Acheson, Dean G. 18n9, 37, 39–40, 57, 61n12, 79, 87n14

Act of Chapultepec (1945) 86

Adams, Brooks 7, 18n9

Adams, John 4

Adelman, Kenneth L. 110n13

Afghanistan

future regime 256–7

Operation Enduring Freedom 127, 133–4, 142–3, 222

Saur Revolution 104–6

US support for mujahedin 125–6, 197

and the USSR 107, 113

Africa

and the Cold War 69, 83n12, 98, 101

colonialism 35, 70, 99–100

US operations 223, 225–6

Al Qaeda 123, 126–7, 242, 246

Albright, Madeleine K. 179, 196n8, 201

Algeria 98

Allende, Salvador 94

Alsop, Joseph W. 36n11 America at the Crossroads (Fukuyama) 237–41, 243–5, 248, 250, 252–3

America in the World (ed. Hogan) 49n33

The American Interest (journal) 173, 249, 253

American-Russian Relations (Williams) 43–4

America’s Economic Supremacy (Adams) 7, 18n9

America’s Grand Strategy and World Politics (Art) 119n5, 209–17

America’s Strategy in World Politics (Spykman) 13–16, 24, 52–3

Angola 100, 113

Arab Spring 141–2

Architects of Globalism (Hearden) 18n9

Argentina 87, 89

Aron, Raymond 207

Art, Robert J. 14n3, 119n5, 209–17, 225, 230–3

Asia

and the Cold War 69–70, 74–80, 83n12, 93

financial crisis 117

US operations 16, 65, 127, 146–7, 182, 196, 206

see also China; Eurasia; Japan; Korea

Assad, Bashar al- 140–1, 144, 256, 257

Atlantic Pact (1949) 58

Australia 77n5, 147, 196

Bacevich, Andrew J. 129n12, 235

Baghdad Pact 83–4

Bahrain 141

Balkans 202, 240

see also Bosnia; Kosovo

Barnett, Thomas P. M. 219–26, 228, 230–1, 232

Begin, Menachem W. 96

Beinart, Peter A. 164n8

Belgium 19, 99

Berger, Samuel R. ‘Sandy’ 121

Bin Laden, Osama 134

Bobbitt, Philip C. 165n8, 240

Bosnia 120, 176

Brazil 26n20, 88

Brenner, Robert P. 51, 108n11

Bretton Woods 25, 92, 152, 211

Brezhnev, Leonid I. 93, 107

Britain

colonies 27, 70–1, 78, 80, 98–9

economy 54, 57

imperial preference 18, 19, 25

and the Middle East 81n9, 82–3, 84, 104, 144–5

post–Second World War role 16, 25–6, 62, 211

during the Second World War 17, 61

and the US 170–2, 176, 195

Broad, William J. 261n3

Brzezinski, Zbigniew K.

and Afghanistan 107

and Clinton 116

and Fukuyama 253

and Ikenberry 179

and the Ogaden Crisis 101

political strategy 197–209, 215, 229, 230–1, 232–3

Bundy, McGeorge 88n16

Burma 76

Bush, George H. W. 111, 115, 116, 204–5

Bush, George W.

and Iran 222–3

and Iraq 125, 169, 178, 240–1, 244–5

neo-conservatism 181, 183, 205, 230

and religion 41

and Russia 131

war on terror 46, 122, 127

Calleo, David P. 150n11, 235

Cambodia 97

Cambridge History of the Cold War (ed. Leffler and Westad) 47, 48

Camp David Accords 96–7

Carter, James E. ‘Jimmy’ 95, 96, 97, 102, 104n9, 198

The Case for Goliath (Mandelbaum) 174

Central America 6, 9, 86–7, 101–3, 107

see also Nicaragua; Panama

Cheney, Richard B. ‘Dick’ 230, 241

Chiang Kai-shek 25, 74

Chile 89, 94

China

and Afghanistan 131

alliance with 93–4, 96, 97, 182, 221, 223

civil war 74

growing power 146–8, 152–3, 164, 203, 212–13, 226–8

Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty 115, 261

post–Second World War role 16, 25, 172

strategic encirclement 206–7, 209

and Syria 140

trade with 18, 168

and the West 175, 184–5, 193–4, 196, 232–3

The Choice (Brzezinski) 198, 202

Churchill, Winston S. 19, 21

CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)

