The End of Power (62 page)

Seven Sisters,
159
,
160

Severgnini, Beppe,
79

Sex,
16
,
52
,
70

Shah, Apoorva,
209

Shanghai,
181
,
188

SharedSolar,
178

Shell Oil,
2
,
159

Shenzhen,
181

Shinawatra, Thaksin,
50
,
95

Shintoism,
199

Shirky, Clay,
53

Shirtmakers,
30–31

Shunmugam, Venkatachalam,
189

Siberia,
175

Siemens,
37

Silicon Valley,
180
,
181
,
220

Sills, Ben,
178

Silver, Nate,
214–215

Singer, Peter,
117

Singh, Manmohan,
89
,
98

Skills,
32
,
123
,
228–229

Skype,
63
,
159
,
180

Slacktivism,
230

Small countries,
151–152
,
153
,
156
,
157

Social media,
14
,
78
,
102
,
103
,
111
,
216
,
230
,
242
.
See also
Facebook
;
Twitter

Social Ventures Partners International,
209

Sociology/social science,
38
,
75
,
232

Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics
(Nye),
137

Solana, Javier,
51

Somalia,
29
,
62
,
107
,
110
,
118
,
127
,
143

Sony,
159

Soros, George,
8
,
50
,
161

South Africa,
9
,
83
,
90
,
99
,
133
,
147
,
148
,
155
,
180
,
186
,
195

South American Defense Council,
143

South Korea,
9
,
83
,
145
,
149
,
165
,
195

Sovereign states,
81
,
81(fig.)
,
82
.
See also
Nation-states

Soviet Union,
3
,
27
,
28
,
81
,
119
,
138
,
139
,
150
,
153
,
157
,
232

ex-Soviet bloc,
249
,
251
,
254
(
see also
Warsaw Pact
)

See also
Cold War
;
Russia

Spain,
79
,
82
,
92
,
99
,
151
,
159
,
176
,
201
,
215

political parties in,
96

Specialization,
41

Speed,
177
,
178

Spending,
46
,
61
,
115
,
123
,
223

military spending,
13
,
108–109
,
119
,
122
,
136
,
141

Sports,
9
,
208
,
216
,
234

Spotify,
212

Sri Lanka,
114
,
186

Srivastava, Mehul,
177

St. Germain Football Club,
149

Stability,
18
,
19
,
23
,
52
,
64
,
66
,
101
,
133
,
136
,
137
,
138
,
141
,
190
,
224
,
228

stable democracies,
249

Stalin, Joseph,
108

Standard of living,
54
,
56
,
58
,
64

Standard Oil,
35

Stanko, Michael,
182

Start-ups,
1
,
48
,
51
,
61
,
177
,
191
,
214

Steel,
7
,
37
,
71
,
146
,
168

Stein, Eduardo,
96

Stern, Andy,
203–204

Stock exchanges,
187–189
,
191

Stockyards (in Chicago),
41

Stoddard, Nat,
164

Strategy Formulation: Political Concept
(MacMillan),
25–17

Subcontracting,
44
.
See also
Outsourcing

Subsidies,
155
,
157

Sudan/South Sudan,
5
,
59
,
81
,
124

Suicide bombers,
120

Sullivan, Richard,
205

Super-PACs,
94–95
,
218

Surveillance,
14
,
53
,
112

Sweden,
63
,
78
,
92
,
106
,
201

Sweeney, Bill,
88

Switzerland,
215

Syria,
14
,
53
,
110
,
150
,
238

Taiwan,
83
,
180
,
182

Tal, Mikhail,
3

Taliban,
113
,
126
,
127
,
131
,
142
,
236

Tamil Tigers,
114

Tangentopoli,
9

Target,
209

Tariffs,
155
,
173
,
183

Tasmania,
216

Taxation,
157
,
172
,
177
,
184
,
223
,
236

Tea Party movement,
79
,
91–92
,
93
,
202
,
232
,
236
,
239

Technology,
1
,
29
,
36
,
44
,
57
,
100
,
116
,
123
,
137
,
233
,
236

disruptive,
173
,
182

emerging technology areas,
181

information/communication technologies,
10
,
13–14
,
70
,
102
,
110
,
172
,
206
,
243

Tehran,
219

Telemedicine,
177

Telenovelas,
148
,
149

Telephony,
221
,
230
.
See also
Cellphones
;
Prepaid phone cards

Ten Commandments,
24

Tenner, Edward,
3

Terrible Simplifiers,
229
,
236
,
237
,
241

Terrorism,
12
,
18
,
54
,
108
,
109
,
110
,
111
,
112
,
114–115
,
118
,
140
,
221
,
226

attacks of 9/11,
107
,
114
,
121
,
122
,
126
,
127
,
139

Foreign Terrorist Organizations (designation),
114

Texas Pacific Group,
189

Textiles,
37
,
186

Text messaging,
53
,
103
,
210
,
230

Thailand,
50
,
97–98
,
165
,
172

Tharoor, Shashi,
148

Thatcher, Margaret,
172

The Gap,
176

Thermopylae, battle of,
112

Thirty Years War
135

Thom, Randall,
175

Thus Spake Zarathustra
(Nietzsche),
16

Time Warner,
212
,
213

Timex,
169

Tiririca,
79

“Too big to fail,”
167

Torture,
114

Tourism,
61–62
,
145
,
153

Toyota,
184
,
205

Trade,
13
,
53
,
62
,
73
,
101
,
102
,
138
,
144
,
151
,
155
,
157
,
183
,
187
,
191
,
219
,
235

growth of,
172–173

See also
Tariffs

Tradition,
24
,
27
,
60
,
65
,
73
,
78
,
98
,
123
,
153

Trafficking,
18
,
127

Trafigura trading firm,
216

Treaties,
137–138
,
139
,
151
,
185
,
228

Trends,
28
,
71
,
74
,
84(fig.)
,
86–87
,
90
,
93
,
94
,
96
,
109
,
113–114
,
158
,
163
,
164
,
166
,
184
,
186
,
201
,
253

in number of democratic regimes,
248

regional trends in democracy,
249–250
(figs.),
251

Trierweiler, Valérie,
93

Trust,
15
,
68
,
232
,
237–239
,
240
,
242
,
243

Tuberculosis,
43

Tunisia,
14
,
57
,
95
,
100
,
242

Turkey,
13
,
147
,
186
,
201

Turkmenistan,
131

Tuvalu,
152

Twitter,
14
,
28
,
53
,
62–63
,
100
,
125
,
166
,
179
,
212
,
216
,
229

TXU energy company,
189

Tyranny,
224
,
226
.
See also
Dictators

Tyson, Ann Scott,
111

Uganda,
113
,
134

Ukraine,
9
,
103

Unemployment,
14
,
15
,
23
,
130

Unions,
34
,
38
,
41
,
45
,
59
,
68
,
104
,
193

history of,
200–202

See also
Labor
;
under
United States

United Arab Emirates,
65
,
186

United Fruit Company,
178

United Kingdom.
See
Great Britain

United Nations,
55
,
59
,
62
,
137
,
138
,
144
,
227
,
244

Durban climate talks,
152

Human Development Index,
57

members in,
81

Millennium Declaration,
156

peacekeeping missions of,
124

Security Council,
150
,
151