Index

authoritarianism: American support of, (i), (ii); China, (i), (ii); information flow and, (i); in the Middle East, (i), (ii), (iii); new wave of, (i), (ii), (iii); and Putin, (i), (ii), (iii); Trump and, (i)

Bacon, Francis, (i)

Bader, Jeffrey, (i), (ii), (iii)

balance of power: in East Asia, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii); in the Middle East, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); and U.S. allies, (i). See also balancing

balancing: against China in East Asia, (i), (ii), (iii); against Iran, (i); offshore balancing (realist foreign policy), (i); post-Cold War absence of, (i); against Russia, (i), (ii); use of term, (i). See also balance of power

Baltic states, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

Bataclan Theater terrorist attack, (i)

Biden, Joseph, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Bloomberg, (i)

Bond, Kevin, (i)

Boston Globe, (i)

Brazil, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv). See also BRICS

Bremmer, Ian, (i)

Brexit, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

British Empire, use of accommodation strategy, (i)

Brooks, Stephen, (i), (ii)

Bush administration (George H. W. Bush), (i), (ii)

Bush administration (George W. Bush): and convergence, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); and European integration, (i); and Middle East, (i), (ii); spy plane incident in China (2001), (i); and terrorism, (i), (ii)

Cambodia, (i)

Cameron, David, (i), (ii)

Campbell, Kurt, (i)

Carter, Ashton, (i), (ii)

Catherine the Great, (i)

Charap, Samuel, (i)

Charlie Hebdo massacre, (i)

chemical weapons, (i)

Cheney, Dick, (i)

China, (i); and balance of power, (i); balancing against, in East Asia, (i), (ii), (iii); Clinton administration and, (i); conflict avoidance strategy, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)n20; convergence and the threat of democratization, (i); cooperation on global issues, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); core interests of, (i); cyberwarfare operations, (i); domestic problems, (i); and East China Sea, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); economic growth in, (i); and European Union, (i); fears of U.S. sanctions, (i); and flow of information, (i); foreign policy change to assertive, (i); and George W. Bush administration, (i), (ii); and interdependence, (i), (ii); investment in U.S. and U.K. companies, (i); linkages to U.S. economy, (i); and the Middle East, (i); and nationalism, (i), (ii), (iii); and North Korea, (i); and Obama administration, (i), (ii); One Belt, One Road initiative, (i); possibility of crisis or decline in, (i); power assessment of, (i), (ii); regional challenges to the power and influence of, (i); and Russia, (i); and sharing East Asia with U.S., (i), (ii); and South China Sea, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)n26; strategic goals of (overview), (i); as threat to U.S. global order, (i); and U.S. accommodation strategy, (i); as U.S. competitor, (i), (ii); and U.S. debt, (i); use of sanctions by, (i). See also BRICS

Christensen, Thomas, (i)

Churchill, Winston, (i)

Clapper, James, (i)

Clark, Wesley, (i)

Clinton, Hillary, (i), (ii)

Clinton administration (Bill Clinton), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Cold War: balancing during, (i), (ii); Clinton on, (i); and instability, (i); and nuclear weapons, (i), (ii); and proxy wars, (i); sanctions, (i); and trade, (i)

competitive strategy school of thought, (i)

connectivity wars, (i)

convergence, (i); during George W. Bush administration, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); and China, (i), (ii); during Clinton administration, (i); concept of, (i), (ii)n1; end of, (i), (ii); financial crisis of 2008 and, (i); flaws of, (i); globalization and market democracy and, (i); and global vs. regional issues, (i); as independent of U.S. primacy, (i), (ii); and lack of balancing against U.S., (i); and the Middle East, (i); during Obama administration, (i), (ii), (iii); post-Cold War, (i); and Russia, (i), (ii); shared threats and interests and, (i), (ii), (iii); successes and failures of, (i)

Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls (CoCom), (i)

Cowen, Tyler, (i)

Crimea, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Cronin, Patrick, (i)

Cui Tiankai, (i), (ii)

cyber attacks, (i), (ii), (iii)

Dai Bingguo, (i)

Demirtas, Selahattin, (i)

democracy: European Union and, (i); in Japan, (i); in the Middle East, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi) (see also Arab Awakening / Arab Spring); as optimal way, (i), (ii), (iii); Russia’s and China’s fears of, (i), (ii); U.S. promotion of, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix)

Democratic National Committee (DNC) cyber attack, (i)

Deng Xiaoping, (i)

