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Morocco bombings (2003), 17

Morris, James, 184

mortgages, 42, 46, 85, 152, 217, 222, 225

Mountbatten, Louis, 36, 164

Moynihan, Daniel Patrick, 74

MRI machines, 30

Mugabe, Robert, 109, 131

multiculturalism, 65

multilateralism, 246–55, 267–69

multipolar order, 1–5, 39, 52–53, 233, 241–42, 243–50, 266–69, 274

multi-spindle wheel, 72

Mumbai, 150, 173, 180, 210

Mumtaz Mahal, 70–71

Mussolini, Benito, 195

Mutual Assured Destruction, 140

Naím, Moisés, 130

Nanjing, 63

nanotechnology, 200–202, 215

Napoleon I, Emperor of France, 100

Nasser, Gamal Abdul, 84–85

National Academy of Sciences, 204

national debt, 46–49, 130, 138, 140, 217–19, 241–42

National Debt Clock, 46

nationalism, 34–42, 43, 76, 101, 134–35, 143, 145, 158–59, 180–83, 192, 274

nationalization, 197

national saving, 218

National Science Foundation, 205

nation-states, 34–42, 75

natural gas, 31, 129, 260

natural resources, 6, 30–34, 38, 65, 103–4, 115, 129–32, 232, 260

Nazism, 10, 25, 36–37, 143, 266, 275, 276

Needham, Joseph, 122–23

Nehru, Jawaharlal, 84, 86, 154, 156, 162–65, 169, 173, 177, 181

neoconservatives, 141–42, 247, 253

Netherlands, 67, 72, 79, 80, 188, 209

New Delhi, India, 150

Newsweek, 96, 227

New World, 79, 80, 187

“new world order,” 38

New York, N.Y., 48, 221, 224

New York Times, 163, 188, 203, 258

Nigeria, 60, 86, 98, 130, 149

Nixon, Richard M., 233, 284

Nobel Prize, 139, 210, 215

nonaccelerating inflation rate of unemployment (NAIRU), 217

nonalignment policy, 163–66, 177

nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), 5, 34, 39, 57, 168, 173, 272

North Africa, 12–13, 20, 80

North America, 78–79

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 13, 173, 247, 268

North Korea, 6, 19, 20, 141, 175, 235–36, 246, 259, 264

Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (1968), 174–78, 265

nuclear weapons, 6, 17, 29, 34, 96, 140, 142, 167, 174–78, 249, 251, 256, 259–60, 265, 273, 275

Nunn, Sam, 265

Nye, Joseph, 121

Obama, Barack, xii, 139, 178, 251, 256, 259, 266, 279

Odah, Salman al-, 14–15

Oglethorpe University, 276

oil, 6, 30–32, 38, 115, 232–33, 260

Olympic Games, 5, 103, 105, 137, 187

Omdurman, Battle of, 188

one-child policy, 148, 214n

O’Neill, Thomas P. “Tip,” 179, 284

Opium Wars, 81

Organization of American States (OAS), 268

Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), 30

Orissa, 155

Ottoman Empire, 67, 68, 73, 75, 82, 84, 85, 117–18

outsourcing, 27–28, 50, 148, 203

“Pacific Century,” 245

Pakistan, 12, 13, 14, 145, 159, 165, 166, 172, 176, 241, 260, 263, 264, 271

Palestinians, 6, 246

Pampers diapers, 105

Parsley crisis (2002), 239–41

Patriots Alliance, 135

Patten, Christopher, 248–49

“peaceful rise,” 119–20, 127–36

peasants, 65–66, 100, 106, 112

Pei, Minxin, 106, 110

pensions, 212

Perejil Island, 239–41

Perry, William, 265

Pershing missiles, 251

Persian Gulf, 32

Peru, 26

Peter I, Emperor of Russia, 83–84

petrochemicals, 32

Pew Global Attitudes Survey, 59, 122, 166, 226

Philippines, 11, 28, 133

Philosophical Dictionary (Voltaire), 123

Pilhofer, Aron, 220

Pines, Burton, 235

Pinker, Steven, 9

Pitt, William, 82

Pizarro, Francisco, 80

platinum, 131

Plaza Accord meetings, 282

plutonium, 176

polar ice caps, 33

political parties, 59, 154, 156–62, 178, 179–80, 235, 255, 276–77, 278, 279, 283

“political risk,” 19

Poos, Jacques, 245

population growth, 22, 31, 32–33, 50–51, 66, 80, 100, 112, 144, 145, 148, 178–83, 191, 213–16, 236–37

