...Marta Iñiguez de Heredia The strategies Kabila adopted to avoid stepping down at the end of his term in December 2016 inadvertently consolidated this new democratic wave. © 2019 Current History. All rights reserved. 2019 The Regents of the University of California Marta Iñiguez de...

... Shavkat Mirziyoyev Islam Karimov democratic reforms Soviet Union authoritarianism Islam Central Asia labor migration 277 [L]abor migration brought the country to a point of no return: millions of the poorest Uzbeks could no longer be cut off from the rest of the world . . . Uzbekistan...

... Ecuador Lenín Moreno Rafael Correa Country Alliance party elections corruption Odebrecht Panama Papers authoritarianism democratic transition 49 Rather than take marching orders from the outgoing president, Moreno distanced his government from the authoritarianism and corruption...

... of the University of California Jennifer Delton liberal international order democracy Cold War civil rights United States Donald Trump liberalism New Deal Democratic Party Republican Party Harry Truman Dwight Eisenhower Ronald Reagan 297 What was remarkable about the era of liberal...

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... order illiberalism United States Donald Trump Russia integration democratic values democracy Brexit United Kingdom trade In the range of international responses to Don-ald Trump s victory in the November 2016 US presidential election, German Chancellor An- gela Merkel s stood out. She...

... of California Jeff Kingston Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe economic reforms Liberal Democratic Party tsunami Fukushima nuclear power free press World War II comfort women self-defense forces 233 One of the great conundrums of Abe s second term is how he has managed to retain...

...Philip Oxhorn [N]ew ideas and new actors are needed to fill the void in the region's public sphere more than ever. © 2020 Current History. All rights reserved. 2020 The Regents of the University of California Philip Oxhorn democratic transition public sphere propaganda censorship...

...Matthew M. Taylor Whichever way the impeachment train rolls, the … crisis has opened new fissures in a democratic system that has been in place only since 1985. 68 Whichever way the impeachment train rolls, the . . . crisis has opened new fissures in a democratic system that has been in place only...

... of California Alexis Dudden Japan Constitution Article antiwar clause Shinzo Abe National Diet Liberal Democratic Party Self-Defense Forces peacekeeping World War II Nobusuke Kishi 224 [A]n overwhelming majority of Japanese wants to protect the constitution using the same word...

... Maduro government Venezuela United Socialist Party (PSUV) Chavez Chávez petrostate oil charisma economic failure reform Dutch disease Caracazo ideology Perez Pérez Ramirez Merentes pacted democracy opposition Aveledo Democratic Unity Roundtable coalition inter-American...

.... © 2014 Current History. All rights reserved. 2014 The Regents of the University of California Michael Eppel Kurdish nationalism kobani isis isil Islamic state KRG regional government Iraq iran stateless karasu Democratic union PYD Iraq Iran Syria movement nation-state...

... reserved. 2014 The Regents of the University of California Frederic Volpi Revolution Reform Stasis Maghreb Arab Tunisia Morocco Algeria democratic governance uprisings Ben Ali pact regime nonviolent transition ammar Rachid general Egypt RCD Ennahda constitutional rally...

... judicial reforms socialist Germany democratic parliament nastase verification bloc postcommunist members membership organized crime NATO 117 Unless Bulgaria and Romania manage to enact judicial reforms, fight corrup- tion and organized crime, and protect human and minority rights...

...Larry Diamond Despite setbacks in some countries, democracy has no legitimate competitor. © 2014 Current History. All rights reserved. 2014 The Regents of the University of California Larry Diamond liberal democracy authoritarian regimes dictatorship Cold War democratic...

... Japan Naoto Kan Democratic Party Japan Fukushima Daiichi Liberal Democratic Party Ichiro Ozawa Tokyo Electric Yukio Hatoyama Social Democratic Party Japan 217 Japan s political leaders have failed to deliver decisive action precisely when the country needed it most when it faced...

...Thomas Turner The real question is not whether Kabila will win reelection, but how he has survived for 10 years in the presidency. © 2011 Current History. All rights reserved. 2011 The Regents of the University of California Joseph Kabila Thomas Turner Democratic Republic Congo...

... Calderón drug violence Party Democratic Revolution Ernesto Zedillo United States Vicente Fox Institutional Revolutionary Party trade National Action Party 68 Weak economic performance . . . and the great rise in violence and insecurity associated with the war on drugs have contributed...

...Steven Vogel The Democratic Party of Japan achieved a historic victory in 2009, one that will have a lasting impact on Japanese politics. Yet the party since then has delivered … too much political overhaul and too little policy substance. © 2010 by the Regents of the University of California...

... Ethiopia Haile Selassie Coalition Unity Democracy Eritrea Eritrean People's Liberation Front Meles Zenawi Ethiopian Revolutionary Democratic Mengistu Mariam Tigrayan 186 Once the 2010 election passes without any meaningful change, the real contest among rival political and ethnic...