Denmark, and refugee crisis, (i)

Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands, (i), (ii)

Di Dongsheng, (i)

dollar as world’s reserve currency, (i), (ii)

East Asia: as America’s future, (i); balancing against China, (i), (ii), (iii); as China’s sphere of influence, (i), (ii); difficulties of negotiating with China, (i); Obama administration and, (i); and Russia, (i); uncertainty about U.S. intentions, (i); U.S.-China power sharing in, (i), (ii); web of cooperation in, (i). See also specific countries

East China Sea, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

economic stagnation, (i), (ii), (iii)

Egypt, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

elections, interference in, (i), (ii), (iii)

end of history, (i), (ii)n2

enlargement policy, (i), (ii)

Erdog˘an, Recep Tayyip, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Erickson, Andrew, (i), (ii)

Erste Group, (i)

Eurasia Group, (i), (ii)

euro crisis, (i)

European Central Bank, (i), (ii)

European Union, (i); America’s declining interest in, (i); Brexit, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); euro crisis, (i); and free-riding, (i), (ii), (iii); from integration to threats of dissolution (overview), (i); and the Middle East, (i); and Obama administration, (i), (ii); possibility of creating a real economic union, (i); promoting responsible competition in, (i); and Russia, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); sanctions on Russia and economic backlash from, (i), (ii); Syrian war and refugee crisis, (i), (ii), (iii); terrorism in, (i); use of economic weapons, (i), (ii). See also specific countries

Euroskepticism, (i)

ExxonMobil, (i)

Faisal, Crown Prince, (i)

Farage, Nigel, (i)

financial crisis (2008), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)

Financial Times, (i)

financial weapons. See sanctions

Foreign Affairs, (i)

France, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

free-riding, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Friedman, Thomas, (i)

Fukuyama, Francis, (i), (ii)

Fu Ying, (i), (ii)

Gaddy, Clifford, (i), (ii)

Gause, Gregory, (i), (ii)

Gazprom, (i)

GDP growth, (i)

Georgian War (2008), (i)

Gerasimov, Valery (Gerasimov Doctrine), (i), (ii)

Germany: economic policies, (i), (ii)n9; and the euro crisis, (i), (ii), (iii); and interdependence, (i); New Year’s Eve sexual assaults, (i); and refugee crisis, (i), (ii); terrorism in, (i). See also Nazi Germany

Glaspie, April, (i)

globalization: and convergence, (i); economic stagnation as cause of opposition to, (i); and financial crises, (i); and nationalism, (i); perceived failure of U.S. model of, (i); and self-reliance, (i); U.S. disengagement and, (i). See also interdependence

Goldberg, Jeffrey, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Goldstein, Lyle, (i)

Gordon, David, (i)n1

Gordon, Philip, (i)

Gottlieb, Stuart, (i)

great powers, rise and fall of, (i)

Great Recession, (i), (ii). See also financial crisis (2008)

Great Stagnation, The (Cowen), (i)

Greece, (i), (ii)

Guardian, (i)

Haass, Richard, (i)

Hachigan, Nina, (i)

Hamid, Shadi, (i)

Hampson, Fen Osler, (i)n1

hard power, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

Harris, Harry, (i)

Hayden, Michael, (i), (ii)

Hill, Fiona, (i), (ii)

Hirschman, Albert O., (i)

Hollande, François, (i)

Huawei, (i)

Hull, Cordell, (i)

humanitarian intervention, (i)

Ideas That Conquered the World, The (Mandelbaum), (i), (ii)

Ikenberry, G. John, (i)

IMF (International Monetary Fund), (i), (ii), (iii)

immigration, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv). See also refugee crisis (2015)

India, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii). See also BRICS

interdependence, (i); China and, (i), (ii); China and U.S. debt, (i); China’s strategies to reduce risks of, (i); Clinton administration and, (i); and coercion, (i); and cyberwarfare, (i); integration and, (i); positive and negative types of, (i); Putin’s strategy of reserves and self-reliance, (i), (ii); risks posed by Chinese investors and companies, (i); U.S. advantage in use of financial weapons, (i)

interdependent competition, (i)

International Monetary Fund (IMF), (i), (ii), (iii)

Internet, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv). See also cyber attacks

Ionin, Andrei, (i)

Iran: balancing against, (i); in the convergence era, (i); nuclear deal, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); Obama administration and, (i), (ii); power assessment, (i); and Russia, (i); strategy after Arab Awakening, (i); U.S. sabotage of nuclear program of, (i). See also Saudi Arabia–Iran cold war

