Current HistoryPub Date : 2024-02-01DOI: 10.1525/curh.2024.123.850.74
Alexandra Délano Alonso
{"title":"Migrants in Waiting in Mexico","authors":"Alexandra Délano Alonso","doi":"10.1525/curh.2024.123.850.74","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.2024.123.850.74","url":null,"abstract":"Under the presidency of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Mexico has abandoned plans for a more humane migration policy. Faced with increasing flows of asylum seekers from elsewhere in the hemisphere, the Mexican government has adopted a strategy of control and enforcement that mirrors the US approach.","PeriodicalId":45614,"journal":{"name":"Current History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139818947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Current HistoryPub Date : 2024-02-01DOI: 10.1525/curh.2024.123.850.69
Carla Guerrón Montero
{"title":"Panama’s Path Since the US Invasion","authors":"Carla Guerrón Montero","doi":"10.1525/curh.2024.123.850.69","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.2024.123.850.69","url":null,"abstract":"The Panama Canal opened in 1914. Six decades later, the United States agreed to transfer its ownership of the Canal to Panama. In 1989, a US invasion ended decades of military rule. Today, Panama is a democratic country with a robust economy. Tourism and other service industries have displaced the Canal as the primary source of income. Many North American retirees now call Panama home, lured there by its relative stability, lower cost of living, and government-sponsored incentives. However, the country is still dealing with the legacy of its past in the form of social and economic inequities among segments of its population.","PeriodicalId":45614,"journal":{"name":"Current History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139879301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Current HistoryPub Date : 2024-02-01DOI: 10.1525/curh.2024.123.850.56
Will Freeman
{"title":"Can Ecuador Avoid Becoming a Narco-State?","authors":"Will Freeman","doi":"10.1525/curh.2024.123.850.56","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.2024.123.850.56","url":null,"abstract":"Ecuador until recently was known as a haven of relative peace in its region, but it is in the process of being transformed by surging crime. The country’s homicide rate is now among the highest in Latin America; a presidential candidate campaigning on an anti-crime platform was assassinated in 2023. Since 2020, increasingly brazen narco-traffickers have been battling for control of the country’s ports, and criminal gangs are threatening to capture the state. The origins of the crisis date back a decade and a half, and it has gathered momentum with policy blunders by successive presidents on both left and right.","PeriodicalId":45614,"journal":{"name":"Current History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139685981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Current HistoryPub Date : 2024-01-01DOI: 10.1525/curh.2024.123.849.3
Omar G Encarnación
{"title":"Transitional Justice at 40","authors":"Omar G Encarnación","doi":"10.1525/curh.2024.123.849.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.2024.123.849.3","url":null,"abstract":"Transitional justice, a movement devoted to bringing accountability to departed political regimes, has been the engine of the international human rights community in the past four decades. But while much has been said about how transitional justice enables successful democratic transitions, some of the movement’s legacy is more checkered—from endangering such transitions to rekindling old feuds and undermining the rule of law. Acknowledging this seldom discussed darker side of transitional justice is not an argument against holding an old regime to account for its actions, but rather a recognition of the limits of what justice can do to advance democratization.","PeriodicalId":45614,"journal":{"name":"Current History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139125344","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Current HistoryPub Date : 2024-01-01DOI: 10.1525/curh.2024.123.849.37
Anirudh Krishna
{"title":"Will AI Slay the Poverty Dragon?","authors":"Anirudh Krishna","doi":"10.1525/curh.2024.123.849.37","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.2024.123.849.37","url":null,"abstract":"The rise of artificial intelligence and other new technologies has raised hopes that they might contribute to reducing poverty. History suggests that they need to be embedded in broader frameworks of institutions, regulations, and training.","PeriodicalId":45614,"journal":{"name":"Current History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139126421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Current HistoryPub Date : 2024-01-01DOI: 10.1525/curh.2024.123.849.20
Mia M. Bennett
