The Post-American World: Release 2.0 (39 page)

see also Soviet Union

Russian Orthodox Church, 84

Sachs, Jeffrey, 24, 102

Sahney, Rajiv, 206

St. Mark’s Square, 98

St. Petersburg, 83

Salafist Group for Call and Combat (GSPC), 13

salwar kurta, 88

samba, 95

Sarbanes-Oxley Act (2002), 221

saris, 88

Sarkozy, Nicolas, 252–53

Saudi Arabia, 8, 11, 13–14, 32, 38, 55, 125, 168, 232–33, 248n, 264, 278

savings rate, 25, 50, 104, 137–39, 151–52, 216–19, 233, 283

Schumer, Chuck, 220–21

Schwab, Klaus, 147

Schwarz, Benjamin, 37

scientific research, 68–70, 98, 123, 192, 198, 199, 200–202, 208–12,

218–19

Securities and Exchange Commission, 48

Security Council, UN, 40, 101, 118, 131, 165n, 254, 272

September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, xi, 6, 10–11, 14, 16, 17, 246, 247, 265, 271, 272, 277, 278

service sector, 43, 148, 151, 230–31

Setser, Brad, 48, 55

Shah Jahan, 70

Shakespeare Wallah, 94

Shanghai, 34, 102–3, 109, 118, 150, 185, 211

Shanghai Stock Exchange, 109–10, 118

Shanmugaratnam, Tharman, 210–11

sharia, 16

Sharma, Ruchir, 179

Sherif, Abdul-Aziz el-, 15

Shia Muslims, 11–12, 263

shopping malls, 3

Shultz, George, 265

Sicily, 37

Sikhs, 180

Silicon Valley, 48, 215

Singapore, 3, 26, 32, 115–16, 132, 153, 185, 195–96, 200, 209, 210–12

Singh, Manmohan, 159, 160, 162, 169

Sino-African summit (2006), 130

Sky News, 96

Slaughter, Anne-Marie, 268

slavery, 79

Slovakia, 223

“smiley curve,” 203

socialism, 23, 24, 120, 144, 157, 161, 173, 178, 197

Social Security, 235

Socrates, 123

“soft power,” 121, 186, 259

Somalia, 185, 223

South Africa, 3, 4, 53, 98, 132, 188–90, 257, 258

South America, 78–79

South Asia, 21n, 52, 60

South China Sea, 133, 267

South Korea, 2, 20, 26, 40–41, 55, 84, 93, 95, 98, 104, 112, 115, 116, 132, 157, 171, 214

Soviet Union:

Afghanistan invaded by, 13, 101, 284

Chinese relations of, 133, 137, 142

collapse of, 9, 23–24, 53, 243, 244–45, 284

Communist regime of, 23–24, 120

Czechoslovakia invaded by (1968), 252

expansionism of, 10, 173, 256, 284

space program of, 71, 232

as superpower, 10, 101, 120, 173, 256, 266, 284

technology sector of, 71

U.S. relations with, 4, 8–9, 20, 38, 141, 143, 144, 163–66, 196, 199, 244–45, 247, 252, 254, 255–56, 274, 275, 277, 284

in World War II, 37

see also Russia

space program, 71, 232

Spain, 17, 116, 187, 239–41, 278, 280

Spanish language, 96

special interests, 234, 236

Speer, Albert, 103

Speer, Albert, Jr., 103

Spence, Jonathan, 124

Spiegel, 251

Spielberg, Steven, 105

Sputnik launching (1957), 232

Sri Lanka, 157, 165

Stalin, Joseph, 37, 196, 254, 275, 277

Starbucks, 105

state-directed capitalism, 32

state socialism, 144

“stealth reforms,” 160

steel, 103–4

Steingart, Gabor, 50

Stiglitz, Joseph, 139–40

stocks, 43, 109–10, 222

sub-Saharan Africa, 80

Sudan, 31, 38, 41, 131, 188, 273

Suez Canal, 20, 168, 186, 195

Suez Canal crisis (1956), 20, 168

suicide bombings, 14–15

Summers, Lawrence, 246

Sunni Muslims, 11–12, 263

Sun Yat-sen, 84, 86

Sun Zi, 143

Sweden, 24, 116, 200

Switzerland, 200

Syria, 6, 8, 157

Taiwan, 2, 20, 26, 35, 112, 116, 118, 119, 132, 135–36, 137, 141, 142, 165n, 214, 263, 264

