Index

Abbas, Ali 363

Abbas, Mahmoud 179–80, 265, 272, 274, 293

Abe, Shinzo 399–400, 403, 428, 431

Abu Ghraib prison 76, 82, 99, 103, 164, 165, 166, 363, 364

Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) 464, 465

accountability 158, 197–200

Acharya, Amitav 10

Ackerman, Gary 272, 274–5

acronyms 153

Afghanistan 14, 24, 368–94; civilian deaths 384, 385; civilians 382, 384–5; collateral damage 382; cost 387–90; counterinsurgency 373, 382–4, 388–9; counterterrorism 381; Dasht-E-Leili massacre 392–4; democracy promotion 374; humanitarian crisis assistance 374–8; human rights abuses 78; Human Terrain project 390–2; interim government 372; invasion and occupation of 369–72, 374; logistics 388; modernization and Westernization 372–3; options 368–9; Soviet invasion 371–2; torture 385–7; treatment of prisoners 385–7, 392–3; use of cluster bombs 378–81; US forces immunity from local law 159; US terrorism 82–3; war logs 82–3, 371

Afghan War Diary 9, 14

AFL-CIO 40

African National Congress 478–80, 481–2

Ahern, Bertie 198–200

aid 30, 45, 71, 72; economic 45; military 24, 263. See also USAID

Airbus 184–5

Al-Akhbar (newspaper) 35

Alarcón, María Gloria 500

Alemán, Arnoldo 493–4

Algeria 32, 42

Al Jazeera 110, 179, 269

Allende, Salvador 66–7, 69

Alliance for Progress 56

Alliance Transformation Roadmap 409–10

al-Nayhan, Mohammed bin Zayed 335–8

al-Assad, Bashar 16, 31

al-Qaeda 15, 77, 90, 373

al-Qaeda in Iraq 362

al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula 40–1

al-Sadr, Muqtada 354, 358

al-Sharaa, Faruq 304

Alston, Philip 353

Al-Watan 304

Amano, Yukiya 344

Amari, Akira 468

ambassadors 3–4

American Israel Public Affairs Committee 326

American Service-Members’ Protection Act (ASPA) 162, 177

Amnesty International 199–200, 282

Amorim, Celso 540–1

ANA Trust Fund 196–7

Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act (ATPDEA) 503, 505, 506

Anderson, Benedict 438, 443

Anderson, Jack 472

Anonymous 37

Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty 212, 224

anti-colonial movement 25–6, 27, 42

Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement Act 136

Antonov, Anatoliy 222–3

Apple 116–17

Aquino, Benigno, Jr. 440

Arab Countries in Transition 47

Arab League 291–2

Arab Spring, the 31–42, 47

Arditi, Danny 278

ARENA (Nationalist Republican Alliance) 486–90

Argentina 57, 526, 538–40, 545

Aristide, Jean-Bertrand 30, 58, 60, 60–1, 63–5, 125, 510, 514

Armas, Carlos Castillo 55

arms sales 185–7, 323, 334–5

Article 98 agreements 162, 162–4, 177; ICC-related sanctions 169–77; problems caused by 165–9

Asad, Talal 74

ASEAN 446, 448–50, 453–4, 455, 461–2, 470

Asharq Al-Awsat 304–5

Ashkanazi, Gabi 284

Al-Assad, Bashar 16, 31

Assange, Julian 80, 210

Atomic Energy Agency 289

Austria 188

Azerbaijan 248

Bachelet, Michelle 516

Baghdad massacre 86–7

Baghdad Pact 43–4

Bahrain 32, 41, 165–7, 184–5

ballistic missile defense 219, 223–30, 330–4

bank bailouts 116, 136–41

Ban Ki-moon 180

Bank of America 115

Barada TV 314, 319–20

Barak, Ehud 270, 272, 280–1, 287–8

Barclays Bank 115

Bazin, Marc 64

Bellinger, John 109

Ben Ali, Zine El Abidine 31, 33–5

Bensouda, Fatou 180

Berdimuhamedow, Gurbanguly 23–4

Berezovsky, Boris 215

Berlusconi, Silvio 181, 201, 207

Beyrle, John 213–14, 228

Biden, Joe 38, 80, 529

bin Laden, Osama 90

biotechnology industry 187–95

Biotechnology Outreach Strategy 188

Bishop, Maurice 57

Bismarck, Otto Von 237

Blair, Tony 38, 39, 481

Bobo, Jack 191

Boeing 184–5

Boesak, Allan 480

Bolaños, Enrique 493

Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) 60, 72, 125

Bolivia 18, 503–10, 516, 541

Bolton, John 161, 165

Bosch, Juan 56

Bouazizi, Mohamed, self-immolation 31, 35

Boulos, Reginald 513

Brahimi, Lakhdar 64

Brandenburg, Ulrich 196–7

Brazil 51, 57, 171, 516, 538–9, 540–1, 545

Bremer, Paul 91

Brennan, John 301

Brennan, Peter 495–6

Bretton Woods system 43, 50, 118–19, 126

British Petroleum 115

Brownfield, William 518, 523, 524, 534–5

Brzezinski, Zbigniew 442

Bulgaria 185–7

Bureau of Investigative Journalism 104–5

Burma. See Myanmar

Burns, J. Nicholas 289–91

Burns, William 214–15, 217–18, 219, 230, 245–6, 251, 329–30

Bush, George 46, 75, 444–5, 479–80

Bush, George W. 39–40, 77, 81, 99, 108–9, 113, 156, 159, 169, 481–2, 536; and Afghanistan 369, 386, 387, 389; Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty withdrawal 212, 224; and Brazil 171; China policy 455; and Costa Rica 170; and Ecuador 177; and the ICC 161–2, 177; Iran policy 339–40; and Iraq 354; and North Korea 396–7; Southeast Asia policy 445; START I Treaty 231; Syria policy 320; Turkish policy 244–5

