... David Mitchell Northern Ireland Britain United Kingdom Ireland Irish Republican Army Sinn Féin power-sharing peace sectarian violence Brexit European Union Good Friday Agreement 89 It remains an open question whether power-sharing can operate with sufficient mutual trust when...

... 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...

... consequences. © 2015 Current History. All rights reserved. 2015 The Regents of the University of California Samer Abboud Syria Free Syrian Army Local Coordination Committees Bashar al-Assad Turkey Islamic State ISIS Lebanon civil war 337 With major regional powers in disagreement...

...Humeira Iqtidar [T]he decade and a half of demands placed on the army since the start of the war have opened up a growing chasm within the ranks that is beginning to threaten its viability as the main arm of American influence … © 2015 Current History. All rights reserved. 2015 The Regents...

... 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...

... Myanmar Joshua Kurlantzick Daw Aung San Suu Kyi China United States Saffron Revolution National League for Democracy U Myint People's Liberation Army Kachin Independence Army 242 China, other Asian nations, and the United States remain unprepared for Myan- mar to spark a refugee...

... Liberation Army 264 BOOKS Just as China s rapidly expanding economy has given the country a level of global political influence that it has not enjoyed in several hundred years, so Beijing s military moderniza- tion efforts have produced Chinese armed forces that, for the first time in the modern era...

... for Latin Americans of diverse identities. In 1994 Mexico s predominantly indigenous Zapatista National Liberation Army became the Latin American face of anti-neoliberalism. But today Venezu- ela s Hugo Chávez more famously embodies the region s rejection of US policies and its drive for closer economic...

... Army in Uganda, the Mai Mai in Congo, or the many factions in Liberia s civil war are often presented as lacking any resemblance to recognizable patterns of armed resis- tance or political conflict. If analyzed at all, these movements typically are viewed either as unique pathologies or as solely about...

... 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...

... of California Albanians Balkans Bosnia ethnicities Kosovo Kosovo Liberation Army Macedonia National Liberation Army Skopje Yugoslavia Macedonia: Melting Pot or Meltdown? DUNCAN PERRY In early 2001, the Republic of Macedonia becamethe target of a sustained Albanian guerrilla insur-gency...

... of the University of California Albanian Balkan Dayton Kosova Kosova Liberation Army Macedonia Milosevic NATO Rugova Serbian Instead of shutting out new ways of interpreting Kosova s problems and giving a monopoly of authority to a small clique of dubious characters, it should be stressed...

... The Regents of the University of California criminal tribunal Kosovo Liberation Army Kostunica Milosevic opposition Otpor! protests Serbia Yugoslavia 109 The political scene in Serbia changed dramat-ically in the fall of 2000 when Yugoslav Pres-ident Slobodan Milosevic lost the September...