and Africa 99, 100

creation and growth 37, 148

and Indonesia 79

and Latin America 87–8, 94n2, 103n8, 114

and the Middle East 82, 84, 114

and money 73n2, 106, 125

and torture 78, 135n2

Civil War (American) 6, 193

Clark, Paul Coe 102n7

Clinton, William J. ‘Bill’ 116–22, 163, 176, 177–8, 205, 259

Coatsworth, John H. 103n8

Cold War

in Africa 98–101

aftermath 113–14, 151–2, 183–4, 191, 201, 238, 248

in Asia 60–1, 74–80, 91–2, 97

China and Russia 93–4

and colonialism 69–71, 123

covert operations 66–7, 71–3, 82–3

economic order 51–6, 62, 108–11, 116–17

historiography 43–50

ideology 31–6, 40–2, 95, 151, 174–5

in Latin America 85–9, 94, 101–3

in the Middle East 80–5, 94–5, 96–7, 104–6, 125–6

military strength 63–6, 220

Soviet foreign policy 30–1, 106–8

Truman Doctrine 29–30, 36–8, 42–3, 53

a US project 58n10

and Western Europe 55–9, 61–2, 91–2

Congo 99, 100, 101

The Contours of American History (Williams) 43–4

Cuba 9, 87–9, 100, 101, 102

Czechoslovakia 34, 67, 107, 110

Daalder, Ivo H. 195, 196n8

Dangerous Nation (Kagan) 192–3, 195, 225

de Gaulle, Charles 21

Democracy’s Good Name (Mandelbaum) 174, 178

Deng Xiaoping 97, 175

the Depression 11, 54

Diplomacy (Kissinger) 161, 162

Dismantling the Empire (Johnson) 235

Doha Round 131, 145, 205

Dominican Republic 88

Dulles, Allen W. 66n19, 99n5

Dulles, John F. 33, 67

Dumbarton Oaks 25–6

Dutch East Indies 79

Eastern Europe

communism 20–1, 29–31

containment 35–6, 45

expansion of NATO 119–21, 131, 176, 178, 201–2, 212

response to revolts 67, 107–8, 110–11

see also Ukraine; USSR

Eden, R. Anthony 83

Egypt

and the Arab Spring 141

and Britain 80

current government 142, 255

and Israel 84, 85, 94–5, 96–7, 124

Suez crisis 83

Eisenhower, Dwight D. 82–3, 99n5

El Salvador 102

The End of History and the Last Man (Fukuyama) 237, 246–7, 251–2

The End of the American Era (Kupchan) 184

Ethiopia 100–1, 113

Eurasia 59, 69, 72n1, 200–4, 206, 208–9, 216

Europe

and the Cold War 46, 55–9, 61–2

colonies 27, 69–73, 76–80, 98–100, 123

economic alliance with US 145–6, 226–8

expansion of NATO 111, 119–21, 131, 176, 178, 201–2, 211–12

First World War 10–11

and the Iraq War 244–6

and the Middle East 136, 144–5

post–Second World War economy 92–3

power politics 190–1, 195–6

resistance movements 19

Second World War 16–20, 25–7

see also Britain; Eastern Europe; France; Germany

European Union

free trade pacts 226–7, 260

and the Middle East 145

and Turkey 131

and Ukraine 258–60

and US power 184, 186, 192, 202, 232

‘The Exaggeration of American Vulnerability’ (Thompson) 38n16

Financial Times (newspaper) 244

First World War 9–10, 227

Fisher, Louis 136n5

Foglesong, David S. 66n19

‘Foreign Policy as Social Work’ (Mandelbaum) 176

Forging a World of Liberty under Law (Ikenberry and Slaughter) 179–80

Forrestal, James V. 37n15, 56

France

colonies 27, 35, 70–1, 76–8, 80–1, 98–9

and the left 19, 29, 61–2

and the Middle East 83, 84, 144–5, 245

Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty 115

post–Second World War economy 57–8, 92

during the Second World War 20–1

Franco, Francisco 20–1

Friedman, Thomas L. 177

The Frugal Superpower (Mandelbaum) 177, 178

Fukuyama, Francis 173, 231, 237–53

Gaddis, John Lewis 38n17, 44–6, 52n2

Gardner, Lloyd C. 44, 52n2

GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) 59, 116

Germany

capture of Berlin 30n3

East Germany 67, 107, 110–11

and the Middle East 136, 145, 245

post–Second World War economy 54, 58–9, 62, 91–2, 95–6, 152

and US hegemony 14–17, 21, 29, 47, 202

Gleijeses, Piero 87n14

The Global Cold War (Westad) 47, 49n33

God and Gold (Mead) 170–2, 224

Gorbachev, Mikhail S. 109–11, 118, 175

Gordon, Lincoln 88n16

The Grand Chessboard (Brzezinski) 198, 200–4

A Grand Strategy for America (Art) 214n32, 216

Great Powers (Barnett) 219–26, 228

Greece 19, 40n19, 42, 61

Guantánamo 135

Guatemala 87, 102

Gulf War 114–15, 121, 124, 128n12, 139, 204–5

Haiti 9, 176, 245

Harding, Warren G. 11

Harper, John L. 22n13, 34n8, 47n30

Hearden, Patrick J. 44

Hegel, Georg W. F. 247, 252

Helms, Richard M. 87n14

Helsinki Accords 108

Hendrickson, David C. 128n12

Hiroshima 30, 32, 63

Hogan, Michael J. 37n15, 49n33

Hull, Cordell 11, 12, 26, 57, 81

Hungary 67, 107, 110–11

I

The Ideas that Conquered the World (Mandelbaum) 174, 178

Ikenberry, G. John 174, 179–83, 193, 196, 230–2

India 80, 131–2, 147, 205, 207, 223, 226

Indochina 76–8, 80

see also Vietnam

Indonesia 79–80, 117, 213

The Influence of Sea Power upon History (Mahan) 7

Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (1947) 86

Iran

and Europe 145, 245

and Hezbollah 242

Islamic Republic 104–5, 143, 178, 257–8

nuclear capability 137–8, 180, 210, 222–3, 225, 231–2

oil 82–3

sanctions and cyber-war 138–9

and Syria 141

Iraq

Baath party 83–4, 139

and Europe 81, 190, 244–5

Gulf War 114–15, 121, 204–5

insurgency 256, 246

Iran–Iraq War 105

Iraq Liberation Act (1998) 121–2, 125

Iraq War 127–32, 133–4, 172, 196–7, 205, 214, 222, 238–43

regional power 142

weapons of mass destruction 169, 178

ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) 256, 257

Israel

Camp David Accords 96–7

and the Cold War 81, 94–5

nuclear capability 115, 257

and Palestine 142, 204–5, 212, 255

relationship with US 123–5, 137–8, 178–9, 231–2, 243–4

Six-Day War 84–5

and Syria 139, 141

Yom Kippur War 85

Italy 19, 29, 57–8, 61

Jackson–Vanik amendment 95

Japan

and China 10, 16, 74–5, 207

and the Cold War 35, 54–5, 57

economic growth 76, 91–2, 95–6, 152

future role 184, 203, 212–13, 260

post-war reforms 60–1, 62

Second World War deaths 159n2

and US power 14–15, 21, 146, 147, 181, 211

see also Hiroshima

Jefferson, Thomas 4

Johnson, Chalmers A. 128n12, 147n9, 235

Johnson, Lyndon B. 40n19, 78

Jordan 85, 140

Kagan, Robert 4n3, 189–97, 225, 229, 230–2, 238, 248

Karzai, Hamid 256–7

Kennan, George F.