Bush Six investigation 207–10

Business Insider 241

Butler, Martin 487–8

Butler, Smedley 53

Bybee, Jay 108, 207–10

Bybee memo, the 108–9

Cablegate cables 9, 80, 145, 155, 156, 181, 182, 184

Calipari, Nicola, murder 200–1

Cameron, David 47

Campbell, Kurt 400, 412–19

Camp David accords 28, 39, 45

Camp Mercury 103

Canada 538

Caribbean, the 483, 534–5

Carney, Tim 512

Carter Cables, the 145, 157

Carter, Jimmy 29, 63, 120, 474–7

Carter Ruck 114–15

Cartwright, James 423

Castro, Fidel 491, 515

Caulfield, John 521–2, 530–1

censorship 11

Center for a New American Security (CNAS) 400

Cerén, Salvador Sánchez 492

Chalabi, Ahmed 83–4

Chamorro, Violeta 58

Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States 138

Chassy, Bruce 188–9

Chávez, Hugo 72, 125, 129, 491, 497; containment policy 538–41; coup attempt against, 2002 30, 59–60, 515–16; death 525, 545; obsession with 515; Petrocaribe program 530–4; popularity 522; radical populist allies 541–4; threat 527–8

Chechen War, Second 215

Cheney, Dick 77, 99

CHEROKEE restriction 13

Chile 49, 516; Article 98 agreements 172; economic reform 69–70; human rights 68–9; ICC-related sanctions 172–3; the Kissinger cables 65–70; Pinochet coup 57, 66–8

China 418, 436, 444, 447; and the Philippines 453–5, 456–7; rise of 447–9, 450, 450–8; US suspicion of 451–5, 470

Christian Science Monitor 216

CIA: and Chile 66–8; coup d’état sponsorship 17–18, 484, 516; covert operations 30; and Ecuador 501–2; in Haiti 64; human rights abuses 75; and Iran 331; in Latin America 51, 57; Omar abduction 206–8; Operation Phoenix 102; overthrow of Mossadegh government 28; Project X 102; rendition 14; and the State Department 4; and Turkey 239–40; use of torture 12, 14, 96, 97, 101–3, 105–9, 206, 386–7; in Venezuela 516

civilians: in Afghanistan 382, 384–5; casualty numbers 86, 88, 89; collateral damage 78, 89–93, 382; definition 12, 87–9; disregard for 76; drone strikes 88–9; killings 86–8; military-aged men 87–9, 91–2; targeting 89–93

Clark, Warren 479

classification levels and markings 6, 6–8, 7–8, 149, 150–2

climate change 469

Clinton, Bill 161, 445, 448, 480

Clinton, Hillary 13, 24, 40, 41, 70–3, 405, 490–1

cluster bombs 378–81

Cockburn, Alexander 306

Cold War 45, 50, 55, 60, 62, 182, 183, 212, 235, 416, 433, 442–4, 527

collateral damage 78

collateral murder 350–2

Colom, Álvaro 535–7

Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs 8–9

Combatant Status Review Tribunals 100

communications, development of 2–3

Communism, threat of 44, 55, 63, 101–2

Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act 478, 479

Congo 28

Congressional Research Reports 14, 15

Congressional Research Service (CRS) 169, 177, 368–9, 371–2

Contras, the 57–58, 306, 492

Contreras-Sweet, Maria 492

conventional prompt global strike (CPGS) 233

Conventional Trident Modification program 233

Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) 379

Copenhagen, Climate Conference 469

corporate corruption 113, 113–17

Correa, Rafael 125–32, 498–503, 516, 541

Cossio, Mario 509

Costa Rica 170

Coughlin, Dan 533

courts, use of WikiLeaks materials 9–10

Crimea 187, 217

Croatia 163

Cserveny, Vilmos 340

Cuba 26, 50, 51, 52, 98, 486

Cuban Missile Crisis 98

Cuban Revolution 57

cyber-war 80

Czech Republic 225, 227

Daalder, Ivo 196–7

Daanoy, Norman 466–7

Dagan, Meir 251, 289–91, 294–5

Damascus Declaration 314, 315

Dasht-E-Leili massacre, Afghanistan 392–4

Davutoğlu, Ahmet 248–51, 260–1

Dayton, Keith 277

Deauville Partnership 47–8

debt, international 45, 123–5

Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea 450

Defense Planning Guidance, 1992 444–5

Defense Trilateral Talks (DTT) 406–7

Déjoie, Louis 62, 63

de Klerk, F. W. 479–80

Delare, Thomas 189–90

democracy promotion 28–9, 39–40, 46–7, 60, 162, 176, 312, 374, 493–4, 496, 518–22

Deng Xiaoping 444, 451

Deniau, Jean-François 341

Denmark 245

Derham, James 535–7, 542–3

Dermer, Ron 271, 274, 283

Der Spiegel (newspaper) 197

De Sutter, Paula 222–3

Detainee Treatment Act (DTA) 386

Diaz, Dave 86

Dictatorships, American relationship to 23–31

Digital Millennium Copyright Act 135

Digital Rights Management technology (DRM) 133–4, 135

Diskin, Yuval 273, 276–7, 285

documents: classification level 6–8, 149, 150–1; numbers published 1–2

dollar diplomacy 44, 126

dollar, the, importance of 121

Dominican Republic 56

Dostum, Ahmad Rashid 393–4

drone strikes 88–89

Duddy, Patrick 531

Duvalier, François “Papa Doc” 53, 62

Duvalier, Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” 53, 58, 62–3, 63, 64

economic liberalization 47–9, 122, 137–40

economic power 112, 112–41, 352–3; capital flight 131, 138; dominance of Wall Street 139–41; exchange rates 120; exercise of 123–32; exposing 113–17; free trade imperialism 117–23, 132–6; importance of the dollar 121; and market-dependency 125–32; money flows 120, 137–8

Economic Support Funds (ESF) 162

Economist 83, 113

Ecuador 18, 497–503, 516; Article 98 agreements 173–6; CIA involvement 501–2; Constituent Assembly 500–1; Correa presidency 498–503; corruption 174–5; democracy promotion 176; ICC-related sanctions 173–7; International Visitor program 174; market-dependency 125–32; oil revenue 127, 128; pharmaceutical licenses 502–3; public spending 130; trade liberalization 127; US ambassador expelled, 2011 503

