... policy Washington mano duro Nicaragua 43 Last year, a 15-year-old girl was sexual-ly assaulted by gang members who con-trolled her working-class neighborhood in El Salvador. The gang threatened to kill her and her family if she reported the crime to the authori- ties, and forced her to extort...

...Bruce Cumings Beijing's grabs for puny islands have alarmed and alienated smaller countries in the region. But Washington doesn't need to “pivot” to Asia–it's been in charge there for decades. © 2014 Current History. All rights reserved. 2014 The Regents of the University of California...

... The Regents of the University of California Elizabeth Sidiropoulos south Africa soft power pariah paragon china Nye Nigeria postcolonial Beijing consensus Washington frontline states Pretoria national party Zulu Inkatha congress ANC COSATU AU union Zuma president SAIIA Nepad...

...Thandika Mkandawire For more than a decade, African policy making was limited to a narrow space prescribed by the Washington Consensus. Things are changing now, facilitated by the collapse of that doctrine. © 2014 Current History. All rights reserved. 2014 The Regents of the University...

... Washington self-delusion hamid gul DIA Al Qaeda Taliban counterparts Zulfikar Ali Bhutto B ooks The Pathological Alliance Sumit Ganguly Few of America s bilateral ties have been as Haqqani s book Magnificent Delusions represents fraught as those with Pakistan. Since 1958, a milestone. Haqqani...

...Michael Shifter Signs of frustration are unmistakable in Washington and in many Latin American capitals, despite Obama's immense personal appeal and the continued promise of a more productive partnership. © 2010 Current History. All rights reserved. 2010 The Regents of the University...

... Caribbean IMF inflation gross domestic product foreign exchange terms trade Brady Plan Washington Consensus Free Trade Area World 58 All Latin American and Caribbean countries will be hard pressed to maintain satisfactory rates of GDP growth during the next two years, and perhaps longer...

... 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...

...James E. Mahon, Jr. Latin Americans might have expected, after following the free-market economic policies of the ‘Washington consensus’ for a dozen years, that the region would have begun to savor the fruits of openness. But with some exceptions—notably Chile, Costa Rica, and much of Mexico...