... Brazil election military dictatorship Jair Bolsonaro Lula da Silva Dilma Rousseff impeachment corruption Worker's Party Rio de Janeiro crime race relations misogyny collective memory history transitional justice 68 A central feature of Bolsonaro s pro-dictatorship campaign...

... Current History. All rights reserved. 2018 The Regents of the University of California Erol Balkan Ahmet Öncü Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan globalization middle class social mobility inequality education culture religion Justice and Development Party 350 The AKP s neoliberal...

... mobility middle class poverty labor migration informal economy economic development communism Chinese Communist Party Mao Zedong 203 In December 1978, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) formally announced its decision to leave the safe shores of economic policies based on state socialism...

...Kosal Path From local to national politics, the state, the party, and the personal interests of elites have merged into one machine. © 2018 Current History. All rights reserved. 2018 The Regents of the University of California Kosal Path Cambodia China Hun Sen Cambodian People's...

... Chinese University Press , 2018 © 2018 Current History. All rights reserved. 2018 The Regents of the University of California Jessica C. Teets book review Red Swan Sebastian Heilmann Xi Jinping Mao Zedong Deng Xiaoping Chinese Communist Party communism governance reform...

... 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...

...Anna Grzymala-Busse The one bright light in this darkening landscape is that Poles remain committed to democracy. © 2018 Current History. All rights reserved. 2018 The Regents of the University of California Anna Grzymala-Busse Poland democracy populism judiciary Law Justice Party...

... of California David Art xenophobia nationalism Germany Austria Switzerland Austrian Freedom Party Austrian People's Party Sebastian Kurz Alternative Germany Swiss People's Party European Union immigration refugees PERSPECTIVE The Radical Right s Gains in the Heart of Europe DAVID...

... Ecuador Lenín Moreno Rafael Correa Country Alliance party elections corruption Odebrecht Panama Papers authoritarianism democratic transition 49 Rather than take marching orders from the outgoing president, Moreno distanced his government from the authoritarianism and corruption...

... Fujimori authoritarianism democracy institutions Popular Force party corruption pardon impeachment indigenous groups 56 Peru is trapped in a cycle of political instability, which prevents a focus on strengthening democratic institutions. Peru s Struggle with the Fujimori Legacy STEPHANIE...

... 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...

... corruption bribery President Xi Jinping Chinese Communist Party state-owned enterprises business economy power wealth 210 Xi s crackdown on corruption has focused new attention on the much deeper issue of the relationship between power and wealth in contemporary China. China s Corruption...

... 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...

... European Union Brexit immigration free trade class education voters Theresa May David Cameron Nigel Farage UK Independence Party Donald Trump 107 [T]he drift toward Brexit reflected a slow but persistent shift in the overall struc- ture and attitudes of the country s electorate...

... Holly Case Hungary Viktor Orbán Young Democrats Poland Jarosław Kaczyński Law and Justice party Fidesz populism refugee crisis immigration Islam authoritarianism Eastern Europe illiberalism communism PERSPECTIVE There s a lot we re getting wrong if we see the illiberal...

...Kerem Öktem [W]hat sort of country is going to emerge from this revolutionary reshaping of society? © 2016 Current History. All rights reserved. 2016 The Regents of the University of California Kerem Öktem Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Justice Development Party coup attempt...

... of California Dov Waxman Israel democracy intolerance extremism Knesset Palestinians West Bank settlements Jewish state Likud Party Benjamin Netanyahu illiberal PERSPECTIVE Israel has long proudly proclaimed itself to be the sole democracy in the Middle East, and its supporters around...

... of California Jeff Kingston Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe economic reforms Liberal Democratic Party tsunami Fukushima nuclear power free press World War II comfort women self-defense forces 233 One of the great conundrums of Abe s second term is how he has managed to retain...

... , 2016 © 2016 Current History. All rights reserved. 2016 The Regents of the University of California Patricia Thornton Frank Dikötter China Cultural Revolution Mao Zedong Communist Party Red Guard Roderick MacFarquhar This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Cultural...

... The Regents of the University of California Aqil Shah Bangladesh Awami League Sheikh Hasina Wajid Bangladesh National Party Khaleda Zia Jamaat-e-Islami Islamists General Ziaur Rahman civil war Pakistan war crimes International Crimes Tribunal 130 The prospects for successful...