... racial inequality middle class social mobility corruption African National Congress education employment business Jacob Zuma Cyril Ramaphosa 169 The precarity of daily existence for so many black middle-class South Africans is heightened by dependence on political connections. South...

... expectancy suicide opioid epidemic unemployment social spending welfare austerity homelessness poverty hunger United States Affordable Care Act Europe Britain National Health Service Greece 310 [S]hort-term policy changes can have long-term effects on the health and well- being...

... Sara Rich Dorman Africa Zimbabwe Emmerson Mnangagwa Robert Mugabe liberation war Zimbabwe African National Union ZANU Morgan Tsvangirai military coup authoritarian rule land independence 163 In 1980, Robert Mugabe and his Zimbabwe Af-rican National Union (ZANU) party came...

... conflict Uhuru Kenyatta Raila Odinga Supreme Court Jubilee Party National Super Alliance NASA institutions Somalia al-Shabaab 187 [T]he conflicts surrounding the 2017 elections severely eroded the integrity of democracy in Kenya. Another Disputed Election Batters Kenya s Institutions K...

... of California Xolela Mangcu South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa Jacob Zuma Thabo Mbeki African National Congress corruption Nelson Mandela institutions education race PERSPECTIVE A Fresh Start for South Africa? XOLELA MANGCU 194 In my book The Arrogance of Power: South Af-rica s Leadership...

... of California Alejandro Velasco Venezuela Nicolás Maduro Hugo Chávez Constituent Assembly National elections democracy riots food shortages authoritarianism populism working class PERSPECTIVE The Pyrrhic Victories of Venezuela s President ALEJANDRO VELASCO 73 Christmas Eve should have...

... occupation occupied territories settlements United Nations Yasser Arafat Hamas Fatah Palestinian National Authority Oslo Accords intifada Mahmoud Abbas The West Bank (including parts of Jerusa-lem) and the Gaza Strip came under full Israeli control in the course of the short Arab-Israeli...

... 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...

..., is territo- rially defined. IDENTITY CRISIS The protracted conflict has had major implications for Ukrainian national identity. When I arrived in the region in 2015, many Ukrainians were euphoric, thinking that the Revolution of Dignity would bring unity and a new civic identity to a country without...

... reserved. 2017 The Regents of the University of California Marcel Paret South Africa labor unions working class African National Congress apartheid Marikana massacre Jacob Zuma community protests 176 South Africa s organized labor movement is now, arguably, weaker and more...

... Current History. All rights reserved. 2017 The Regents of the University of California Emmanuel Teitelbaum India labor unions organized labor employment Narendra Modi Bharatiya Janata Party National Democratic Alliance Trade Unions Act Contract Labor Act Industrial Disputes...

... identity before a crowd that included delegations of native peoples from across Latin America and as far away as Canada and the United States. The new president, elected with 54 percent of the vote the previous month, thus embodied a dual discourse that called both for national liberation...

.... 2016 The Regents of the University of California Oxana Shevel Ukraine Crimea decommunization laws national identity Soviet Union legacy pro-Russia sentiment eastern Ukraine Donbas Maidan Euromaidan protests Viktor Yanukovych 258 The fundamental dilemma in Ukraine s...

.... 2016 The Regents of the University of California Mandy Sadan Myanmar Burma Daw Aung San Suu Kyi elections National League Democracy Panglong Agreement democracy nationalism communal violence British colonial legacy Buddhism ethnic minorities 214 Burmese politicians...

... agribusiness agriculture apartheid inequality land reform restitution rural land rights African National Congress Zimbabwe 181 Since the end of apartheid, South African land reform has struggled and so far failed to overcome extreme inequalities and historical injustices . . . Stalled Land...

... and the political opposition respects the procedures and norms of the democratic game. Democracy in Bangladesh is overshadowed by a bitter rivalry between the country s largest politi- cal parties, the Awami League (AL) under the cur- rent prime minister, Sheikh Hasina Wajid, and the Bangladesh National Party (BNP...

...-Busse Europe European Union Eastern Germany Angela Merkel Hungary Viktor Orbán Greece immigration asylum Christianity Islam NATO France National Front Britain UK Independence Party 89 Eastern Europe remains poorer and less democratically experienced than West- ern Europe...

... , by Kathleen R. McNamara Oxford University Press , 2015 © 2020 Current History. All rights reserved. 2020 The Regents of the University of California Gerard Delanty European Union Commission book review Politics Everyday Europe Kathleen McNamara national identity euro banal...

... 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...

...Susan Landau Why did the Obama administration treat threats against a Hollywood studio over a movie mocking North Korea as a matter of national security? It was sending a message to deter others. © 2020 Current History. All rights reserved. 2020 The Regents of the University of California...