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The End of Power

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  INDEX

  Abdulmutallab, Umar, 111

  ABN Amro bank, 189–190

  Abortion, 25

  Abu Dhabi, 214

  Accountability, 100, 103, 104, 163, 228, 238, 239

  Activism, 2, 12, 13, 16, 51, 92, 98, 100, 102, 135, 161, 205, 230, 240, 241, 242

  Acumen Fund, 208–209, 211

  Adam, Georgina, 149

  Adams, Henry, 37

  Addis Ababa, 147

  Advertising, 10, 24, 25, 29, 48, 66, 153, 169, 170, 174–175, 178, 179, 181, 212, 213

  political, 33, 242

  AEG, 37

  Afghanistan, 5, 29, 110, 111, 113, 117, 120, 126, 132, 142, 143, 155, 186

  AFL-CIO, 200, 201, 202

  Africa, 55, 60, 66, 81, 121, 156, 178, 196, 249, 254

  African Union, 143, 147

  See also North Africa; South Africa; under China; individual countries

  “Age of Conformity” (Howe), 46

  “Age of Volatility,” 76

  Agriculture, 39, 56, 157

  Ahrens, Frank, 187

  AIG. See American International Group

  Airbus, 27, 30, 169

  Aircraft, 27, 30–31, 111, 116, 131, 171, 175. See also Drones

  AK-47, 29, 110

  Akhouri, Priyanka, 185

  Albright, Madeline, 153

  Alexander the Great, 28

  Algeria, 114

  Alienation, 18, 47, 231–232

  Al Jazeera, 134, 149, 199

  Allen, John L., 198

  Alliances, 139, 141–142, 145, 155–156, 203, 225. See also Coalitions

  Alliance Française, 154

  Al Qaeda, 107, 114, 116, 122, 131, 134, 222, 236, 240

  franchise model of, 127–128

  Amaranth fund, 190

  Ambani, Anil, 167

  American Express, 209

  American Federation of Labor, 201

  American International Group (AIG), 49, 162

  American National Election Studies group, 68

  Anarchy, 135, 140, 224, 226, 228

  Angel investors, 61, 174

  Angle, Sharron, 79

  Anheuser-Busch, 8, 165, 187

  Anholt GfK Roper Nation Brands index, 149

  Ansell, Christopher, 95

  Antigua and Barbuda, 155

  Apostle Estevam, 196

  Apple, 32–33, 44, 48, 213

  aQuantive, 174–175

  Arab-Americans, 59

  Arab countries, 147, 249

  Arab Spring, 6, 12, 14, 28, 57, 75, 80, 229, 242

  Arbour, Louise, 99

  Arcelor Mittal, 7, 146, 187

  “Are American Unions History?” (Meyerson), 200

  Archer Daniel Midlands, 33

  Are We Rome? (Murphy), 132

  Argentina, 33, 83, 97, 147

  Aristotle, 15

  Aristovnik, Aleksander 97

  Arms sales, 144

  Armstrong, Lance, 208

  Arquilla, John, 108, 117, 125

  Arreguín-Toft, Ivan, 113, 114

  Arsenault, Amelia H. 212

  Art, 9, 18, 149, 154

  Artillery, 42, 116

  Asia, 55, 56, 60, 66, 81, 149

  Asian economies, 132

  Aspirations, 54, 69, 70, 85, 103, 111, 133, 203

  Assange, Julian, 101, 130

  AT&T, 32–33, 36

  Attitudes, 54, 67, 69. See also Mentality revolution

  Australia, 86, 129, 130, 133, 178, 180

  Austria, 63, 92

  Authoritarianism, 12, 49, 67, 77, 84, 85, 95, 102, 103, 106, 132, 197, 204, 219, 221, 254. See also Dictators; Tyranny

