... Heredia Democratic Republic Congo Félix Tshisekedi Joseph Kabila Mobutu Sese Seko democracy elections corruption human rights civil society water protest movements 175 The strategies Kabila adopted to avoid stepping down at the end of his term in December 2016 inadvertently...

... Path Tüpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement Alberto Fujimori terrorism human rights Abimael Guzmán Truth Reconciliation Commission museum collective memory history PERSPECTIVE Heat But Little Light: Peru s Memory Debates ALBERTO VERGARA 75 The permanent exhibition at Lima s Lugar de la...

... Curato Philippines Rodrigo Duterte narcotics drug war human rights death squads extrajudicial killings corruption governance populism democracy Benigno Aquino 209 Is one of Asia s oldest democracies rejecting its tradition of liberalism in exchange for a strongman who can restore...

... Reformasi movement student activists Suharto Islam religion human rights populism Jakarta Basuki Tjahaja Purnama Ahok Prabowo Subianto 222 Reformasi-era values concerning citizen welfare and the public good remain deeply entrenched among a small but vocal segment of society...

... Party democracy Khmer Rouge elections authoritarianism patronage human rights China dynastic rule 215 From local to national politics, the state, the party, and the personal interests of elites have merged into one machine. A Cambodian Fusion of Personality, Party, and the State KOSAL...

...Nicole Hirt In the long run, a policy whose main focus is on improving so-called border management in countries that are known to trample human rights and disrespect the rule of law cannot be successful. © 2018 Current History. All rights reserved. 2018 The Regents of the University...

...Omar G. Encarnación Despite a storied history, the human rights movement … has not fared well in the twenty-first century. © 2017 Current History. All rights reserved. 2017 The Regents of the University of California Omar Encarnación human rights liberal international order...

..., and a law criminalizing offensive language in literature, film, and theater. A proposal to exclude abortions from coverage under the public health service is in the legislative pipeline. The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has repeatedly found Russia guilty of passing 274 CURRENT HISTORY October...

... Menon genocide humanitarian intervention Universal Declaration Human Rights Syria Aleppo Rwanda Libya al-Qaddafi Barack Obama global norms PERSPECTIVE Does an international community exist? Up to a point. Certainly, world politics cannot be reduced to a ceaseless Hobbes- ian rivalry...

... war Jose Eduardo dos Santos People's Movement Liberation Angola UNITA oil wealth human rights Rafael Marques Luaty Beirão 175 Angola s rulers are faced with the rise of a generation that does not accept the political logic of the war, whereby dissent equaled treason. Youthful...

... is experiencing a serious human rights crisis. At first glance, the idea of such a crisis might seem like an anachronism. After all, the country made a transition to genuine democracy in 2000 after Mexican voters ended one of the longest-lasting autocracies in the twentieth century, the seven- decade rule...

... gay foreign policy Barack Obama Hillary Clinton Uganda United Nations Human Rights Council evangelicals 17 It is premature to gauge the full impact of the developed West s effort to sell gay rights to the developing world, but the early returns are not auspicious . . . The Troubled...

... , 2015 . © 2020 Current History. All rights reserved. 2020 The Regents of the University of California Monica Duffy Toft Elizabeth Shakman Hurd religious freedom human rights cultural imperialism Turkey Alevis Ottoman Empire book review To begin with, five facts:1...

... Arab Spring General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi Muslim Brotherhood Mohamed Morsi January 2011 uprising authoritarian rule human rights economic reforms Salafis Sinai 343 Sisi s focus on fighting terrorism has shifted the nation s political narrative from democracy and freedom...

... Ramzan Kadyrov human rights corruption torture Grozny European Court Human Rights Chechen War Islamists Aslan Byutukayev Russia 266 Kadyrov is engineering public identity through forced Islamization, manipulat- ing culture for political ends, and marginalizing the Russian constitution...

... Haberkorn Thailand coup martial law human rights civil liberties repression General Prayuth Chanocha National Council Peace Order Thaksin Shinawatra PERSPECTIVE Under cover of ambiguous pledges of reform, General Prayuth Chan-ocha and his junta, the National Council for Peace and Order...

... Court Human Rights UN UNASUR petroleum CNE Universal NTN24 49 Perhaps Maduro s biggest deficit is his personal lack of charisma in a govern- ment designed by, institutionalized around, and requiring a charismatic figure. The End of Chavismo? DAVID SMILDE Reliable polling at the end of 2014...

... Argentina Kirchner peron peronism Fernandez Fernández Néstor peronist lame-duck left-wing retrenchment kirchnerism political brand economic default commodity inflation crime banks NML Griesa vulture UNHRC human rights capital market UCR Vasquez Bachelet devaluation Scioli...

... norms institutions human rights gay rights 3After Current History began publication a hundred years ago, the world suffered a succession of horrors: world wars, depres- sion, totalitarian tyranny, genocide, nuclear ter- ror, environmental threats. These sorely tested the modern belief...

...Omar G. Encarnación The gay rights movement has emerged as the defining human rights cause of our time. © 2014 Current History. All rights reserved. 2014 The Regents of the University of California Omar Encarnación human rights gay rights gay marriage homosexuality international...