messier Global Financial Architecture ILENE...

... Jacqueline Best global financial crisis Great Recession democracy economics monetary policy finance unemployment Keynesian economics Milton Friedman Ronald Reagan Margaret Thatcher neoliberalism regulation 291 Ten years after the 2008 financial crisis threat-ened to bring the global...

...Douglas S. Massey; Jacob S. Rugh “In the course of the Great Recession, already fragile black and Hispanic middle-class households lost huge amounts of wealth, which had often been painstakingly accumulated over many decades.” Third in a series on social mobility around the world . © 2018 Current...

... Affairs , 2016 . © 2017 Current History. All rights reserved. 2017 The Regents of the University of California Sumit Ganguly book review Chaos Empire British Raj Conquest India Jon Wilson India Great Britain British colonialism history It is curious that British historians...

... that economic dissatisfaction was limited. PROTECTIONIST BANDWAGON The 1930s narrative was different. Support for an open, market-based economic system was un- dermined by the high unemployment and social distress caused by the Great Depression. The first casualty was the openness of the American econ...

... financial crisis economic reform banking regulations Federal Reserve Wall Street Great Recession Depression China Europe laissez-faire Ben Bernanke Alan Greenspan Glass-Steagall Dodd-Frank 23 The United States is unrepaired and still vulnerable; Europe is hobbled and encumbered by...

... 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...

... 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 bolshevik soviet Clark suffering cost Caucasus Gallipoli Galicia Yugoslavia...

...Mark Levene [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. © 2014 Current History. All rights reserved. 2014 The Regents of the...

... allowed it to preserve much of the czarist empire in a new form. The Soviet Union re- mained a great power, but its ideology meant that it could not be the same kind of diplomatic ally as czarist Russia. Anti-Bolshevism contributed to another ideol- ogy incubated by the war an authoritarian but populist...

... civilization globalization great war France Germany Russia czar czarist debt reparations dominate ottoman empire Wilson east Asia Middle East colonies imperial depression bolshevik soviet Clark suffering cost Japan Turkey parallax united states US 1918 1914 324 The modern...

...Sean McMeekin 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. © 2014 Current History. All rights reserved. 2014 The Regents of the University of...

...Emily S. Rosenberg 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. The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916–1931...

... politicians, such as Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta and dutch deputy Prime Minister Lodewijk Asscher. While the warnings have employed different terms and point to somewhat different groups of parties and politicians, they all share at least two major messages: (1) The Great Recession has led to the rise...

... Regents of the University of California Ronald Tiersky France Germany Great Britain Nicolas Sarkozy François Hollande Charles de Gaulle taxes competition labor unemployment European Union Mali 100 German economic dynamism still complicates French prosperity, but as the euro...

... Middle East European Union Libya Iran France Germany Great Britain NATO 118 PERSPECTIVE In 2011, the long-awaited Arab Spring reas-serted the Greater Middle East as history s geo-graphic pivot a region, that is, where con- flicts, fueled by intense sectarian passions, have an inescapable...

...Uri Dadush Why have the fiscal paths of the United Kingdom (radical budget cuts) and the United States (extended tax cuts) diverged so dramatically? © 2011 Current History. All rights reserved. 2011 The Regents of the University of California Uri Dadush Great Britain United States...