...Sara Rich Dorman Zimbabwes politics continues to be driven by a generation that defines itself in terms of its contribution to the liberation war and remains committed to defending that legacy. © 2018 Current History. All rights reserved. 2018 The Regents of the University of California...

... Russian Revolution foreign policy Cold War Third World China United States Europe NATO anticolonialism decolonization national liberation nonaligned movement communism 258 Russia continues to be caught between a need to integrate itself into the West and a desire to maintain its...

... Oliver Walton Sri Lanka Maithripala Sirisena Mahinda Rajapaksa civil war Liberation Tigers Tamil Eelam Tamil Tigers Tamils Sinhalese transitional justice reconciliation war crimes United Nations China 130 It was perhaps naive and overly optimistic to believe that regime change...

... war Jose Eduardo dos Santos People's Movement Liberation Angola UNITA oil wealth human rights Rafael Marques Luaty Beirão 175 Angola s rulers are faced with the rise of a generation that does not accept the political logic of the war, whereby dissent equaled treason. Youthful...

... from 16,000 a decade ago. The second-largest guerrilla movement is the National Liberation Army (ELN), which also began operations in 1964. Unlike the rural FARC, the ELN was mostly an outgrowth of unrest in universities. The ELN s ideology, which has tra- ditionally been considered a mixture of Cuban...

... Liu Xiaobo People's Liberation Army Deng Xiaoping Tibet 211 China s leaders seem nervous. Despite pre-siding over a rapidly growing economy and an ever-increasing presence in inter- national affairs, they remain wary of the potential of a popular upsurge that would threaten their hold...

... and People s Liberation Army also are poorly prepared for large-scale refugee inflows. tentative engagement Despite these serious threats, few policy makers in the United States have paid attention to Myan- mar s ethnic minority areas. Because the United States has not had an ambassador in Myanmar in years...

... of California Abyei Richard Williamson Sudan Omar Hassan al-Bashir South Sudan Salva Kiir Sudanese civil war Comprehensive Peace Agreement Sudan People's Liberation Movement Abyei Border Commission 171 If events go as planned, southern Sudan in just weeks will separate from...

... Laurent Kabila Union Democracy Social Progress Étienne Tshisekedi UN Stabilization Mission Congo Jean-Pierre Bemba International Criminal Court Congo Liberation Movement 196 The real question is not whether Kabila will win reelection, but how he has sur- vived for 10 years...

... Liberation Army 264 BOOKS Just as China s rapidly expanding economy has given the country a level of global political influence that it has not enjoyed in several hundred years, so Beijing s military moderniza- tion efforts have produced Chinese armed forces that, for the first time in the modern era...

... Ethiopia Haile Selassie Coalition Unity Democracy Eritrea Eritrean People's Liberation Front Meles Zenawi Ethiopian Revolutionary Democratic Mengistu Mariam Tigrayan 186 Once the 2010 election passes without any meaningful change, the real contest among rival political and ethnic...

... The Regents of the University of California Sri Lanka Tamils Mahinda Rajapaksa Sarath Fonseka Tamil Tigers Eastern Province Sinhalese Tamil National Alliance People's Liberation Front United National Party 158 Rajapaksa s patriotism merges nation and state, and it promotes a love...

... Liberation Army Boliva Evo Morales Pachakutik Movement Toward Socialism Ecuador Confederation Indigenous Nationals Ecuardo Declaration Rights Indigenous Peoples 83 Although isolated victories do occur . . . contemporary indigenous politics is marked more by retrenchment than by progress...

... forces. © 2003 Current History. All rights reserved. 2003 The Regents of the University of California United States Al Qaeda terrorism snipers Washington D.C Earth Liberation Front John Allen Muhammed John Lee Malvo George Bush Iraq 422 After September 11, 2001, the United...

... a deterioration of relations or a return to the roller coaster of the 1990s. Indeed, both are otherwise preoccupied. Asia George Bush China engagement People's Liberation Army September Taiwan terrorism United States Jiang Zemin © 2002 Current History. All rights reserved. 2002 The Regents...

... of the University of California Balkans guerrilla Islam Israel Lebanon Palestine Liberation Organization religion revolutionary Russia terrorism The September 11 attack has created a resolve in America and elsewhere to end terror everywhere. But the history of terror does not inspire much confi...

... of California Albanians Balkans Bosnia ethnicities Kosovo Kosovo Liberation Army Macedonia National Liberation Army Skopje Yugoslavia Macedonia: Melting Pot or Meltdown? DUNCAN PERRY In early 2001, the Republic of Macedonia becamethe target of a sustained Albanian guerrilla insur-gency...

... of the University of California Albanian Balkan Dayton Kosova Kosova Liberation Army Macedonia Milosevic NATO Rugova Serbian Instead of shutting out new ways of interpreting Kosova s problems and giving a monopoly of authority to a small clique of dubious characters, it should be stressed...

... The Regents of the University of California criminal tribunal Kosovo Liberation Army Kostunica Milosevic opposition Otpor! protests Serbia Yugoslavia 109 The political scene in Serbia changed dramat-ically in the fall of 2000 when Yugoslav Pres-ident Slobodan Milosevic lost the September...