Iranian Green Movement (2009), (i), (ii)

Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), (i)

Iraq: and Iran, (i); and ISIS, (i), (ii); and Kuwait, (i); Obama administration’s reduced engagement in, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

Iraq War (2003), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

Ireland, financial crisis in, (i)

ISIS (Islamic State), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)

isolationism, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Israel, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Jackson, Michael, (i)

Japan: Chinese sanctions on, (i); difficulties of negotiating with China, (i); and East China Sea, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); and economic stagnation, (i); nationalism in, (i); and Russia, (i); strategies for balancing China, (i); as U.S. ally, (i)

Kaeser, Joe, (i)

Kagan, Robert, (i)

Kang, David, (i)

Kennan, George, (i), (ii)

Kerry, John, (i)

Kim Jong-un, (i)

Kirshner, Jonathan, (i), (ii)

Kishi, Nobusuke, (i)

Kissinger, Henry, (i), (ii), (iii)

Kohl, Helmut, (i), (ii)

Kosovo conflict (1998–1999), (i)

Kostin, Andrey, (i)

Krastev, Ivan, (i)

Kurdi, Aylan, (i)

Lake, Anthony, (i)

Laos, (i)

Le Carillon bar terrorist attack, (i)

Leonard, Mark, (i)

Lew, Jack, (i)

Lexus and the Olive Tree, The (Friedman), (i)

liberal international order: as America’s chosen path, (i), (ii); building and maintaining, (i); communist threat and, (i); components of, (i); consequences of U.S. disengagement from, (i); costs of, (i); current revolt against, (i); global cooperation vs. geopolitical concerns, (i); perception and reality of U.S. decline and, (i); revisionism and, (i); strategic options for, (i) (see also responsible competition; restraint/retrenchment); success of, (i), (ii), (iii); Trump and, (i), (ii), (iii). See also convergence

Libya, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Lindbergh, Charles, (i), (ii)

Lizza, Ryan, (i), (ii)

Lorber, Eric, (i)

Luttwak, Edward, (i)

Lynch, Marc, (i)

Malaysia, (i)

Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, (i)

Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, (i)

Maliki, Nouri al-, (i), (ii)

Mandelbaum, Michael, (i), (ii)

Marshall, Andrew, (i)

MasterCard, (i)

Mattis, James, (i)

Maximalist (Sestanovich), (i)

May, Theresa, (i), (ii)

McFaul, Michael, (i)

Mead, Walter Russell, (i)

Mearsheimer, John, (i)

Medvedev, Dmitri, (i), (ii), (iii)

Meeting China Halfway (Goldstein), (i)

mercantilism, (i), (ii)

Merkel, Angela, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Middle East, (i); balancing against Iran, (i); George W. Bush administration and, (i), (ii); China and, (i); democracy in, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi) (see also Arab Awakening / Arab Spring); disorder in (overview), (i); European Union and, (i); failure of convergence in, (i); Obama administration and, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); Putin regime and, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); responsible competition strategy in, (i); rise of ISIS in, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); risks of chaos in, (i), (ii); Saudi Arabia–Iran cold war (see Saudi Arabia–Iran cold war); Shia-Sunni divide, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x); signs of hope in, (i); U.S. engagement vs. disengagement in, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv). See also specific countries

military power, (i)

Mission Failure (Mandelbaum), (i)

Mitterrand, François, (i), (ii)

Mohammed bin Nayef, crown prince of Saudi Arabia, (i)

Mohammed bin Salman, deputy crown prince of Saudi Arabia, (i), (ii)

Morsi, Mohamed, (i)

Moscow Conference (1943), (i)

Mubarak, Hosni, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

multilateralism: as basic to international order, (i), (ii); China and, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); Obama administration and, (i)

multipolarity, (i)

Munich Security Conference (2007), (i)

Muslim Brotherhood, (i), (ii), (iii)

Myers, Stephen Lee, (i)

Nathan, Andrew, (i), (ii)

nationalism: East Asia and, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); European Union and, (i); nations in decline and, (i); new era of, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x); Putin regime and, (i), (ii), (iii); Trump and America First, (i), (ii), (iii)

National Power and the Structure of Foreign Trade (Hirschman), (i)

National Security Strategy (European Union, 2003), (i)

NATO: expansion, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix); Putin and, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii); and responsible competition strategy, (i), (ii); and restraint strategy, (i), (ii), (iii); Trump and, (i), (ii); and U.S.-Russia power-sharing strategy, (i)