and China 74n3, 131n15

and containment 33–6, 75n4, 77, 79n7, 98n4

and covert operations 67, 94n2

and democracy 39, 60, 61n13, 86

and the Middle East 82n10, 104n9

and national security 37

and religion 40–1

on Roosevelt 21n12

Kennedy, John F. 33, 41, 77–8, 87–8

Kennedy, Robert F. 87n15

Keynes, John Maynard 26n19

Kiernan, Victor 6n7

Kimball, Warren F. 49n33

Kissinger, Henry A. 94n2, 107, 161–2, 169n4, 179, 197–8

Kohl, Helmut 111

Kojève, Alexandre V. 247, 248–9, 252

Kolko, Gabriel 21n12, 24, 44, 48, 235

Korea 35, 75–6, 117, 160n2, 210, 212–13

Kornbluh, Peter 94n2

Kosovo 120–1, 240

Krauthammer, Charles 244, 245–6, 249

Kristol, William 238, 248, 249

Kupchan, Charles A. 183–8, 193n5, 229, 230–1, 232

Kuwait 114

LaFeber, Walter 44, 86n13

Lake, Anthony 176

Latin America

Cold War 85–9, 101–3

resources 69

US imperialism 14–15, 26, 35, 65, 70–2

see also Central America; South America

Layne, Christopher 129n12, 206n19, 234, 235

League of Democracies 194, 195–6, 231

Lebanon 80–1, 84, 124, 141, 245

Leffler, Melvyn P. 47–8, 53, 67n19, 163

Legro, Jeffrey W. 163

Liberal Leviathan (Ikenberry) 180–3

Libya 136–7, 140, 144, 145, 197, 257

Lippmann, Walter 33, 72n1

The Logic of World Power (Schurmann) 23–5, 36n13

London Review of Books (journal) 253

Lumumba, Patrice E. 99

Mahan, Alfred T. 7

Malaya 76

Maliki, Nouri al- 256

Mandelbaum, Michael 156n1, 174–9, 193, 229, 231, 232

Mann, James 136n5, 241

Manning, Chelsea E. 135–6

Mao Zedong 93, 97, 107

Marshall Plan 58, 79

Mayers, David A. 82n10

Mazzetti, Mark 135n2

McCormick, Thomas J. 42n23, 43n24, 44, 49n33, 58n9

Mead, Walter Russell 159–61, 167–73, 224, 229, 230–1

Mearsheimer, John J. 165n8, 253

Mexico 4–5, 9, 116, 117

Middle East

Arab Spring 141–2

and the Cold War 65, 70, 80–5, 94–5, 125–6

disunity 142–3

future policy 212, 231, 253

Islamism 126–7, 164, 168, 172, 255–7, 246

oil 42, 69, 216, 223

war on terror 178, 191, 204, 242–3

see also Afghanistan; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Saudi Arabia; Syria; Turkey; Yemen