Edelman, Eric 253–4, 258–9, 261

Egypt 27, 45, 46, 299; coup, 1952 42, 44; coup against the Muslim Brotherhood 41, 48; democracy assistance 30; economic crisis 45; economic reform 47–9; fall of Mubarak 32, 36–40; nationalization of Suez Canal 43; patronage 38; poverty 37; strategic importance 237–8; US aid 30

Eisenhower Doctrine, 44

ElBaradei, Mohamed 248, 339–48, 459–60

Ellsberg, Daniel 18–19

el-Masri, Khaled 201–6

El Salvador 18, 29, 30, 57, 58, 485, 486–92, 537, 538

el-Sisi, Abdel Fattah 48

embassies 3–4

empires 2–3

Erdoğan, Recep Tayyip 17, 31, 244–5, 250, 253–4, 258–9, 260–1, 262

Espionage Act, 1917 7

EU Council, and Article 98 agreements 163

European cables 181–211; and GMOs 187–95; Plan 2015 185–7; and trade relations 184–5, 187–95

European Commission 194

European Court of Justice 206

European Food Safety Authority 195

European Phased Adaptive Approach 331

European Union: collusion with CIA 14; court dealings 200–210; and GMOs 188, 189–90, 194, 194–5; Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Conflict in Georgia 220; resistance to American power 210; and the Ukraine crisis 210; and the war on terror 195–200

Europe, US missile defense 219, 223–30, 330–4

Eurozone, sovereign debt crisis 141

extraordinary rendition 75, 239–40, 261

Fackler, Martin 424–5

Facussé Barjum, Miguel 70, 71

Fallows, James 439

Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) 486–7, 490–2

FARC 125

Fatah 276–7, 278, 280–1, 293

Fayyad, Salam 271, 272

FBI 4

Federal Reserve 120, 127, 139

Fein, Ashden 9

Feith, Douglas 207–10

Fernández, Leopoldo 508–9

Fidan, Hakan 259

Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission 139

financial regulation 136–41

Financial Services Agreement 137

Financial Times 218

Flores, Javier 508

Flourney, Michelle 409–11, 412

Foltz, William J. 27

Forbes magazine 114, 187

Ford, Charles 536, 537

Ford, Robert Stephen 166

Foreign Affairs 217–18

Foreign Military Financing assistance program 166

Foreign Policy 226

Foreign Terrorist Organization list 464

Forgeard, Noel 185

FRAGO 242 protocol 76, 104–5

Fraker, Ford 301–2

France 27, 42, 194–6, 251–2

Frattini, Franco 329

Freedom Agenda 39–40

free market, the 83, 116–17

free trade 12, 40, 73; imperialism 11–12, 117–23, 132–6

Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) 73, 125, 127, 175

French, Philip 521

Friedman, Milton 69, 122

Friedman, Thomas 112

Fukushima nuclear crisis 425, 427

Fukuyama, Francis 444

Funes, Mauricio 490–2

G8, summit, 2011 47

Gaddafi, Muammar 31, 44, 178

Gaidar, Yegor 218

Galant, Yoav 285

Gangotena, Raul 173

Gantz, Benny 272–3, 295–6

Garlasco, Marc 86

Garzón, Baltazar 209–10

Gates, Robert 41, 206–7, 213, 328–9, 331

GATT negotiations, the Uruguay Round 121

Gaza Strip 39, 180, 266, 276–85, 293

General Agreement on Tariffs and Services 137, 140

genetically modified agricultural products (GMOs) 187–95, 210

Geneva conventions 108–9, 270, 385, 393

Georgia: Rose Revolution 212, 220; and South Ossetia 219–22

Germany: ANA Trust Fund contributions 196–7; and the el-Masri case 202–3, 204–6; and the invasion of Iraq 195–6; reunification 212

Ghani, Ashraf 394

Gilad, Amos 274–5, 276, 279, 295–6

Gitmo Files, the 75, 80, 94, 97–101

Giuliani, Rudy 311

Glazer, Charles 489–90

global financial crisis, 2008 113, 136–41, 447, 452, 453

globalization 46, 83, 118, 123, 133

Global Policy Forum 92

Godec, Robert 33–4, 35

Goldberg, Philip 509

Goldstone Report 179, 274–5, 281–3, 285

Goldstone, Richard 281–2

Gonzales, Alberto R. 108, 207–10

Good Neighbor doctrine 50, 53, 54–8

Google Maps 222–3

Gorbachev, Mikhail 212, 223–4, 231

Gordon, Philip 248–51

Gottemoeller, Rose E. 232, 233

Gramsci, Antonio 440

Grandin, Greg 96, 484

Great Britain 182–3, 188; loss of empire 27, 28, 42, 44, 433

Greenlee, David 505–6, 541

Greenwald, Glenn 159–60, 178

Grenada 57, 123

Guam 417

Guam International Agreement 409–10

Guantánamo Bay 75, 75–6, 97–101; military prison opened 99; prisoner numbers 99; prisoner releases 100; use of torture 96, 99; validation 101

Guardian (newspaper) 105, 115, 179, 250

Guatemala 55, 164, 484, 535–6, 542–3

Gülen, Fethullah 17, 254–5, 259–60

Gülen schools 254–8

Gulf War, 1991 45, 46

Guriev, Sergey 214

Gutiérrez, Lucio 174, 175, 497, 498

Hague, William 183

Haiti 18, 26, 30, 49, 50, 58, 486; American involvement 60–5, 510–14; CIA involvement 64; coup, 2004 512; Group of 184 64–5; human rights 64; Lavalas movement 63–4; military intervention 62–3; neoliberal reform 59, 64; occupation, 1915 52–3; Petrocaribe program in 533–4; repression 61–2; UN occupation 65; wages 61, 64

al-Hajj, Sami 75–6, 79

al-Hakim, Muhammad Baqir 84

Hamada, Yasukazu 407

Hamas 265, 266, 276–8, 279–80, 281, 282–3, 284–5, 293

al-Hasani, Muhanad 318

Hatoyama, Yukio 398, 425–6

Hebb, Donald 101

Heinonen, Olli 346–7

Heleno, Augusto 514

Helms, Richard 66

Hersh, Seymour 76

Hezbollah 284

Hill, James 541

Hinchey Report 66

Ho Chi Minh 27

Hodges, Heather 501, 502, 503

Holbrooke, Richard 337–8

Honduras 49, 52, 57, 536–7, 543–4; Article 98 agreements 162; constitution 72; coup, 2009 70–3, 537, 544; US aid 71, 72