Nazi Germany, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

neo-isolationism, (i), (ii)

New Development Bank (NDB), (i)

New Silk Road, (i)

New Year’s Eve sexual assaults (Germany), (i)

New Yorker, (i), (ii)

New York Times, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Niebuhr, Reinhold, (i), (ii)

Nonzero (Wright), (i)

North Korea, (i), (ii)

nuclear weapons, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

Obama administration (Barack Obama): and China, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); and convergence, (i); doctrine of restraint, (i); and East Asia (South China Sea), (i); and European Union, (i), (ii); and ISIS, (i), (ii); and the Middle East, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii); pivot to Asia, (i), (ii); and Russia, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

Odierno, Ray, (i)

offshore balancing (realist foreign policy), (i)

oil and oil prices, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

Olympic Games operation, (i)

One Belt, One Road initiative, (i)

Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), (i)

Overcoming Sedition (IRGC), (i)

Pang Hanzhao, (i)

Paracel Islands, (i)

Paris Agreement, (i)

Paris terrorist attacks (2015), (i)

Pei, Minxin, (i)

Philippines, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)n26

pivot to Asia, (i), (ii)

Plot Against America, The (Roth), (i)

Political Reform in the Middle East and North Africa (Obama), (i)

Politico Magazine, (i)

populism, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)

Portugal, financial crisis in, (i)

Posen, Barry, (i)

power: assessment of, (i); balance of (see balance of power); sharing, (i). See also hard power; soft power

protectionism, (i)

proxy wars, (i)

Putin, Vladimir, regime of, (i); and authoritarianism, (i), (ii), (iii); and balance of power, (i); balancing against, (i), (ii); and break with the West, (i), (ii); and BRICS nations, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); Clinton on, (i); cooperation on global issues, (i); and cyber attacks, (i), (ii), (iii); definition of sovereignty, (i); and East Asia, (i), (ii); and European Union and NATO, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix); invasion of Georgia, (i); and the Middle East, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); and Obama administration, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii); power assessment of, (i), (ii); proposed dumping of U.S. bonds, (i); protests against, (i); sanctions against, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); strategy of reserves and self-reliance, (i), (ii); Trump and, (i); and Ukraine crisis and annexation of Crimea, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); and U.S. accommodation strategy, (i), (ii); as U.S. competitor, (i), (ii); use of hard power, (i); and U.S. war on terrorism, (i)

Qaddafi, Muammar, (i)

Qatar, (i)

Rajan, Raghuram, (i)

RAND corporation, (i)

Ratner, Ely, (i)

realist foreign policy (offshore balancing), (i)

refugee crisis (2015), (i), (ii), (iii)

relative power, (i)

Remnick, David, (i)

renminbi internationalization, (i)

reset with Russia, (i), (ii), (iii)

Responsibility Doctrine, (i)

responsible competition, (i); and China, (i); vs. competitive strategy school of thought, (i); competitive vs. noncompetitive relationships, (i); defined, (i); and free-riding alliances, (i); goals of, (i); importance of balance of power in, (i); importance of liberal values in, (i); and the Middle East, (i); promotion of, in Europe (balancing Russia), (i); vs. restraint/retrenchment strategy, (i); vs. shared global interests, (i); two components of, (i); and U.S. engagement in Europe, (i)

Restraint (Posen), (i)

restraint/retrenchment, (i); accommodation strategy, (i); vs. maximalist strategies, (i); neo-isolationism, (i); Obama doctrine of, (i); offshore balancing (realist foreign policy), (i)

retrenchment. See restraint/retrenchment

revisionism, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x)n9

Rhodes, Benjamin, (i)

Rice, Condoleezza, (i)

Riedel, Bruce, (i)

rightsizing, (i)

Roosevelt administration (Franklin D. Roosevelt), (i), (ii)

Rosen, Stephen Peter, (i)

Rosneft, (i)

Ross, Dennis, (i)

Roth, Philip, (i)

Roy, Oliver, (i), (ii)

Russel, Daniel, (i)

Russia: Clinton-Yeltsin cooperation, (i), (ii); convergence and the threat of democratization, (i); economic growth in, (i); and global vs. regional issues, (i); insecurity as cause of expansionism in, (i); and Kosovo conflict, (i); Medvedev and Obama and convergence, (i), (ii), (iii); Putin regime (see Putin, Vladimir, regime of). See also reset with Russia

sanctions: against China, (i); economic backlash from, (i); and interdependence, (i); against Russia (Ukraine crisis), (i), (ii), (iii); U.S. use of, (i), (ii)