Miscamble, Wilson D. 30n2, 60n11, 67n20, 79n7

Mobutu Sese Seko 99

Monroe doctrine 85

Mortal Splendor (Mead) 167

Mussolini, Benito 20–1

NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) 116, 181–2

Nagasaki 30, 32, 40, 63

Nasser, Gamal Abdel 83, 84

The National Interest (journal) 173, 243

National Security Act (1947) 37

National Security Council (NSC) 37, 148

NATO

and American hegemony 180–1, 210–11

expansion to the east 111, 119–21, 131, 176, 178, 212, 259

and Germany 59

and the Middle East 136, 140

and Russia 186, 201–2, 232, 258

Netherlands 78–9

New Deal 11, 22, 24

Nicaragua 9, 101–3, 113, 189, 250

Niebuhr, Reinhold 172, 173

9/11 46, 122–3, 127, 168, 175, 191, 204, 242

Nitze, Paul H. 33, 66, 95, 116, 119

Nixon, Richard M. 91–5, 107, 136, 162, 227

No One’s World (Kupchan) 184–8

Noriega Morena, Manuel Antonio 114

Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (1968) 115, 180, 261

Nye, Joseph S. 52n2, 165n8

Obama, Barack H. 41, 133–6, 138–9, 143–50, 196–7, 255–7, 261

Of Paradise and Power (Kagan) 189–92, 195

Offner, Arnold A. 29n1, 63n15

Ogaden crisis 101

Oil Crisis (1973) 95

Olney Corollary 85, 89

Open Door policy 5, 9, 10, 18–19, 44, 55, 216

Operation Desert Storm 114–15, 121, 124, 128n12, 139, 204–5

Operation Enduring Freedom 127, 133–4, 142–3, 222 see also Afghanistan

Operation Odyssey Dawn 136–7, 140, 144, 145, 148, 197

Organization of American States (OAS) 86

Oslo Accords 141

O’Sullivan, John 4n4

Out of Control (Brzezinski) 198–200

Pahlavi, Mohammad Reza Shah 82, 104

Pakistan 80, 84, 106, 126, 134, 222

Palestine 81, 124, 126, 141–2, 204–5, 212, 231, 255

Panama 5, 103, 114, 115

Pearl Harbour 23, 191

Perry, Matthew C. 5

Pétain, Philippe 21

Philippines 76, 191, 213

Plaza Accord 1985 96

Poland 34, 108, 110

The Politics of War (Kolko) 19n10, 24, 44, 48, 63n15

Pollack, Kenneth 240

Popov, Vladimir 108n11

Portugal 100

Power, Terror, Peace and War (Mead) 168–9

Pravda, Alex 111n15

A Preponderance of Power (Leffler) 47, 53, 81n9

Princeton Project on National Security 179

Project for a New American Century 241–2

The Public Interest (journal) 238

Putin, Vladimir V. 131, 144, 221, 225, 258–9

Qatar 140, 142

The Radical Left and American Foreign Policy (Tucker) 53n4

Reagan, Ronald W. 102, 105, 109, 110n12, 208, 238

The Resurgence of the West (Rosecrance) 226–7

The Return of History and the End of Dreams (Kagan) 193–4, 196

Reverse Course 60

Reviewing the Cold War (ed. Westad) 49n33, 59n10

Rhodes, Benjamin J. 150

Rice, Condoleezza 241

Rio Treaty of Inter-American Defence (1947) 86

Roosevelt, Franklin D. 11–12, 20–7, 30, 38, 40, 81, 102n7

Roosevelt, Theodore 5, 161–2, 169, 173, 195, 224–5

Rosecrance, Richard N. 226–8, 232

Rumsfeld, Donald H. 241

Russia

and Afghanistan 127, 131

future role 184, 186, 196, 206

and market economics 117–18, 145, 174–5, 221

and the Middle East 115, 139–40, 141, 143–4

NATO in Eastern Europe 118–21, 176, 201–2

as threat to the US 193–4, 208–9, 232–3, 261

and Ukraine 258–60

see also USSR

Sadat, Anwar 85, 96

Saddam Hussein 105, 114, 121, 128, 131, 205, 241–2

SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks) 93, 95

Sandars, Christopher T. 147n9

Sanger, David E. 261n3

