... The Regents of the University of California Triadafilos Triadafilopoulos Germany immigration guest workers refugee crisis asylum Islam Angela Merkel employment labor integration Alternative Germany 108 The German experience shows that liberal democracies are able to develop effective...

...Martin Ruhs New policy designs will need to have an explicit dual purpose, combining the objectives of labor migration and humanitarian protection. © 2019 Current History. All rights reserved. 2019 The Regents of the University of California Martin Ruhs refugee crisis refugees labor...

...Julia Lynch; Jonathan Hopkin [T]he financial crisis can be best understood as the final catastrophic stage of a process of dismantling the protective institutions that made Western European capitalism politically sustainable … © 2018 Current History. All rights reserved. 2018 The Regents...

...Aaron Reeves [S]hort-term policy changes can have long-term effects on the health and well-being of the population. © 2018 Current History. All rights reserved. 2018 The Regents of the University of California Aaron Reeves Great Recession financial crisis public health life...

...Ilene Grabel At least one good thing may have emerged from the crisis: new international lending institutions led by developing nations are challenging and complementing the old US-dominated regime. © 2018 Current History. All rights reserved. 2018 The Regents of the University of California...

...Jacqueline Best Politicians proved unwilling to do the hard work of challenging vested interests and convincing electorates of the need for more profound reforms in the aftermath of the crisis. © 2018 Current History. All rights reserved. 2018 The Regents of the University of California...

...Harold James A new account of the 2008 crisis and the turbulent decade that followed shows how global capitalism's self-inflicted wounds accelerated major geopolitical realignments. © 2018 Current History. All rights reserved. 2018 The Regents of the University of California Harold James...

... of the University of California Jeffrey Edward Green liberalism liberal democracy economic inequality financial crisis welfare income wealth poverty education plutocracy taxes PERSPECTIVE Has Inequality Led to a Crisis for Liberalism? JEFFREY EDWARD GREEN JEFFREY EDWARD GREEN is an associate...

... of the University of California Joyce Marie Mushaben Germany chancellor Angela Merkel refugee crisis asylum Muslims integration assimilation immigration Syria Turkey North Africa 95 What Merkel s critics underestimate is the extent to which her proactive poli- cies of the past decade...

...Barry Eichengreen The euro crisis may have been an inevitable result of the ideologically driven arguments for adopting the common currency—or of incompatible national economic philosophies. The Euro: How a Common Currency Threatens the Future of Europe , by Joseph E. Stiglitz . W.W...

... 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...

...Jonathan Kirshner The United States is unrepaired and still vulnerable; Europe is hobbled and encumbered by the patchwork straitjacket of its political economy. The rest of the world, less directly affected by the crisis, is actively searching for something different. © 2020 Current History. All...

...-in crisis khan PPP TTP Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan 130 [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 . . . War-Weary Pakistan s...

... Jones political economy policy making maker consensus EU bailout crisis crises euro eurocrisis Eurozone quantitative easing central bank ECB QE solidarity assets liquidity governing cuncile bundesbank draghi merkel angela debt weidmann budgeting austerity redistribution...

...- rious crisis the Great Depression of the 1930s did they actually build nations. For it was only with the economic nationalist policies that suc- ceeded the Depression, including industrialization and urbanization, that the Latin American states acquired the resources, and therefore the ability...

... in a series on resurgent nationalism. © 2015 Current History. All rights reserved. 2015 The Regents of the University of California Avi Roshwald global crisis failure nation-state nationalism resurgent identity politics integration globalization globalization historical memory threats...

... of eastern Ukraine. The crisis is also clearly about much more than just Ukraine. It will therefore have longer-lasting consequences than previous local crises, such as Ukraine s 2004 Orange Revolution, or even the Russian war in Georgia in 2008. The immediate causes were, of course, local. Ukraine has been...

...Kathryn C. Lavelle [F]or the democratic political and capitalist economic systems to survive, a government's response to a crisis must rise above the interests of one class alone. Widespread social unrest signals the need to reformulate the regulatory order. © 2013 Current History. All rights...

...Barry Eichengreen It almost seems as if the European economic model is continuously experiencing an existential crisis. © 2013 Current History. All rights reserved. 2013 The Regents of the University of California Barry Eichengreen capitalism European Union euro debt crisis...

... . Penguin , 2013 . © 2013 Current History. All rights reserved. 2013 The Regents of the University of California William Finan Neil Irwin central banks financial crisis Ben Bernanke monetary policy Jean-Claude Trichet Mervyn King Even the most practical man of affairs...