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Civil Rights Acts (1964; 1968)
 
civil war
 
in anocracies
 
costs of
 
and decolonization
 
and democracy
 
in developing world
 
and education
 
and ethnicity
 
and great powers
 
and ideology
 
and inept government
 
and national borders
 
negotiated settlements
 
and poverty
 
and psychopathy
 
and religion
 
and trade
 
and young men
 
Civil War, U.S.
 
death toll in
 
Clark, Gregory
 
clash of civilizations
 
Clauset, Aaron
 
Clausewitz, Karl von
 
Clay, Henry
 
Cleaver, Eldridge
 
Cleveland, Robert Nasruk
 
climate change
 
Clinton, Bill
 
Clockwork Orange, A
(film)
 
cluster illusion
 
Cobden, Richard
 
Cochran, Gregory
 
Cockburn, J. S.
 
code of the streets;
see also
honor
 
cognitive dissonance
 
cognitive illusions, xxiii;
see also
availability heuristic; cluster illusion; conjunction fallacy; loss aversion; overconfidence; positive illusions; sunk-cost fallacy
 
Cohen, Dov
 
Cohen, Jonathan
 
Cold War
 
end of
 
interstate wars in Europe
 
mutually assured destruction
 
proxy wars
 
superpower confrontations
 
Cole, Michael
 
Collier, Paul
 
Collins, Randall
 
Colombia
 
Columbine High School
 
commerce:
 
Christian ideology vs.
 
cooperation in
 
and genocide
 
growth of
 
international trade
 
and money
 
protectionist tariffs
 
and transportation
 
see also
gentle commerce
 
common knowledge
 
communality,
see
Community, ethic of
 
communal violence,
see
intercommunal conflict
 
communism
 
collapse of
 
and genocide
 
ideology of
 
Community, ethic of
 
compartmentalization, moral
 
compassion
see also
empathy; sympathy
 
complex systems, science of
 
Concert of Europe
 
concrete operations, Piagetian stage
 
Conflict Catalog
 
conformity
 
Congo, Democratic Republic of (DRC)
 
Congo Free State
 
conjunction fallacy
 
conquest
 
Conquest, Robert
 
Conrad, Joseph
 
conscience;
see also
moral sense
 
conscientious objection
 
consciousness
 
conscription,
see
military conscription
 
conservatism
 
and intelligence
 
and morality
 
and treatment of animals
 
see also
liberalism, and conservatism
 
Constantine, Emperor
 
Constitution, U.S.:
 
amendments:
 
Second
 
Eighth
 
Thirteenth
 
Nineteenth
 
design of
 
and gentle commerce
 
Cool Hand Luke
(film)
 
Cooney, Mark
 
cooperation
 
in commerce
 
evolution of
 
and intelligence
 
norms of
 
in Prisoner’s Dilemma games
 
and Tragedy of the Commons
 
coordination games
 
corporal punishment:
 
of children
 
and torture
 
Correlates of War Project
 
Cosmides, Leda
 
cosmopolitanism
 
and democracy
 
and end of Cold War
 
vs. genocidal ideologies
 
introduction to concept
 
and liberalism
 
vs. macho dominance
 
opposition to
 
and Rights Revolutions
 
costly signaling
 
counter-Enlightenment
 
Country Joe and the Fish
 
Coupland, Reginald
 
coups d’état
 
Courtwright, David
 
Cousins, Norman
 
Cramb, J. A.
 
crappy governments,
see
anocracy; praetorian regimes
 
critical theory
 
Crockett, Davy
 
Cromwell, Oliver
 
Cromwell, Thomas
 
Cronin, Audrey
 
crowds, madness of
 
crucifixion
 
cruelty-free
, use of term
 
Crusades
 
Cuban Missile Crisis
 
Curry, Ann
 
cuteness, and empathy
 
Czechoslovakia
 
 
Dahmer, Jeffrey
 
Daltrey, Roger
 
Daly, Martin
 
Damasio, Antonio
 
Dana, Richard Henry
 
Darfur
 
Darley, John
 
Darnton, Robert
 
Darrow, Clarence
 
Darwin, Charles
 
The Descent of Man
 
The Origin of Species
 
David, King
 
Davies, Norman
 
Dawkins, Richard
 
Dayak people of Borneo
 
Dean, Howard
 
Deary, Ian
 
death penalty,
see
capital punishment
 
debt bondage
 
Decety, Jean
 
Declaration of Independence, U.S.
 
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, France
 
decolonization
 
defense mechanisms
 
dehumanization
 
deism
 
delay of gratification;
see also
self-control
 
deMause, Lloyd
 
democide,
see
genocide
 
democracy
 
and capitalism
 
checks and balances in
 
and civil war
 
constitutional government
 
definition of
 
and education
 
emergence of
 
free speech in
 
and intelligence
 
and Kantian triangle
 
liberal
 
meanings of
 
and 1960s decivilization process
 
and peace
 
and reasoning
 
and Rights Revolutions
 
separation of powers in
 
spread of
 
and urbanization
 
Democratic Peace theory
 
demonization
 
den Boer, Andrea
 
dependency theorists
 
depression, medication for
 
Dershowitz, Alan
 
Descartes, René
 
despotism
 
DeSteno, David
 
deterrence
 
Deutch, John
 
Deuteronomy, Book of
 
developing world
 
anarchy in
 
childhood deaths in
 
democracy in
 
economic growth in
 
famine and disease
 
homicide rates in
 
liberation movements in
 
Marxism in
 
and plunder
 
and poverty
 
violence following decolonization
 
warfare in
 
Dhlakama, Afonso
 
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
(DSM)
 
Diamond, Jared
 
Dickens, Charles
 
Dictator game
 
dictatorships;
see also
autocracy; totalitarianism
 
Diderot, Denis

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