Saudi Arabia 81, 109, 114, 125, 126, 140, 141

Savimbi, Jonas M. 100

Schroeder, Paul W. 128n12

Schurmann, Franz 23–5, 36n13

Second Chance (Brzezinski) 198, 204–6, 207

Second World War 15–20, 23, 54–5, 159n2, 191

Seward, William H. 5

The Shield of Achilles (Bobbitt) 240

Sisi, Abdel Fattah al- 141

Six-Day War 84

Slaughter, Anne-Marie 179–80, 196

Somoza García, Anastasio 87n14, 101–2

South Africa 98, 100

South America 69, 94, 101

see also Argentina; Brazil; Chile

space race 64

Spanish–American War 5

Special Providence (Mead) 159–61, 167–8

Spykman, Nicholas J. 13–16, 24, 52–3, 56

Stalin, Joseph 21, 30–1, 75

Steil, Benn 26n19, 57n8

Stephanson, Anders 6, 32, 33n8, 59n10, 164n8

Stimson, Henry L. 63n15

Strategic Defense Initiative 109–10

Strategic Vision (Brzezinski) 198, 206–7

Strauss, Leo 238, 247, 248–9

Stuxnet virus 139, 148

Suez Canal 83, 84

Syria

Baath party 84, 139–41

and Europe 145

future government 142

and Islamism 256, 242

post–Second World War 80

and Russia 85, 144

Taiwan 35, 93, 96, 97, 213

That Used to Be Us (Mandelbaum) 177

Third World

and the Cold War 46–7, 70, 83, 98–101, 107, 113, 115

debt 96

and market economics 117

see also Africa; Asia; Latin America; Middle East

Thompson, John A. 38n16, 49–50

Thompson, Nicholas 77n5, 87n14, 104n9

To Lead the World (ed. Leffler and Legro) 163

The Tragedy of American Diplomacy (Williams) 43–4

Trans-Atlantic Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA) 145–6, 228

Trans-Pacific Partnership 146

Treaty of Rome (1957) 59

Trotsky, Leon 108

Truman, Harry S.

and Asia 74–6

on the atomic bombs 40, 63

and capital 54

covert operations 87n14

and Israel 81

Truman Doctrine 29–30, 36–8, 42–3, 53

Tucker, Robert W. 49–50, 53, 128n12

Tunisia 141

Turkey 84, 131, 140–1, 206, 256

A Twilight Struggle (Kagan) 189

Twin Towers see 9/11

Ukraine 201, 258–60

United Nations

founding conference 26

and Russia 140, 144

Security Council 120, 121, 180

and US power 76, 81, 99, 101, 115, 127, 239

Uruguay 89

USSR

and Africa 99–101

and China 93–4, 213

collapse 110–11, 113, 117–18, 238, 248

economy 58, 108–10

Ermattungskrieg 32, 34–6, 65–7, 110

foreign policy 30–1, 106–7

and Korea 75

and the Middle East 81, 82, 83, 85, 104, 106

nuclear weapons 46, 63–4, 110

post–Second World War role 16–17, 20, 25–7

repression 103n8

see also Cold War; Russia

Vietnam 44, 76–8, 92, 93–4, 97, 160n2

Volcker, Paul A. 96

Wall Street Crash see the Depression

Walt, Stephen M. 253

Waltz, Kenneth N. 215

War on Terror 127–32, 133–6, 191, 204, 242–3, 246

Washington Consensus 117

Watkins, Susan 115n2

We Now Know (Gaddis) 45–6

The Weekly Standard (journal) 240, 252

Westad, Odd Arne 47–8, 49n33

White, Harry Dexter 25n19

Whitman, Walt 6

Williams, William Appleman 43–4, 48n33

Wilson, Woodrow 8–9, 10, 20, 66, 161–2, 169, 173

Wisconsin School 43–4, 48n33, 49–50

Witte, Ludo De 99n5

Wolfowitz, Paul D. 241

Woodring, Harry H. 12

The World America Made (Kagan) 194–5, 196

World Trade Center see 9/11

Wright, C. Ben 35n10

WTO (World Trade Organization) 116, 145, 182, 205

Yeltsin, Boris N. 118, 119, 120, 131

Yemen 84, 113, 141

Yugoslavia 19, 120–1, 144

Zakaria, Fareed R. 164n8, 205n19

Zubok, Vladislav 109n12