... postcommunism nationalism Alexander Lukashenko Soviet Union World War II 258 Some of the state s recent initiatives have sought to reappropriate ethno-cultural and pre-Soviet history and tradition, shaping a new politics of identity. Belarus s Winding Path to a Post-Soviet Identity NELLY BEKUS...

... 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...

... Syria Iraq Palmyra Mosul Islamic State ISIS UNESCO iconoclasm archaeology looting world heritage sites terrorism 344 Far from being senseless acts perpetrated by barbarous savages, ISIS s heritage destruction has been carefully staged and sends clear and deliberate messages. Following...

... Ilene Grabel international lending institutions developing nations global financial architecture 2008 financial crisis Great Recession Bretton Woods International Monetary Fund World Bank United States PERSPECTIVE The Upside of a Messier Global Financial Architecture ILENE...

... book review Adam Tooze Crashed: Decade Financial Crises Changed World capitalism globalization financial crisis trade European Union Eurozone United States China Russia Ukraine The publication of Adam Tooze s passionate, readable, and lively analysis of the global fi-nancial...

...Thomas G. Weiss Sovereignty can be and has been interpreted more inclusively—including during World War II—to justify cooperation in the face of common, existential threats. © 2018 Current History. All rights reserved. 2018 The Regents of the University of California Thomas Weiss United...

... Hopewell trade protectionism liberal economic order hegemony United States Donald Trump China Brazil Global South International Monetary Fund World Bank Uruguay Round Doha Round North American Free Trade Agreement 303 [W]hat Trump has done so far represents an intensification...

... transcend Europe. Somehow, Russia would perfect Europeanness and share it with the world in a way that only Russia could. For Dostoevsky this meant Christianity, but his notion of Russia at the center of a universal brotherhood could just as easily be applied to the fourth of the great Abrahamic faiths...

...Karen E. Smith [A] more mercurial United States, less consistent in its support for European integration, could force the EU to rely more on itself. © 2017 Current History. All rights reserved. 2017 The Regents of the University of California Karen Smith European Union liberal world...

... lower- technology manufacturing jobs to jobs in more skill-intensive firms and industries. Trade likely is to blame for some of this dislocation: recent analy- ses of the China shock, caused by China s entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001, sug- gest that sectors of the US economy...

... 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...

..., and definitively turning a page in its history. African GDP indicators (if taken at face value) were relatively high from around 2000 onwards, with the continent enjoying some of the strongest economic growth in the world. This led some commentators, particularly in the media, to announce that Africa s time had...

... of the University of California Ruth Prince Africa Kenya Uganda HIV/AIDS malaria Ebola disease public health-care systems Gates Foundation World Health Organization International Monetary Fund nongovernmental organizations During the past 10 years, the scaling up of access to lifesaving...

... Graphs © 2020 Current History. All rights reserved. 2020 The Regents of the University of California Statistical Snapshot World A Statistical Snapshot of the World Sources: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, United Nations Broadband Commission, CIA World Factbook...

... of California William Easterly Sustainable Development Goals SDGs United Nations World Bank democracy economic growth 322 PERSPECTIVE One of the things that I have found most frustrating in my career in development is the way that any discussion must lead immediately to answering the question...

... reserved. 2015 The Regents of the University of California Uri Dadush international trade globalization inequality poverty World Trade Organization World Bank International Monetary Fund Trans-Pacific Partnership tariffs 298 [T]he most powerful underlying force driving increased...

... Suny . Princeton University Press , 2015 . © 2015 Current History. All rights reserved. 2015 The Regents of the University of California Howard Eissenstat Ronald Grigor Suny Armenian genocide Turkey Ottoman Empire Young Turks World War In 1985, 69 scholars of Turkish...

... 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...

... 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...

...James Siekmeier “Latin American nationalism is unique in comparison with the nationalisms of other regions in the developing world because it achieved political independence at least a century before it gained social and economic independence.” Fifth in a series on resurgent nationalism around...