... States, embracing Russia instead, following a trend set by other recent coups across the Sahel. © 2024 by The Regents of the University of California 2024 Niger Nigeria coups ECOWAS development poverty borders counterterrorism As I was being evacuated out of Niamey on a French...

...Seçil Dağtaş; Şule Can The displacement of Syrians into Turkey is approaching its twelfth year, but the conditions of Syrian presence in the country are still fraught with ambivalence. The dramatic changes in migration and border dynamics and the instrumentalization of Syrian migrants in Turkish...

...Till Mostowlansky Twenty-five years since the end of Tajikistan’s civil war in 1997, dreams and aspirations of international development and cross-border mobility in the country’s Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province, colloquially called “the Pamirs,” have evaporated. Once the mountainous region...

... in the impact its integration processes have had in societies just outside its borders. Its growing influence is most notable in misfit border territories, from Kaliningrad to Transnistria, and from Cyprus to Northern Ireland, that are tenuously under the political control of neighboring geopolitical powers...

...Pamela Kyle Crossley A new history of a border zone between Russia and China shows how traders from across Siberia and Mongolia operated under the shadow of competing empires and their railroads. © 2020 by The Regents of the University of California 2020 Russia China Mongolia Japan...

... of California Michael Woldemariam Eritrea Ethiopia Horn Africa Somalia Sudan Djibouti peace development democratization trade borders Gulf states Abiy Ahmed Ali Isaias Afwerki 181 [T]urning the page on decades of conflict and underdevelopment in the Horn of Africa will require...

... Agreement AfCFTA Africa free trade integration globalization African Union economic development borders informal economy 188 Ideally, the free movement of goods and services should coexist with the free movement of people. Pan-African Aspirations Drive a New Free Trade Pact CHRISTOPHER...

... China India trade alliances Belt Road Initiative Pakistan Myanmar Sri Lanka Maldives Bhutan borders South China Sea Xi Jinping Narendra Modi Gujarat foreign investment South Asia 142 Beijing s miscalculations regarding India have created conflict with a regional power that has...

...Marianne Kamp An anthropologist with long ties to a border town in Central Asia watched as nationalist sentiment turned what had been an informal boundary into a hard divide between erstwhile neighbors. Nationalism in Central Asia: A Biography of the Uzbekistan-Kyrgyzstan Boundary , by Nick...

...Nando Sigona Donald Trump vows to build a wall while Europe tries to pull up the drawbridge. A new book argues that borders violently enforce inequality, barring the global poor from prosperity. What and who are borders for? Reece Jones takes the thousands of boat mi-grants who have died crossing...

... Fanar Haddad Iraq borders colonialism sectarianism corruption Shia Sunni Kurds Middle East Sykes-Picot Ottoman Empire Baghdad nationalism 343 [F]ocusing on the supposed consequences of Iraq s artificial foundations diverts our attention from the real issues cumulative or immediate...

... European Union Germany Schengen Agreements Dublin Geneva Conventions open borders © 2020 Current History. All rights reserved. 2020 The Regents of the University of California 10 The refugee crises . . . amount to an emerging global challenge facing almost all industrialized liberal...

... recollections memory Tiananmen China Beijing Communist party-state age ambition chasing fortune truth faith revisited new Yorker reports without borders skynet han guangcheng chen ai weiwei Chengdu mothers guang The bargain made in China after the gov-ernment s violent suppression...