... is not as favorable as it was before or during the 2015 refugee crisis, a majority of younger Germans and residents of large cities and towns remain committed to diversity. Most tellingly, the steady liberalization of immigration policy continues, driven by employers demand for skilled workers. A return to a time...

...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...

... poli- cies of the past decade encouraging integration and intercultural opening have produced an even bigger paradigm shift . . . Angela Merkel s Leadership in the Refugee Crisis JOYCE MARIE MUSHABEN Historical legacy was probably not a term that crossed Angela Merkel s mind during the turbu-lent...

...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. For economists, the euro crisis is the gift that never stops giving. Casual observers might think...

... has blamed Soros for the refugee crisis. Illiberals falsely claim to be nonideological, while casting themselves as high priests of reality. 114 CURRENT HISTORY March 2017 SOCIALIST PLAYBOOK That the region s nationalism can be so different from what we expect is both good and bad news. It s good...

...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...

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...” Bolivarian revolution economic crisis crises depression class war independence indian mestizo Díaz mexico Venezuela neoliberalism socialism neoliberal Third World Ecuador Chávez Maduro oil gas morales 68 Latin American nationalism is unique in comparison with the nationalisms...

... 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 the University of California Andrew Wilson transition high stakes crisis Ukraine Russia Putin Vladimir West collapse communism Crimea Donbas Donbass invasion Russian cold war MH17 rebel Obama maidan USSR soviet protests Cossack hundred titushki orange Lypynsky Poroshenko...

... . 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...

...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...