...Joshua Lustig A rising middle class in Pakistan is striving to reconcile aspirations for a modern lifestyle with a desire for a deeper embrace of Islam as a guide to everyday ethics. The New Pakistani Middle Class , by Ammara Maqsood Harvard University Press , 2017 © 2018 Current...

... of the University of California Jennifer Delton liberal international order democracy Cold War civil rights United States Donald Trump liberalism New Deal Democratic Party Republican Party Harry Truman Dwight Eisenhower Ronald Reagan 297 What was remarkable about the era of liberal...

...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...

... identifiable beyond their borders and beyond their control. HELPLESS DEMOCRACY This new populism bears more than a pass- ing resemblance to the old Populism of the late nineteenth-century United States. The Populist Revolt was a complex phenomenon, as John D. Hicks showed in his classic book of the same name...

... Viking , 2016 Putinism: Russia and Its Future with the West , by Walter Laqueur St. Martin's Press , 2015 The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin , by Steven Lee Myers Knopf , 2015 © 2016 Current History. All rights reserved. 2016 The Regents...

... Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan Collective Security Treaty Organization New Silk Road Economic Belt oil gas pipelines Xi Jinping Vladimir Putin 272 China is the increasingly dominant power in the region, but it is acting in full concordance with Russia. China and Russia s Soft Competition...

... The Regents of the University of California Gregory Chin China President Xi Jinping foreign policy trade multilateral institutions New Development Bank Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Silk Road Economic Belt Maritime Silk 217 Beijing has come to realize that multilateral...

... security conflict collaboration new space race Europe ESA Pakistan india china Israel satellites debris pollution regulation traffic iridium cold war military asteroid mining disarmament isotopes station international cooperation comprehensive test ban ariane tiangong-1...

...Kate Merkel-Hess New books by Evan Osnos and Louisa Lim show the profound dissonance between official amnesia and personal recollections of the Tiananmen tragedy. Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China , by Evan Osnos . Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 2014...

...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...

... Russia reset China Barack Obama New START treaty Libya Syria Central Asia 281 PERSPECTIVE Eighteen months ago it appeared that US President Barack Obama was succeeding in improving relations with Moscow, a task that his two predecessors, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, failed to accomplish...

... Europe United States George Bush United Nations Iraq NATO Germany Vietnam EU New Transatlantic Agenda Views on the postwar evolution of transat-lantic relations can be divided into twobroad camps. A realist view holds that, even before the Iraq War, relations between Europe and America...

... Current History. All rights reserved. 2003 The Regents of the University of California Aldous Huxley George Orwell Brave New World 1984 China Big Brother Newspeak Communism Tiananmen Karl Marx 266 In October 1949, one of Eric Blair s former teach-ers at Eton College sat down...

... economy FDI Cyberabad New Delhi agriculture tariffs Narashima Rao liberalization trade 176 Renewing the momentum of reform, and thereby broadening and reviving growth, is essential if India is to achieve its economic goal of breaking out of the third world. India s Economic Liberalization...

... The Regents of the University of California deregulation diaspora e-commerce e-governance illiteracy India information technology Internet media New Delhi 162 This January the northern Indian city of Alla-habad hosted the Maha Kumbh Mela, thelargest religious event in the world. More than...