... refugees Myanmar military junta Burma Bangladesh British Empire colonialism migration Buddhists Muslims Rakhine ethnic cleansing genocide Aung San Suu Kyi 149 Myanmar has consolidated its impunity, making its crimes a fait accompli. To do so, it first destabilized the legitimacy...

... colonial legacies legal system education policy Eric Anchimbe Africa Cameroon language conflict France Britain colonialism postcolonial ethnic rivalry Anglophone Problem 169 [T]he intertwined nature of language, politics, and identity permeates the nation, its institutions...

...K. Ochieng' Opalo [T]he conflicts surrounding the 2017 elections severely eroded the integrity of democracy in Kenya. © 2018 Current History. All rights reserved. 2018 The Regents of the University of California K. Ochieng'Opalo Kenya presidential elections democracy violence ethnic...

... refugees terrorism genocide ethnic cleansing Buddhist Muslim Aung San Suu Kyi South Asia 129 Bangladesh has neither the military nor the diplomatic power to force a solution on Myanmar. Bangladesh Copes With the Rohingya Crisis By Itself NAVINE MURSHID Growing up in Bangladesh in the 1980s...

.... 2016 The Regents of the University of California Mandy Sadan Myanmar Burma Daw Aung San Suu Kyi elections National League Democracy Panglong Agreement democracy nationalism communal violence British colonial legacy Buddhism ethnic minorities 214 Burmese politicians...

... of the University of California Amanda Snellinger Nepal constitution separatism ethnic politics youth Madhesi movements Maoists Tarai Birganj Kathmandu earthquake India Constituent Assembly PERSPECTIVE In May 2013 I arrived in Birganj, a border town in southern Nepal s Parsa district, to do...

... Bridget Welsh Singapore Lee Kuan Yew People's Action Party Lee Hsien Loong social policy government spending benefits nationalism foreign workers ethnic minorities 236 The party Lee founded . . . is grappling with the question of how to hold onto power in the face of a more...

... postelection violence elections African politics ethnic identity patronage © 2015 Current History. All rights reserved. 2015 The Regents of the University of California 183 [T]he ICC s intervention did not help prompt a political transition, but was instead effectively framed as an injustice...

... of California Alex de Waal Africa South Sudan independence civil war corruption oil ethnic conflict African Union United Nations PERSPECTIVE When they celebrated independence on July 9, 2011, the people of South Sudan hoped that the fundamental problems that had doomed the united nation...

... of the University of California Adam Luedtke public impulse immigration European Europe Policy policymaking making control cooperation nation sovereignty violence order Middle East North Africa EU frontex ethnic conflict Cold War national identity xenophobia Schengen Balkan...

...Brendan O'Leary There are dangerous sparks and embers of national, ethnic, and cultural conflict throughout the continent, capable of causing new conflicts and reanimating old ones, but they are mostly subdued by historical standards. © 2015 Current History. All rights reserved. 2015...

...Mark Levene [T]he war undoubtedly acted as a major catalyst to an aspect of the modern world we have seen time and time again, namely the mobilization of ethnic groups by great powers for their own geopolitical interests. © 2014 Current History. All rights reserved. 2014 The Regents...

...Yan Sun A better understanding of the flaws in China's ethnic policy would help ease the vicious cycle of ever more sticks and carrots in dealing with sensitive regions. © 2014 Current History. All rights reserved. 2014 The Regents of the University of California Yan Sun Xinjiang Tibet...

... The Regents of the University of California Lovise Aalen Ethiopia Meles stability zenawi EPRDF TPLF leader prime minister succession death resign elections Richard joseph political life censorship Hailemariam protestant membership ethnic chauvinism nationalism 192 [A]lthough...

... Balkans Croatia Serbia Bosnia Kosovo Macedonia Montenegro European Union ethnic nationalism reconciliation war crimes 107 Croatia has bought its ticket to Brussels, and Montenegro could be next, while Ser- bia, Bosnia, Macedonia, and Kosovo are stuck in a crowded, smoky waiting room...

... election ethnic violence class Mwai Kibaki Raila Odinga constitution reform inequality Daniel arap Moi Uhuru Kenyatta 181 [T]he country has bought a short amount of time in which to entrench the new constitution, wield it for reform, and battle ghosts of the past. Kenya Struggles to Fix...

... rights reserved. 2009 The Regents of the University of California David Finkel surge Iraq George Bush ethnic cleansing 432 BOOKS The surge. Like so much associated with Iraq and the Bush years, the event itself as Nietzsche said of the French Revolution has disappeared beneath...

.... … As the 2002 election begins to loom, echoes of the repression of the one-party era have begun to be felt. © 2001 Current History. All rights reserved. 2001 The Regents of the University of California Africa civil society democracy economy ethnic Kenya IMF Moi Nairobi reform 201 The year...

... of California democracy ethnic federalism military rule Muslims Nigeria Obasanjo oil shariah Yoruba Halfway into its inaugural four-year term,Nigeria s new democracy is vexed by con-tradictions that compound the dismal legacy of more than 15 years of abusive military rule. The return...

...Miriam Young Sri Lanka's troubles will be solved only through a political settlement that guarantees the fundamental freedom and human dignity of all Sri Lanka's citizens, regardless of ethnic or religious identity. © 2020 Current History. All rights reserved. 2020 The Regents of the University...