Hudson, William 34, 35

Hu Jintao 453–4

human rights 29, 30, 58, 74–111, 475; Afghanistan 78; brutality 76–7; Chile 68–9; Haiti 64; and labeling 78–81; Syria 297–8, 314; and torture 94–111; Tunisia 33–4; US abuses 74–8

Human Rights Watch 282, 357, 364, 366–7

Hurlburt, Heather 216–17

Hussein, Abbas Ali 358

Inamine, Susumu 428–30

India 27

Indochina 27

Indonesia 27, 28, 446, 450, 451–2, 453, 458–9, 463

Institute of International Finance 47

intellectual property 133–4, 135, 467–8

Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty 224

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) 291–2, 323, 339–48, 459–60

International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes 130

International Court of Justice 263, 270

International Criminal Court (ICC) 13, 281; engagement with 177–80; establishment 160; jurisdiction 160–1; related sanctions 169–77; US avoidance of sanctions 162–9; US opposition to 161–2

International Development Bank (IDB) 504, 505–6

International Military Education Training (IMET) program 166

International Monetary Fund 45, 48, 50, 51, 59, 118, 121, 123, 129, 130, 504

International Republican Institute (IRI) 29, 40, 519–20

International Security Assistance Force for Afghanistan” (ISAF) 385

International Studies Association (ISA), 10–11 10

International Studies Quarterly (ISQ) 10

International Trade Union Confederation 136

Iran 23, 28, 238, 321, 322–49, 458; armed confrontation threat 337–9; demonization of 248–51; and France 251–2; ICBM development 225, 226, 229, 230, 330–4; and Israel 251, 286–93, 323–9, 337–9, 348; nuclear program 15, 248–9, 281, 286–93, 294–5, 323, 335–6, 339–48, 348–9, 458–60; and Saudi Arabia 301–2; and Syria 299, 301–2; and Turkey 245–6, 246–53, 329–30; Venezuela’s relationship with 522

Iran-Contra scandal 492

Iraq 28, 42, 44, 350–67; economic warfare 352–3; embargo of 242; invasion of Kuwait 45; sectarianism 84, 85–6, 353–60, 361–3

Iraq Body Count 159

Iraqi Army (IA) 358–9

Iraq, invasion and occupation of 12, 23, 46, 83–6, 239, 288, 300, 369; Baghdad massacre 86–7; civilian casualties 88; collateral murder 350–2; counterinsurgency 84–6, 355; death squads 354–5; drone strikes 88–9; Europe and 195–6; Fallujah siege 88, 90–3, 254, 354, 357–60; human rights abuses 76; Iraqi insurgency 76–8, 362; Operation Phantom Fury 91–2; paramilitary strategy 84–5; reconnaissance by fire policy 353; resistance to 354–5; Sahwa movement 15, 360–3; sectarian divisions 15; Special Police Commandos (SPC) 84–5, 105, 110; use of torture 85, 103–5, 352, 363–7; US surge 360; US terrorism 82; war crimes prosecutions 159–60; war logs 15, 82, 103–4, 363–4

Ireland, Republic of 197–200

Ishak, Bassam 313

ISIS. See Islamic State

Islamic State 15, 16

Israel 14–15, 32, 46, 251, 263–96; American policy 28, 322–3, 323–29; cable numbers 264; ceasefire, 2008 279–80; and Egypt 37, 39; formation of 42; Gaza blockade 39, 277–9; and the Gaza Strip 276–85; ICC referral 178–80; invasion of Gaza 280–1; and Iran 251, 286–93, 323–9, 337–9, 348; and Iran’s nuclear program 281, 286–93, 294–5; National Security Council (NSC) 278; nuclear-weapons 295; Operation Cast Lead 280, 285; Operation Protective Edge 285, 293; quantitative military edge 295–6, 324–6; recent developments 293–6; relations with Palestinians 265–7; secret accord 270–1; settlement building 269–71, 326–7; Six Day War 44; strategic importance 237–8; Turkey and 259; two-state solution 272; US military aid 263; war crimes allegations 178–80, 281–4; and the West Bank 267–6

Italy 200–201, 206–8, 329

Ives, Kim 514, 533

Ivory Coast 114

Jamaica 531–3

Jamail, Dahr 83

Japan 13, 119, 395, 436, 447, 468; Democratic Justice Party 398, 408–9, 410–19, 424–8; foreign policy 397–8; Fukushima nuclear crisis 425, 426; international role 409; Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) 395, 399–400, 408, 409–10, 411, 419, 428; military cooperation 398–9, 405–8, 407, 409–10, 417–18; relations with 397–400; relations with South Korea 401–4