Taiwan Strait, 20

Taj Mahal, 70–71

Talbot, Strobe, 107

Taliban, 13, 172, 241

Tamil Nadu, 180

tariffs, 40, 197

Tata Group, 148–49, 153

Tata Motors, 230

Nano of, 229–30

taxation, 40, 64, 72, 75, 83–84, 107–8, 223, 235, 236, 262

Tay, Simon, 259

technology, xiii, 9, 36, 43, 58, 60–61, 87, 92–93, 113, 135, 142, 148–49, 161, 198, 199, 200–212, 215, 217, 224–26, 228–32, 233

Tehran Conference (1943), 254

telecommunications industry, 161

television, 95, 96

tennis, 219–20

terrorism, 5, 6, 9, 10–19, 29, 34, 59, 241, 246, 247, 264, 269–70, 271, 272, 276–80

textile industry, 28

Thailand, 28, 132

Tharoor, Shashi, 165n

Thatcher, Margaret, 24, 197, 225, 244, 245

Third Plenum of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party (1978), 101–2

Third World, 10, 39, 102, 161, 177, 229, 232

Thirty Years’ War, 123

Thornton, John, 114

Tiananmen Square massacre (1989), 27, 137, 274–75

Tibet, 165

Time, 96

Times (London), 96

Times Higher Educational Supplement, 207

Tojo Hideki, 37

Tokyo, 91–92

totalitarianism, 112–17, 274

Toynbee, Arnold, 185, 197

Toyota, 225–26

trade balance, 21, 36, 57–58, 104–5, 216

traditional culture, 90–99

“treasure ships,” 62–63

treasury bills, U.S., 138

Treasury Department, U.S., 11

Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), 208–9

Truman, Harry S., 253, 255–56

Tsongas, Paul, 245

tsunami disaster (2005), 155

Tunisia, 209

Turkey, 4, 8, 17, 28–29, 84, 115, 273–74, 278

Turkey bombings (2003), 17

Twain, Mark, 271

Ukraine, 3, 260

unemployment, xi, xiii, 2, 227

unemployment rate, 212, 217, 226, 284

unilateralism, 59, 246–55, 264, 267–69

“uni-multipolarity,” 53

unipolar order, 1–5, 39, 52, 233, 240–42, 243–50, 266–67, 274–75

United Arab Emirates, 3

United Nations, 40, 41, 101, 118, 131, 157, 165n, 213, 240, 244, 250, 253, 254, 264, 268, 272

United Nations Human Development Index, 157

United Nations Population Division, 213

United States, 239–85

African policy of, 270–71, 273

alliances of, 243–50, 270–75

Asian policies of, 90, 241–42, 245, 259–60, 266, 267, 273–74, 280–81

automobile industry of, 192, 225, 230, 244

British Empire compared with, 185–86, 189–90, 197–99, 237, 261–63, 266, 268

British relations of, 168, 189, 194–97, 241, 254, 261, 274

budget deficits of, 139, 219, 241–42, 244

capitalism in, xi, 23, 28, 47, 60, 120, 200–202, 223–24

China compared with, 100, 103, 108, 193, 200, 242, 263

Chinese relations of, 100, 104, 105–6, 108, 118, 136–44, 176–77, 190, 236, 254, 260–61, 263, 264, 266, 269, 280–82

colonial period of, 65, 194

culture of, xi, 1–5, 36, 90–91, 93, 94, 204, 212–16, 223–26, 271–72, 275–85

democratic ideals of, 141, 167, 232–38, 264, 274–75

demographics of, 212–16

diversity of, 212–16, 278, 283–84

domestic market of, 224, 241, 267, 283

economy of, xi–xiii, 18, 20, 22, 25–26, 29, 43–49, 50, 56–57, 86–87, 118–19, 120, 140, 152, 182, 186, 191, 192, 197–99, 212–19, 233–34, 237–38, 241, 244, 245, 255, 275, 282–83

education in, 48, 58, 200, 204–12, 215, 218–19, 225, 233

elections in, 245, 251, 276, 278–79

energy needs of, 38, 232–33

engineers trained in, 204–8

European relations of, 244–45, 251–55, 273–74

family values in, 93

film industry of, 90, 94

financial markets of, 217, 219–22

foreign investment in, 219

foreign policy of, 8, 42, 52, 59, 125, 130, 131, 132, 140, 142–44, 167–68, 189–90, 223, 235–85

foreign trade of, 20–21, 36, 57–58, 104, 200, 216, 217, 280–83

French relations of, 251, 252–53

future development of, 1–5, 94–99, 199–203, 204, 239–85

German relations of, 244, 245, 251

global influence of, see post-American world

gross domestic product (GDP) of, 18, 104, 118–19, 191, 196, 198–99, 200, 207–8, 215, 217, 218, 219n, 255