...Pavel K. Baev The Russian military has failed the tests of the Ukraine war, and its leadership and chain of command are seriously compromised. A costly modernization program failed to deliver the promised superiority in key weapon systems, offensive capabilities are exhausted, and the quality...

... Ukraine Russia war institutions military legitimacy national identity “The success of the Ukrainian state in repelling the Russian military onslaught and sustaining its operations in the first months of the war grew out of the humiliating experience of 2014.” On the morning...

...Michael T. Klare The progression from semiautonomous, unarmed supply robots to fully autonomous weapons systems is likely to occur rapidly and with limited public scrutiny. © 2020 Current History. All rights reserved. 2020 The Regents of the University of California military weapons...

...Ebenezer Obadare [T]he more distant the experience of military rule, the greater has been society's reconciliation to the reality of democracy as the only game in town. © 2019 Current History. All rights reserved. 2019 The Regents of the University of California Ebenezer Obadare Nigeria...

... 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...

... of California Akbar Zaidi Pakistan military Imran Khan foreign aid elite taxation China Belt Road Initiative Saudi Arabia International Monetary Fund World Bank PERSPECTIVE The Death Wish in Pakistan s Aid Dependence S. AKBAR ZAIDI 154 In the seven months since Imran Khan took...

... Brazil election military dictatorship Jair Bolsonaro Lula da Silva Dilma Rousseff impeachment corruption Worker's Party Rio de Janeiro crime race relations misogyny collective memory history transitional justice 68 A central feature of Bolsonaro s pro-dictatorship campaign...

... of California Michele Dunne Egypt coup Muslim Brotherhood Abdel Fattah el-Sisi Cairo Wedian Arab Spring military authoritarianism repression 355 By 2018, most Egyptians who had played important roles in public life between the mid-2000s and the 2013 coup were either in prison or in exile...

... Sara Rich Dorman Africa Zimbabwe Emmerson Mnangagwa Robert Mugabe liberation war Zimbabwe African National Union ZANU Morgan Tsvangirai military coup authoritarian rule land independence 163 In 1980, Robert Mugabe and his Zimbabwe Af-rican National Union (ZANU) party came...

... of the University of California Umair Javed Pakistan Nawaz Sharif military democracy corruption judiciary judges courts Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz Panama Papers Pervez Musharraf 123 On July 28, 2017, a Supreme Court verdict put Nawaz Sharif s name on the long list of deposed Pakistani...

... Sopranzetti Thailand Bangkok food military junta General Prayuth Chan-ocha King Maha Vajiralongkorn Prime Minister Yinluck Shinawatra authoritarianism everyday life 230 The regime s aim is to impose an authoritarian form of order on the country s makeshift and improvisatory everyday life...

...Pavel K. Baev Moscow may not be very good at learning lessons from setbacks, and certainly tends to exaggerate its successes, but it has few doubts about the feasibility of ‘military solutions’ and even fewer reservations about reaching for them. © 2016 Current History. All rights reserved. 2016...

... of the University of California Humeira Iqtidar Pakistan internal divides demands army military chasm America cleavages covert operations Khyber pakhtunkhwa balochistan Sindh tribal areas iran bush Nawaz sharif bizar chaudhry shehbaz Islamabad PTI tehreek-e-insaf dharna sit...

...Mark Kramer Nearly every senior official in Poland and the Baltic countries expressed great unease. Political leaders and military commanders in the region increasingly warned that Putin was intent on undermining NATO's resolve to protect their countries. © 2015 Current History. All rights...

... of California Hans Kundnani Germany role world Berlin Eurozone eurocrisis Ukraine geo-economic foreign policy imperatives friedensmacht gauck military peace merkel crimea Russia putin MH17 Malaysian ostpolitik brandt Kosovo nato 9/11 ARD united states germans NATO exports...

... security conflict collaboration new space race Europe ESA Pakistan india china Israel satellites debris pollution regulation traffic iridium cold war military asteroid mining disarmament isotopes station international cooperation comprehensive test ban ariane tiangong-1...

... Saudi Arabian kingdom sharia counterrevolution thermidorian thermidor shia sunni Islamism islamist salafi eastern province military gulf cooperation leadership regional 344 Saudi Arabia has emerged as the most vigorous stalwart of what can best be described as the reactionary...

... era political economic pariah military junta power behind 2011 aung san suu kyi thein sein NLD opposition National league democracy cease-fire civil war aung min cabinet union land seizure mandate kyat Burma Burmese ATM kachin budget defense security council...

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... Affairs , 2013 . © 2014 Current History. All rights reserved. 2014 The Regents of the University of California Sumit Ganguly Pakistan United States US relationship bilateral Husain Haqqani delusions magnificent soviet military leadership diplomacy war cold Islamabad...