Japan Times 431

Jeffrey, James 252–3

Jemaah Islamiyah 464, 465

Jewell, Linda 176–7, 497–8, 499, 499–500

Jiang Zemin 451

Johnson, Brenda LaGrange 532

Johnson, Lyndon B. 55, 63

Johnson, Nathaniel, Jr. 367

Jones, Deborah K. 257–8

Jones, James 332–3

Jones, Richard 276–7

Jordan 44, 46, 167

Julius Baer Bank 115

Justice Department 107–8

just war 12, 74, 81

Kan, Naoto 414–15, 419, 426–8

Karzai, Hamid 159, 372, 381

Kashan, Ali 179

Kaupthing Bank 115

Keating, Timothy 407–8

Kelly, John F. 537

Kelly, Major General 365–6

Kelsey, Jane 137

Kennedy, John F. 56, 63, 98

Kenney, Kristie 174–5, 175–6, 497

Kerry, John 280, 483

Khaddam, Abdul Halim 303–6, 308

Kim Dae Jung 395, 396, 396–7, 404

Kim Jong Il 397

King, Peter 80

Kirchner, Cristina Fernández de 516

Kirchner, Néstor 538–40

Kirkpatrick, Jeane 28–9

Kislyak, Sergei I. 229–30, 230–1, 332–3

Kissinger, Henry 4, 18–19, 65–70, 145, 472, 475

Kissinger Cables 182–3

Kissinger Files 157

Koenig, John 204–6

Korodi, Attila 191

Kovalik, Dan 512–13

Kurdish Party for Free Life for Kurdistan in Iran 251

Kurds, the 45, 242–6, 259, 309–10

Kuwait 167, 334, 338–9

labels and labeling 78–81, 86, 87–9

LaFeber, Walter 54

Lancet 86

Lang, Pat 384

Lara, Rodríguez 128

La Russa, Ignazio 207

Lasso, Guillermo 500

Latin America: American policy 28–9, 49–73, 483–6; CIA involvement 51, 57; Good Neighbor doctrine 50, 53, 54–8; human rights and neoliberal reform 58–60; ICC-related sanctions 169–77; military intervention 57–8; Monroe Doctrine 49–50, 51–4, 55; neoliberal reform 59–60; Project X 102; radicalization 57; regime change 17–18; right-wing coups 57

law, US forces immunity from 159–60

Lebanon 263

Lee Kwan Yew 457, 467

Lee Myung Bak 396, 404–5, 420–2, 424

Levita, Ariel 289

Levitte, Jean-David 252

Lewis, Jeffrey 226

liberal democratic governance 56

liberal internationalism 25–31

liberalism 25

Library of Congress 9

Libya 31, 32, 44, 148, 178

Lieber, Keir A. 217–18

Lieberman, Avigdor 180

Lind, Denise 9

Lipman, Masha 216

Litvinenko, Alexander, assassination 214–16

López, Leopoldo 525, 526

Losurdo, Domenico 25

Lugar, Richard 190–1

Luzkhov, Yury 214

McCain Amendment, the 385, 387

McChrystal, Stanley 383–4

McCormack, Gavan, 430

McCormack, Sean 493

Macedonia 201–2, 206

McFarland, Stephen G. 530

Machado, María Corina 525

McNamara, Robert 234

Maduro, Nicolás 525, 545

Mahan, Alfred 435–6

Makiya, Kanan 83–4

Malaysia 446, 448, 463, 468, 470

Maldives, the 163

Malema, Julius 482

al-Maliki, Nouri 15, 355, 357, 361

Mandela, Nelson 479–80

Mandela, Winnie 480

Manila, Alberto Romulo 460

Manning, Bradley (now Chelsea) 9, 37, 80–1, 94

Marcos, Ferdinand 443

market-dependency 125–32

Martelly, Michel 533–4

Martin, Edwin 63

Martínez, Mel 207–8

Marx, Karl 132

Mbeki, Govan 478

Mbeki, Thabo 479, 480, 481–2

Mearsheimer, John 434–5

Mehdi Army 354, 358

memorandum of understanding (MOU) 156

Mercosur 529, 541

Merkel, Angela 181

Mexican Revolution, the 26, 52, 53–4

Michaeli, Israel 292

Middle East: American policy 28, 31–49, 237–8, 295–6, 322–3, 348; democracy promotion 39–40, 46–7; peace talks, 2013–14 293

Middle East Free Trade Area 46

Middle East Times 384

military intervention 25, 57–8, 62–63

Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) 488, 532

Minton Report, the 114–15

modernization theory 27

Mohammad, Binyam 199–200

Mohammed, Khalid Sheikh 110

Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) 289

Moldova 164

monetary policy, control of 125–32

Monroe Doctrine 49–50, 51–4, 55, 435, 483

Monroe, Henry 51

Monsanto 187–95

Montealegre, Eduardo 493

Monterrey, Kitty 495–6

Morales, Evo 503–6, 507, 509, 516, 541

Moreno, Ismael 203–4

Moreno, Luis G. 276, 525–6

Morocco 42

Morse, Ronald 427–8

Morsi, Mohamed 48

Mosely, T. Michael 335–7

Mubarak, Hosni 30, 32, 36–40

Mugabe, Robert 481

Mujahedin-e-Khalq, the 251, 339

Mukhin, Aleksey 214

Mulet, Edmond 61

Multilateral Agreement on Investment 136

Muslim Brotherhood 36, 38, 39, 41, 47–8

Myanmar 458, 460–2, 470

Myers, Richard 378

Nabucco pipeline 247, 248

Nation (newspaper) 427, 514, 533

national archives 5

National Democratic Institute (NDI) 519

National Endowment for Democracy (NED) 29, 30, 39, 40, 129, 484, 519

National Intelligence Council 66

National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), 1995 331

Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) 486

National Lawyers Guild 95

National Salvation Front, Syria 303

National Security Archive 66

national security religiosity 6–10

National Security Strategy, 2002 445

national self-determination 26–7

NATO 16, 212, 238–42, 245; and Afghanistan 372, 382, 384, 388, 389

Negroponte, John 84, 354–5

neoliberalism 57, 59–60, 64

Netanyahu, Benjamin 264, 266, 267–70, 271, 274, 281, 282, 286–7, 326–8, 335

Nethercutt Amendment, the 162, 177

Neumann, Ronald E. 166

New People’s Army 464

New Republic 216–17

Newsnight (TV program) 197, 198

New START Treaty negotiations 231–4

Newsweek (magazine) 88

New World Order 46

New York Times 11, 88–9, 148, 184, 333, 335, 398–9, 411–12, 420, 426, 431, 445–6, 474

Nicaragua 18, 26, 50, 51, 57, 57–8, 60, 123, 484, 516, 542; Contra war 306; democracy promotion 493–4, 496; elections, 1990 58; occupation, 1912 52; US intervention 492–7

Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN) 495–6

Nikel, Rolf 205–6

Nixon, Richard 63, 66, 67, 119–20, 471–2

Non-Aligned Movement 460

Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference, 2009 460

Noriega, Roger 23, 173

North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) 121

Northern Rock 115

North Korea 23, 395, 458, 460; ICBM development 226, 229, 333–4, 410, 423; nuclear-weapons 397, 420, 423; and South Korea 396–7, 420–4

Ntaganda, Bosco 178

nuclear-weapons 217–19, 223–5, 231–6, 413; Israel 295; North Korea 397, 420, 423

Nuclear-Weapons-Free Zone in the Middle East (MENWFZ) 291–2

nuclear-weapons treaties 213, 224, 231–4, 291–2

Nyýazow, Saparmyrat 24

Obama, Barack 156, 225, 408–9, 482; and Afghanistan 382–4; antiwar platform 401; applepie rhetoric 24–5; China policy 455–8; East Asia policy 395–6; engagement with ICC 177–80; and Guantánamo 101; and the Honduran coup, 2009 71–2, 73; Iran policy 326; Israel policy 271, 283, 323, 326–8; and Japan 408–19; Middle East policy 41; missile-defense program 331; and Mubarak 38–9; and North Korea 423–4; Palestinian negotiations 326–8; Southeast Asia policy 446–50, 467–9; and South Korea 397; Syria policy 297–8, 314, 320–21; and torture prosecutions 160; and Tunisia 35; and the Ukraine crisis 210; UN speech, May 2011 47

Ocampo, Luis Moreno 179

Office of Public Safety 101

Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI) 517–18, 519, 520, 523, 525

oil 42, 127, 128, 148–9, 245–6, 454–5, 515, 530–4, 535–7

Okinawa 398, 417, 426, 427, 428–32

Omar, Abu, abduction 206–8

Operation Condor 69

Operation Enduring Freedom – Philippines 445

Organization of American States (OAS) 71, 128, 483

Ortega, Daniel 492, 493, 495, 496–7, 516, 542

Oslo Accords 265, 277, 327

Ottawa Treaty 379

Oxfam 123

P5+1 15, 286, 294, 328

Pacific Alliance 529

Pakistan 75

Palacio, Alfredo 175, 176–7

Palestine 39, 42, 179, 265–7; elections 266; security 272–3; statehood rights 271–4; two-state solution 272

Palestinian Authority (PA) 179–80, 265–6, 276, 293, 328. See also Gaza Strip; West Bank, the

Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) 265

Palin, Sarah 80

Panama 23, 52, 542

Panama Canal 54–5

Pan-American Development Foundation 523

Paoli, Patrice 270

Paraguay 167–9, 529

paramilitary strategy 84–5

Paris, Treaty of 436–7

Park Geun-hye 424

Parra, Antonio 175–6

Partnership of the Americas maritime exercise 534–5

Patek, Umar 466

Patterson, P. J. 531–2

Paul, Ron 311

Pentagon, the 9

Pentagon Papers, the 18–19

Petraeus, David 41, 84, 328–9, 338, 363–4

Petrocaribe 517, 530–4, 535–7, 545

PETROSUR 125–6

Philippine-American War (1899–1902) 439

Philippines, the 26, 58, 435–41, 442, 445–6, 448, 449, 459–60, 469, 470; counter-terrorism operations 463–7; relations with China 453–5, 456–7

Pinochet, Augusto 67–70

Pitsuwan, Surin 461–2

Pivot to Asia strategy 446–7, 470

PKK [Kurdistan Workers Party] 243–4

Plan 2015 185–7

Plan Colombia 51

Plocker, Sever 264

Poland 192–4, 225, 227

Polanyi, Karl 132

Polaroid Experiment, the 476

Politkovskaya, Anna 215

Porter, Patrick 441

Powell, Colin 109, 493

Pozo, Mauricio 174

Press, Darryl G. 217–18

Préval, René 61

prisoner-of-war status, denial of 108–9

public diplomacy 5

Public Library of US Diplomacy (PLUSD) 12–13, 145–6; access 153–5; metadata 149–52; publication 155–8; searching 146, 153–5; search interface 153–4, 157; titles 150; Traffic Analysis by Geography and Subject 152

Putin, Vladimir 182, 212, 213–16

Quintana, Juan Ramón 509

Rachmianto, Andy 458–9

Rademaker, Stephen 172, 173

Rasmussen, Andars Fogh 245

Reagan, Ronald 28–9, 57, 58, 63, 223–4, 477–8, 484

Really Good Friends of Services 137

realpolitik 24, 30

redactions 156

Reich, Otto 487

Reprieve 89

resource nationalism 148

Rewards for Justice program 178

Rhodesia 472

RIA Novosti 234–5

Rice, Condoleezza 169, 243, 346, 401, 514, 538

right to protect 14

Rio conference, 2007 527

Robinson, Ronald 532

Robinson, William I. 484

Roebuck, William 298, 300, 303, 305–6, 306–7, 308, 308–11

rogue states 458–62

Roh Moo-hyun 396, 404, 420

Romania 163, 189–92, 225

Rome Statute, the 160–2; Assembly of States Parties 178

Rood, John 228–9

Roosevelt, Franklin D. 25, 50, 53, 54, 60

Rosales, Manuel 520

Ross, Dennis 326–8

Rubin, Eric 213

Ruiz, Leah 459–60

Rumsfeld, Donald 103–4, 109, 174, 195–6, 300, 331, 378, 389

Russell, Daniel A. 222–3, 226–8

Russia 187, 212–36; annexation of Crimea 217; criminal/mafia world 214; criticism of leadership 213–14; and Georgia 219–22; and Google Maps 222–3; Iranian missile threat 332–4; and NATO expansion 212; New START Treaty negotiations 231–4; nuclear-weapons fears 233–6; rollback of democratic reforms 212; and Ukraine 217; US missile defense fears 219, 223–30; US relations with 17