Portugal, 69, 79, 80, 116, 151

“positive supply shocks,” 20

post-American world:

anti-Americanism and, 13, 35, 39, 42, 60, 166, 241, 245, 251–55, 274, 283

asymmetry in, 142–44, 269–72

cultural change in, 1–5, 16, 39, 41, 62–99, 126–27

economic conditions in, 6–61, 93, 94, 97, 197–99, 241–43, 255

future trends for, 1–5, 94–99, 199–203, 204, 239–85

legitimacy in, 243–50, 273–75

multilateralism in, 246–55, 267–69

nationalism in, 34–42, 101, 134–35, 143, 145, 158–59, 180–83, 192, 274

power shift in, 20, 22–23, 29, 34–42, 47–49, 51–54, 93–94, 99, 127–28, 137–44, 241–42, 259, 266–67

“rise of the rest” in, xii, 1–5, 47, 55–56, 65, 96–97, 99, 101, 199, 219–22, 242, 257–59, 263, 267–69, 285

strategic approach to, 142–44, 255–75

unipolar vs. multipolar order of, 1–5, 39, 52–53, 233, 241–42, 243–50, 264–65, 266–69, 274–75

U.S. global role in, xii, 4, 48–61, 117, 120, 142–44, 182–83, 223–26, 235–85

see also globalization

postindustrial economies, 151, 200, 204

poverty, 3, 22, 65–66, 100, 102, 106, 111, 113–14, 117, 121, 146, 149, 150, 155–58, 169, 177

Powell, Colin, 240

Pratt School of Engineering, 205

Premji, Azim, 155

price levels, 21, 30, 67, 70, 128

private property, 73, 150

private sector, 148–53, 160–61

privatization, 107, 110, 150–51, 152, 153, 222

Procter & Gamble, 105, 151

product development, 202–3

productivity, 21, 30, 33, 50, 71–72, 160, 200, 212, 281, 282, 283

profit, 72, 80, 128, 200, 203

Protestantism, 81, 97–98, 125, 262

Prussia, 191

Pudong financial district, 102–3

Punjab, 180

purchasing power parity (PPP), 18n, 21, 66n, 113n, 148n, 198n

qi (energy), 126

Qienlong, Emperor of China, 69

Qing dynasty, 63–64, 81

quotas, 109

Raffles, Stamford, 185

Rajasthan, 180

Ramo, Joshua Cooper, 142–43

Ranbaxy, 153

Ratner, Ely, 38

Rattner, Steven, 230

Reagan, Ronald, 168, 251, 284

real estate, 43, 85, 152, 217, 218, 225

recessions, 25, 227, 232

regional governments, 145, 161, 178–83

regional powers, 257–63

Reisen, Helmut, 281

Reliance Industries, 149, 153

religion, 15–16, 74, 76, 80, 81, 87, 98, 122–25, 127, 169, 171, 172, 213, 262, 278

Renaissance, 68

Report of Phihihu (Frederick II), 124

Republican Party, 59, 235, 276–77, 278, 280–81

reserve currency, 267

“responsible stakeholders,” 257

retail sector, 203

Revolutionary War, U.S., 194

Rhine River, 77

Ricci, Matteo, 124–25

Rice, Condoleezza, 252–53

Richie, Donald, 92

Rig Veda, 171

Rise of the Great Nations, The, 120

Rivoli, Pietra, 203

Roach, Steven, 282

Roberts, J. M., 74

Rodrik, Dani, 139

rogue states, 18–19, 38, 190, 276

Roman Empire, 67, 77, 128, 184, 187–88, 193, 240, 261–62

Romney, Mitt, 276

Roosevelt, Franklin D., 120, 168, 196, 253–54, 275

Roosevelt, Theodore, 120, 182

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 123

Roy, Raja Ram Mohan, 82–83, 86

Royal Navy, 186, 192, 195, 198

Rubin, Bob, 27

Rumsfeld, Donald, 59, 247

Russia:

Chinese relations of, 133, 142

czarist rule of, 73, 83–84, 191

economic reforms in, 107

economy of, 3, 29, 38, 54, 55, 107, 191

as emerging market, 258

foreign policy of, 6

geography of, 76

Georgia attacked by, 5

global influence of, 12, 53, 117, 257, 269

gross domestic product (GDP) of, 49, 191

industrialization of, 3

nuclear weapons of, 174, 176, 260, 265

oil resources of, 31

poverty in, 4

privatization in, 222

taxation in, 83–84

U.S. relations with, 54, 190, 241, 247, 260, 266, 269

Western influence in, 83–84, 98

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