{"title":"The Dark Arctic","authors":"Mia M. Bennett","doi":"10.1525/curh.2024.123.849.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.2024.123.849.20","url":null,"abstract":"The snow-white Arctic is darkening physically and economically. Climate change is turning frozen seas into open water and blackening snow and ice as soot spreads and algae propagates. At the same time, the region’s shadow economy is expanding. Illicit activities like human trafficking and fishing have long thrived in northern peripheries beyond state reach, while Russia’s transition to capitalism in the 1990s institutionalized the black market. The invasion of Ukraine further tightened ties between Russian Arctic resource development and criminal underworlds. With the Kremlin continuing northern extraction to fund the war and circumpolar diplomacy fracturing, the entire region is at risk of environmental and geopolitical degradation.","PeriodicalId":45614,"journal":{"name":"Current History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139128875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Current HistoryPub Date : 2024-01-01DOI: 10.1525/curh.2024.123.849.27
Cati Coe
{"title":"An Aging World Relies on Migrant Care Workers","authors":"Cati Coe","doi":"10.1525/curh.2024.123.849.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.2024.123.849.27","url":null,"abstract":"Around the world, societies are aging. Most governments have not prepared well for this demographic change, which requires a recalibration of existing social support programs like state pension and health care systems. Piecemeal state solutions have generated a reliance on migrant workers in elder care. This has worsened global inequalities in health care, subjected migrants to poor working conditions and exploitation, and revived racialized forms of domestic service for wealthy households in high-income countries. Finding fairer and more sustainable solutions to the demographic transition calls for innovative thinking and creative adaptation.","PeriodicalId":45614,"journal":{"name":"Current History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139125193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Current HistoryPub Date : 2024-01-01DOI: 10.1525/curh.2024.123.849.9
Barry Eichengreen
{"title":"The Return of Inflation","authors":"Barry Eichengreen","doi":"10.1525/curh.2024.123.849.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.2024.123.849.9","url":null,"abstract":"Inflation, after an extended absence, is back. Its resumption reflects a combination of supply and demand factors: supply-side disruptions to trade and production associated with COVID-19; and shifts in the composition of demand to goods from services, along with strong stimulus to spending owing to support payment provided by governments. There is disagreement about what to do in response: whether central banks should continue to respond with increases in interest rates, and whether there is a role for selective wage and price controls. Above all, there is disagreement about how long the inflation problem is likely to persist.","PeriodicalId":45614,"journal":{"name":"Current History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139127357","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Current HistoryPub Date : 2024-01-01DOI: 10.1525/curh.2024.123.849.14
Joanna I. Lewis
{"title":"The Climate Risk of Green Industrial Policy","authors":"Joanna I. Lewis","doi":"10.1525/curh.2024.123.849.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.2024.123.849.14","url":null,"abstract":"The proliferation of green industrial policy strategies around the world is taking place within a broader global context of a turn toward deglobalization and the pursuit of national self-sufficiency. The political economy of domestic renewable energy support and the basic principles of global trade regimes are in direct conflict, with direct implications for nations’ abilities to transition to low-carbon economies. Many are calling for decoupling clean energy supply chains from China, yet such responses could slow the global clean energy transition, increasing the cost of deployment in developing countries.","PeriodicalId":45614,"journal":{"name":"Current History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139128319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Current HistoryPub Date : 2024-01-01DOI: 10.1525/curh.2024.123.849.33
Laura Dudley Jenkins
{"title":"Can Affirmative Action Survive on the World’s Campuses?","authors":"Laura Dudley Jenkins","doi":"10.1525/curh.2024.123.849.33","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.2024.123.849.33","url":null,"abstract":"Affirmative action suffered a blow in the United States at the hands of the Supreme Court, but it continues to be used to extend access to higher education elsewhere—particularly in large, diverse democracies in the global South.","PeriodicalId":45614,"journal":{"name":"Current History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139129681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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