Russo-Georgian War, 2008 219

Saakashvili, Mikhail 220, 221

Saar, Erik 99

Saca, Antonio 487

Saddam Hussein 23, 45, 83, 195, 354, 357–8

Saleh, Ali Abdullah 40–1

Saleh, Ibrahim 32–3

Sale, Richard 384

Sam, Jean Vilbrun Guillaume 53

Samore, Gary 328–9

Sanderson, Janet 510–12

Sandinista movement 57, 58, 492–3

Sarkozy, Nicolas 181

satellite surveillance 213, 222–3

Saudi Arabia 32, 45, 299, 334, 334–5; invasion of Bahrain 41; and Iran 301–2; strategic importance 42; and Syria 301–2, 304

al-Saud, Muqrin bin Abdulaziz 301

Schaffer, J. Thomas 401–4

Schulte, Gregory L. 292, 341–4, 345–6, 346–7

Schultz, George 224

Scobey, Margaret 36–8

secrets, leaking 80–1

sectarianism 84, 85–6, 353–60

security clearance 7, 18–19

self-determination 25–7

Shannon, Thomas 542

Shapiro, Andrew 324–6

Sharon, Ariel 288–9

Sheehan, Neil 437–8

Shevardnadze, Eduard 220

Shuvalov, Igor 214

Significant Action Reports (SIGACTs) 14

Sike, Wu 327

Silva, Lula da 516, 538–39, 540

Singapore 448, 457–8, 468, 470

Sinirlioğlu, Feridun 245–6, 329–30

Skelton, Ike 268–9

Slaughter, Anne-Marie 40

Smith, Stuart 256–7

Snowden, Edward 17

Solidarity Center 40

South Africa 471–82, 514; ANC 478–80, 481–82; Carter administration and 474–7; constructive engagement policy 477–80; G. W. Bush administration and 481; Nixon administration and 470–4; Obama administration and 482

South China Sea 449, 450, 454–5

SOUTHCOM 534–5

Southeast Asia 13, 433–5, 441–4, 467–70; strategic importance 444–50; war on terror 463–7

Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) 442

South Korea 13, 28, 395, 396–7, 447; foreign policy 421; military cooperation 406–8, 408; and North Korea 396–7, 420–4; relations with America 404–5, 420–2; relations with Japan 401–4; Truth and Reconciliation Commission 396; Yeongpyeong incident 422–3

South Ossetia 219–22

South Vietnam 28

sovereign debt crisis 141

sovereignty 130

Soviet Union 43, 45, 55; collapse of 444

Spain 203–4, 207–10

Spanish-American War, 1898 51, 53

Special Operations Command Pacific 445–6

Spirnak, Madelyn 192–94

Sri Lanka 163

Stapleton, Craig 194–5

START I Treaty 231

State Department: and Chile 68, 70; definition of terrorism 82; foundation 4; internal communications 5–6; Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) 314; overseas public relations strategy 81; public diplomacy budget 5; role 4–5

State Department cables: access 153–5; acronyms 153; archive 145–6; bias 148–9; classification levels 150–2; content 151; dynamic nature of 147; frequency 150; ideology 149; keywords 148; length 145; metadata 149–52; need for critical distance 148; numbers 145; publication 155–8; reading 146–53; redactions 156; reference ID system 150; reftel 152; role of 147; searching 146, 148, 153–5; structure 152–3; titles 150; Traffic Analysis by Geography and Subject 152; writers 147

status of forces agreements 159

Steele, James 105, 354–5, 363

Steele, Michael D. 367

Steinberg, James 267, 408, 420–1

Stephens, D. Kathleen 420–2

Strategic Defense Initiative 223–4

Streltsov, Mikhail 232, 234

Sudan 458, 460

Suez Crisis 43

Suleiman, Omar 37

Sullivan, Leon 476–7

Sullivan, Mark 501–2

Súmate 518–19, 525

Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) 83–4

Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council (SIIC) 84

Syria 17, 23, 31, 32, 297–321; civil war 15–16, 300–301; destabilization 298–9, 302–6, 310–12; government legitimacy 307–8; human rights 298, 314; and Iran 299, 301–2; and the Kurds 309–10; opposition 303–6; opposition funding 312–20; paranoia 305–6, 312; resistance to economic reforms 306–7, 308–9, 312; and Saudi Arabia 301–2, 304; sectarianism 300–301; terrorism in 310–11; US military intervention 297; US policy 297–301, 320–21

Tagliavini, Heidi 220

Taguba, Antonio 364

Taguba Report, the 97

Tahrir Square, Cairo 38

Taliban, the 78, 372, 373, 382, 388–9, 393

Taplin, Mark 190

Taubman, Nicholas 190

Tefft, John 221–2

TeleSUR 125–6

Tenet, George 107

terrorism: definition 12, 75, 80–6; as norm 92–3; in Syria 310–11; WikiLeaks accused of 80, 92–3

terrorists: definition 79, 80–1; Turkey and 251–3

Thabit, Adnan 84

Thailand 107, 442, 446, 448, 452–3, 461–62

Tighe, Thomas 531–2, 533

torture 77, 82; Afghanistan 385–7; American use of 97–109, 111, 363–7, 385–7; CIA use of 12, 14, 96, 97, 101–3, 105–9, 206; definition 12, 94–7, 108, 111; effectiveness 107, 109–11; Iraq 85, 352, 363–7; legality 95–6, 107–8; methods 94, 97, 102–3, 104–5, 106, 107, 363; professionals 106–7, 367; prosecutions 160; psychological 97, 101–3; public opinion on 96; purpose 109–11; rationale 99, 107; report numbers 105; spin 365, 367; validation 101

torture memos, the 95–6

Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) 132, 134–5, 136

Trade-Related Intellectual Property agreements 133, 135

Traffic Analysis by Geography and Subject 152

Trafigura 114–15

Trans-Pacific Partnership [TPP] Free Trading Agreement 117, 132, 133–4, 135–6, 467–9