Sarkozy, Nicolas, (i)

Saudi Arabia, (i), (ii)

Saudi Arabia-Iran cold war, (i); Arab Awakening / Arab Spring and, (i), (ii); and fears of Iran’s nuclear weapons, (i); Iran’s strategy, (i); religion and, (i); and the rise of ISIS, (i); Saudi strategies, (i); and Syrian civil war, (i)

Scarborough Reef incident (2012), (i), (ii), (iii)n26

Schäuble, Wolfgang, (i)

Schengen Agreement, (i)

Schroeder, Gerhard, (i), (ii), (iii)

Scobell, Andrew, (i), (ii)

Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands, (i), (ii)

September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, (i)

Sestanovich, Stephen, (i)

Shambaugh, David, (i)

Shapiro, Jeremy, (i)

Sharma, Ruchir, (i)

Shearer, Andrew, (i)

Shia-Sunni divide, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x)

Shorr, David, (i)

Silk Road Economic Belt, (i)

Singapore, (i)

Sisi, Abdel el-Fattah al-, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Sky, Emma, (i), (ii)

Small, Andrew, (i)

soft power, (i), (ii), (iii)

Soleimani, Qassem, (i), (ii)

Soros, George, (i)

South China Sea, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)n26

South Korea, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix)

sovereignty of states, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Soviet Union, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

Spain, financial crisis in, (i), (ii)

spheres of influence: and accommodation strategy, (i); China and East Asia, (i), (ii), (iii); and the failure of convergence, (i); Russia and Europe, (i), (ii)

Spratly Archipelago, (i)

Stade de France terrorist attack, (i)

status quo states, (i)

Stein, Herb, (i)

Steinberg, James, (i)

Steinbrück, Peer, (i)

Strategic and Economic Dialogue (U.S.-China), (i), (ii)

Summers, Lawrence, (i)

Sunni-Shia divide, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x)

“Sunni-Shia Divide: Where Religion Masks Geo-Strategy” (Roy), (i)

Syrian war and refugee crisis, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)

Taeb, Mehdi, (i)

Taiwan, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v). See also China

terrorism: in Europe, (i), (ii); Middle East conflict and, (i); Obama administration and, (i), (ii), (iii); Putin on U.S. role in, (i), (ii); September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, (i), (ii); as shared threat, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x); U.S. sanctions against terror networks, (i), (ii); war on, (i), (ii), (iii). See also ISIS (Islamic State)

Thailand, (i)

Tiananmen Square massacre, (i)

Tibet, (i)

Time Magazine, (i)

trade and trade agreements, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv). See also globalization; Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)

Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

Trenin, Dmitri, (i)

Truman administration (Harry S. Truman), (i)

Trump, Donald: core beliefs of, (i); and free-riding, (i), (ii); and liberal international order, (i), (ii), (iii); and the Middle East, (i); and nationalism, (i), (ii), (iii); and NATO and European Union, (i), (ii); and neo-isolationism, (i), (ii); and populism, (i); and Putin, (i); and Syrian refugees, (i); and trade agreements, (i); and U.S. decline, (i)

Tsai Ing-wen, (i)

Tsongas, Paul, (i)

Turkey, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Ukraine, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

unipolarity, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

United Arab Emirates (UAE), (i)

United Kingdom, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

United Nations, (i)

United States: alliance system, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); debt, (i); decline, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); domestic vs. foreign policy, (i); foreign policy (see specific countries; specific presidents)

Unraveling, The (Sky), (i)

U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) hack, (i)

“US World Order is a Suit That No Longer Fits, The” (Fu), (i)

Vietnam, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)n26

Visa, (i)

vital vs. nonvital interests, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

Walt, Stephen, (i)

Wang Jisi, (i)

Wang Yi, (i)

Washington plot (2011), (i)

Washington Post, (i), (ii)

weaponization of finance, (i)

White, Hugh, (i)

“Why Europe No Longer Matters” (Haass), (i)

Wikileaks, (i)

Wittes, Tamara, (i), (ii)

Wohlforth, William, (i), (ii)

Wolfowitz, Paul, (i)

Worth, Robert, (i)

Wright, Robert, (i)

Xi Jinping, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

Xinjiang, (i), (ii), (iii)

Zarate, Juan, (i)

Zoellick, Robert, (i)

ZTE, (i)