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How Ukraine Fights Back (And What It Means for Russia)
Oct 14 2022
While characterizing this annexation as the start of the partition of Ukraine, Moscow in fact has contributed to the consolidation of Ukrainian society around the goal of returning these and other areas lost since 2014.
Disability Rights: A Current History Virtual Issue
Jul 26 2022
In commemoration today's anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, we are sharing Current History's recent virtual issue on disability rights.People with disabilities comprise the world’s largest minority, at roughly 15 percent of the global population. Most people will experie
#SHAFR2022: UC Press Journals Offer Free Online Content
Jun 15 2022
As the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations convenes this week in New Orleans, UC Press is pleased to remove the paywall from select journal content that we think will be of interest to SHAFR members and conference attendees. Pacific Historical ReviewPacific Historica
#ISA2022: Read Free Issues of Asian Survey and Current History
Mar 28 2022
We've removed the paywall from select issues of two of our leading international studies journals, Asian Survey and Current History. We invite those attending the International Studies Association either in person or virtually to explore two of the journals' most popular issues, Asian Survey's annua
#AAS2022: Explore Free Content from UC Press Journals
Mar 25 2022
We are delighted to make select issues from UC Press journals that cover Asian Studies free to read online during the annual conference of the Asian Studies Association. Asian Survey's 2021 Year-In-Review IssueThe only academic journal of its kind produced in the United States, Asian Sur
The Environmental and Health Dimensions of the Ukraine War
Mar 16 2022
by Erika Weinthal and Jeannie Sowers, authors of "Health and Environmental Tolls of Protracted Conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa" Current History (2021) 120 (830): 339–345.The Russian invasion of Ukraine has exposed the brutal strategy of seeking to bombard cities into submission
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
#LASA2021: Explore Free Content from UC Press’s Latin American Studies Journals
May 26 2021
We're marking the 2021 virtual conference of the Latin American Studies Association by offering a selection of free content from UC Press journals. Current History, the oldest publication devoted exclusively to international affairs published in the United States, devotes its February is
#OAH2021: Explore Free Content from UC Press Journals
Apr 19 2021
We're continuing our #0AH2021 promotions by removing the paywall from select issues of UC Press history journals. Click on the covers below to access the free issues.
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