  Authority, 16, 26, 40, 58, 66, 140, 214, 220

  Autocracies, 83(fig.), 84, 85, 103, 250

  Automobile industry, 166, 167, 204–205

  Aykut, Dilek 186

  Azerbaijan, 124

  Baby boomers, 66, 67

  Bagdikian, Ben 212

  Bahrain, 103

  Baier, Scott L. 173

  Bailouts, 13, 49, 70, 162, 184, 190

  Balance of power, 27, 108, 139, 202

  Bali, 114

  Balkans, 51, 121, 186

  Banana republics, 98, 146

  Bangalore, 180

  Bangladesh, 33, 85

  Bankruptcy, 23, 31, 184, 224

  Banks, 7, 21, 48, 49, 51, 66, 68, 70, 145, 155, 160–162, 165, 167–168, 184, 189–190, 191, 218–219, 236

  military-owned, 98

  Barclays Plc, 160, 161, 162, 190, 219

  Bargaining, 27

  Baribeau, Simone, 187

  Barriers to entry, 31–34, 44, 50, 168, 171, 172, 173, 184, 187, 198. See also Power: barriers concerning

  Barrionuevo, Alexei 196

  BASF, 37

  BATS Exchange, 188

  Bauer, P. T., 210

  Bayer, 37

  BBC, 193

  Beck, Glenn, 202

  Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, 2

  Beijing, 100, 133,

  Belarus, 219

  Belgium, 89, 96

  Ben Ali, Zine al-Abidine, 95

  Ben Gharbia, Sami, 100

  Berger, Peter, 199

  Bergstrand, Jeffrey H., 173

  Berlin Wall, 52, 81
/>   Berlusconi, Silvio, 50, 95, 99

  Berners-Lee, Tim, 53

  Bertelsmann, 212

  Bharti Airtel, 178, 186

  “Big Five,” 159, 160

  Big Give, 209

  Big Pharma, 181

  Big Three, 159, 214

  Billionaires, 50, 165, 167, 187, 206, 218

  Bimbo, 146

  bin Laden, Osama, 115, 127, 131, 232, 236

  Bishop Sonia, 196

  Bismarck, Otto von, 38

  Black, James Jr., 2–4

  Blacks, 67

  Blake, Aaron, 95

  Blogs, 77, 79, 80, 100, 102, 117, 153, 154, 214, 215

  Bloomberg News, 167, 188

  Boeing, 27, 30, 169

  Bolivar, Simon, 232

  Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA), 155

  Bolivia, 94, 96, 143, 152, 194, 199, 209

  Bollywood, 148

  Bonaparte, Napoleon, 36

  Bono, 8, 207, 211

  Bonuses, 48

  Booze & Company, 164

  Borders, 64, 73, 115, 135, 157, 172

  Bound to Lead: The Changing Nature of American Power (Nye), 137

  “Bottom Billion,” 56

  Bowley, Graham, 188

  Brachman, Jarret, 121

  BP company, 7, 160

  Brain circulation, 61

  Brain drain, 61, 181

  Brands, 7, 10, 146, 149, 166–168, 169, 172, 174, 178–180, 186, 240

  Branson, Richard, 161

  Brasilia, 6

  Brazil, 8–9, 13, 14, 55, 83, 90, 97, 106, 133, 145, 146, 159, 165, 177, 186, 187, 194, 195, 235

  elections in, 78–79, 196

  religion in, 9, 196, 197

  Bremmer, Ian, 235

  BRICS group of emerging powers, 133, 155

  Bridgewater Associates, 189, 190

  British Council, 154

  British National Party, 95

  Brito, Carlos, 8

  Brookings Institution, 56, 67

  Brooklyn Bridge 39

  Brownstein, Ron, 76

  Brunei, 85

  Brzezinski, Zbigniew, 58, 131, 235

  Budweiser, 8, 187,

  Buffet, Warren, 8

  Bulgaria, 180

  Bunge, Jacob 188

  Burckhardt, Jacob, 229, 236

  Bureaucracies, 35, 38, 40–42, 43, 45, 46, 101, 119–120, 210, 211, 228

  exhaustion of, 52

  fundamental characteristics of, 40–41

  germ of modern, 36

  spread of bureaucratization, 42

  Burger King, 24

  Burma, 81

  Burt, Andrew 112, 113

 

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