...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...

... 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...

... 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...

... Bridget Welsh Singapore Lee Kuan Yew People's Action Party Lee Hsien Loong social policy government spending benefits nationalism foreign workers ethnic minorities 236 The party Lee founded . . . is grappling with the question of how to hold onto power in the face of a more...

... 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...

... elections. The NLD boycot- ted the vote, arguing that the run-up to the polls was heavily weighted against the opposition though several smaller opposi- tion and ethnic parties did contest the elections, along with two larger parties linked to the mili- tary. To few people s surprise, the main military...

... Kiir Sudanese civil war Comprehensive Peace Agreement Sudan People's Liberation Movement Abyei Border Commission © 2011 Current History. All rights reserved. 2011 The Regents of the University of California 171 If events go as planned, southern Sudan in just weeks will separate...

... Muslims immigration Party Freedom Christian Democrat Appeal People's Party Freedom Democracy Mark Rutte 110 Variations of Geert Wilders s xenophobic message are shared by the majority of the political parties represented in the Dutch parliament. The Famous Dutch (In)Tolerance Jan Erk...

... Front Democracy Against Dictatorship Abhisit Vejjajiva People's Alliance Democracy Bangkok 258 In May 2010, when a month-long siege of Bang-kok s elite Ratchaprasong district by red-shirt protesters ended, calm returned to Thailand s capital. But 85 people had died during the unrest...

... requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Press's Reprints and Permissions web page, https://www.ucpress.edu/journals/reprints-permissions . 2010 Current History China United States security dilemma Shangri-La Dialogue People's...

... 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...

... of California Nigeria Umaru Yar'Adua People's Democratic Party Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab Goodluck Jonathan Federal Executive Council Olusegun Obasanjo Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Excess Crude Account 179 Nothing, wrote Reuben Abati, the editor...

...Nira Wickramasinghe Rajapaksa's patriotism merges nation and state, and it promotes a love of country based on a particular reading of the Sinhalese people's foundation myth, a reading in which all other groups … are present only as shadows. © 2010 Current History. All rights reserved. 2010...

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