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Introducing a New Chapter of Current History: A Q&A with Lindsay Shingler
Jun 03 2026
"We want to continue to engage with scholars, and push them outside their comfort zones to write for more general audiences with writing that delights and informs."
Authoritarianism and the Rule of Law: A Q&A with CPCS Associate Editor Alex Dukalskis
Mar 28 2022
"Asia has four of the world’s five remaining states organized explicitly on communist/Leninist lines: China, North Korea, Laos, and Vietnam. There is a rich diversity of topics to study with these four states alone."
Ukraine and Russia: A Current History Virtual Issue
Mar 09 2022
The beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in late February 2022 shocked the world, setting off the largest-scale land war in Europe since at least the Balkan wars of the 1990s, and driving more than 1.5 million civilians to flee to countries to the west. Russian President Vladimir Putin had deli
Is Decentralizing Authority Key to Afghanistan’s Path to Peace?
Mar 26 2021
Afghanistan has a rich history of customary or traditional governance structures which have remained central to the lives of most citizens, who rely on these community-based bodies to resolve disputes, provide small-scale public goods and services, and to broker relations with local government. The
Asia in 2020: The Covid-19 Pandemic and the U.S.-China Trade War
Mar 23 2021
We've removed the paywall from Asian Survey's annual year-in-review issue which looks back at the biggest stories concerning Asia in 2020, a year during which the COVID-19 pandemic and a trade dispute between the United States and China dominated the headlines. As the world continues to grapple with
Post-pandemic Will the Poor Get Poorer?
Oct 29 2020
Anirudh KrishnaAnirudh Krishna’s essay “The Poorest After the Pandemic” is featured in Current History’s November special issue on the pandemic’s global ramifications. Krishna is the Edgar T. Thompson Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at Duke University. His research investigates