Monday, December 25, 2023

Now Out Current Histoty January 2024 Issue 123 (Issue 849)

 


Current History’s January 2024 issue, the annual Global Trends issue, is now available in print and on our website at https://online.ucpress.edu/currenthistory/issue/123/849. The issue is free access in its entirety for a limited time and features the following essays:


Transitional Justice at 40: A Critical Appraisal
Omar G. Encarnación (Bard College)
In some cases, holding old political regimes accountable for their crimes has hindered countries’ transitions to democracy and eroded the rule of law.

The Return of Inflation
Barry Eichengreen (University of California, Berkeley)
Economists who thought deflation was a greater danger than rising prices did not foresee the unprecedented supply-side disruptions wrought by a pandemic and a war.

The Climate Risk of Green Industrial Policy
Joanna I. Lewis (Georgetown University)
Proliferating state interventions to promote local green industries in response to China’s dominance in the field could slow the global clean energy transition.

The Dark Arctic
Mia M. Bennett (University of Washington)
While climate change melts the circumpolar North, unscrupulous operators are exploiting resources and vulnerable populations in a region where monitoring and regulation are sparse.

An Aging World Relies on Migrant Care Workers
Cati Coe (Carleton University)
To care for older adults at home, Western societies have turned to migrant workers in arrangements that often amount to domestic servitude.

PERSPECTIVE
Can Affirmative Action Survive on the World’s Campuses?
Laura Dudley Jenkins (University of Cincinnati)
Despite a backlash against race-based preferences in the United States and elsewhere, some countries continue to prioritize access to higher education for disadvantaged groups.

BOOKS
Will AI Slay the Poverty Dragon?
Anirudh Krishna (Duke University)
The latest technologies could help the world’s poorest people, but the history of previous innovations that raised similar hopes shows that thoughtful policies are also needed.

FROM THE ARCHIVES
Why Have Progressive Schools?
John Dewey
Excerpts from an essay published by Current History in 1933.

 

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Current History publishes nine times per year. Each month’s issue focuses on a single region or topicincluding annual issues on Africa, China and East Asia, Russia and Eurasia, the Middle East, Latin America, South Asia, Europe, and Global Trends, plus special issues on topics such as Human–Nonhuman Relations, Learning from the Pandemic, Climate Transformations, and Rethinking Criminal Justice.

Essays relating to global trends available online in Current History’s archives include:

The Unfolding Sovereign Debt Crisis by Layna Mosley and B. Peter Rosendorff
The Specter of Deglobalization by T. V. Paul
Is There a Cure for Vaccine Nationalism? by Ana Santos Rutschman
The Rise of Data-Driven Governance
 by David Chandler
New Middle Classes Reshape the Developing World by Frank-Borge Wietzke
Can Labor Immigration Work for Refugees? by Martin Ruhs
The Elusive Goal of Global Food Security by Rosamond L. Naylor
From Scarcity to Abundance: The New Geopolitics of Energy by Michael T. Klare
The Growing Importance of Diaspora Politics by Fiona B. Adamson
The Global Challenge of the Refugee Exodus by Gallya Lahav
The Global Crisis of the Nation-State by Aviel Roshwald
The Geopolitics of Cyberspace After Snowden by Ron Deibert
The Power Paradox by Amrita Narlikar
Rediscovering Internationalism by Glenda Sluga
Can America Keep Its Global Role? by Michael Mandelbaum
Weathering the Climate Crisis by Sheila Jasanoff
The Quest for Global Governance by G. John Ikenberry
The Information Revolution and Power by Joseph S. Nye Jr.
Is There a Proper Sequence for Democratic Transitions? by Francis Fukuyama
Why the World Is More Peaceful by Steven Pinker
America’s Place in the Asian Century by Kishore Mahbubani
The New Face of Development by Carol Lancaster



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