Treaty of Amity and Cooperation 449

Tripartite Core Group (TCG) 462

Trivelli, Paul 493–5, 496, 542

Trujillo, Rafael 56

Truman, Harry 25, 441, 471

Tunisia 31, 33–35, 37, 42, 45, 47

Turkey 16–17, 32, 237–62; corruption 258–9; economic growth 256; energy strategy 245–8; extraordinary rendition charge 239–40, 261; foreign policy 252–3; Gülen Community 254–8, 259–60; Incirlik Air Base 239–41; intelligence sharing 243–5; internal affairs 253–61; and Iran 245–53, 329–30; Israel and 259; the Kissinger cables 65–6; and the Kurds 242–6, 259; NATO membership 238–42, 245; oil imports 245–6; strategic importance 237–42; and terrorists 251–3

Turkish Petroleum Company (TPAO) 246

Turkmenistan 23–4, 31

twenty-first-century socialism 129

Ukraine 17, 187; crisis, 2014 210; Orange Revolution 212; Russia and 217

UN Convention Against Torture 95–6, 108, 109

Union of South American Nations 508

United Arab Emirates (UAE) 334, 335–8

United Fruit Company 55

United Nations 47, 65; Human Rights Commission 68–9; Human Rights Council 281

United Nations Security Council 161, 178, 179, 263, 270–1, 283, 340, 473–4

United States of America: aid to Egypt 30; ANA Trust Fund financial malfeasance 196–7; avoidance of ICC sanctions. 162–9; colonialism 26–7, 435–41; diplomatic service 4; economic power 11–12, 112–41; embassies 3–4; empire 3–6, 11–12, 112–13; energy strategy 248; engagement with ICC 177–80; European policy 182–3; exceptionalism 434–5; foreign policy aims 237, 261; free trade imperialism 117–23; hegemony 42, 118, 433, 441, 444–6; human rights abuses 74–8; hypocrisy 30–1; Iran policy 339–40; Israel Lobby 264; Israel policy 28, 322–3, 323–9; Jewish organizations 294; Latin America policy 28–9, 49–73, 483–6; laws concerning torture 95–6; manifest destiny 25, 437; market-dependency policy 125–32; Middle East policy 28, 31–49, 237–8, 295–6, 322–3, 348; military aid 24, 263; military power 112–13; military spending 44; nuclear primacy 217–18; official secrecy 12; overseas public relations strategy 81; relationship to dictatorships 23–31; relationship with Britain 182–3; relations with South Korea 404–5, 420–2; support for anti-colonial movement 27; Syria policy 297–301, 311–12, 320–1; trade relations with Europe 184–5, 187–95; use of torture 97–109, 111, 363–6, 385–7; war crimes allegations 284

UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) 61, 510–14

USAID 18, 101, 484, 487–88, 497, 506, 506–7, 509, 517–18, 519, 520, 522, 523, 525

US Army, definition of terrorism 82

US Coast Guard 170

US forces, immunity from local law 159–60

US International Military Education and Training funding 34

USIS 84

US Navy 167

US Southern Command Situational Assessment Team 509

Valdez, Juan Gabriel 512–13

Valenzuela, Arturo 544

Vance, Cyrus 475

Vásquez, Romeo 544

Venediktov, Aleksey 215

Venevtsev, Vladimir 230

Venezuela 18, 72, 486, 515–31; cable mentions 526; CIA involvement 516; coup attempt, 2002 30, 51, 59–60, 515–16, 525–6; democracy promotion 518–22; dividing Chavismo 524; isolation efforts 538–41, 544–5; oil resources 515; opposition 520–2; penetrating the Chavista base 522–4; Petrocaribe program 517, 530–4, 535–7, 545; post-Chávez 517, 524–6, 545; radical populist allies 541–4; regional threat 526–31; relationship with Iran 522; resource nationalism 148–9; US intervention 515–16, 516–17, 517–26, 544–5

Venezuelan Bolivarianism 484

Vershbow, Alexander 213, 272–3, 284

Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations 485

Vietnam 123–5, 453, 468, 470

Vietnam War 44, 101–2, 119, 442

Volcker, Paul 59, 120

Volcker Shock, the 59, 120

Vorster, John 474, 476

Waked, Amr 38

Walid, Abdul 85

Walker, Ignacio 172

Wall Street Journal (newspaper) 48

war crimes 75, 92, 164; allegations against Israel 178–80, 281–4; immunity 159–60; prosecutions 159–60

Warner, Ted 232–3, 234, 235

war on drugs 169, 175

war on terror 12, 34, 40, 169, 210, 261, 448; Europe and 195–200; justice and accountability 197–200; Southeast Asia 463–7; and torture 105

Washington Consensus, the 141, 485

Washington Model, the 128

Washington Post (newspaper) 78, 389–90, 483–4

Waterman, Shaun 365–6

Weekend Australian 400

Weinstein, Allen 30

Weir, Fred 216

Weissglass, Dov 278

West Bank, the 265–76

West Germany 119

Whitaker, Kevin 523

WikiLeaks: aims 158; and the Arab Spring 32–3; corporate investigations 113–17; document numbers published 1–2; domains 8; internet access to blocked 9; Jewish conspiracy theory 264; principles 157; publication schedule 155–8; search interface 153–4, 157; terrorism charge 80, 92–3; US government fatwa against 8–9

Wilentz, Amy 59, 64

Williard, James 536–7

Wilson, Ross 239–40

Wilson, Woodrow 25, 26–7, 52, 53, 53–4, 439

Wisner, Frank G. 39

Woosang, Kim 404

World Bank 64, 130, 504

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) 133, 135

World Trade Center attacks, 9/11/2001 90, 368–9

World Trade Organization (WTO) 121, 123, 131, 133, 136, 502

World War I 26, 52

World War II 27, 433, 442

Worthington, Andy 99–100

Yabunaka, Mitoji 416

Yadlin, Amos 277

Yamaoka, Kenji 413–14

al-Yaqubi, Muhammad 356

Yemen 32, 40–1, 164

Yoo, John 95–6, 108, 207–10

Young, Andrew 475–6

Yudhoyono, Susilo Bambang 470

al-Zarqawi, Abu Musab 77

Zelaya, Manuel 70, 71–2, 73, 536–7, 543–4

Zimbabwe 481

Zubaydah, Abu 96, 106–7

Zuma, Jacob 482, 514

Zumwalt, James P. 407, 409, 412–13