THE SHIELD OF ACHILLES (161 page)

Read THE SHIELD OF ACHILLES Online

Authors: Philip Bobbitt

BOOK: THE SHIELD OF ACHILLES
12.38Mb size Format: txt, pdf, ePub

Bohlen, Charles (1904 – 1974): U.S. diplomat,
57
,
834

Bolingbroke, Viscount Henry St. John (1678 – 1751): British minister of state (1710 – 1714),
521 – 5
,
539
,
868

Bolshevik Revolution: 1917 – 1918 seizure of Russian government by communists,
19
,
24
,
27
,
31

Bonaparte, Napoleon,
see
Napoleon I

Bosnia,
7
,
37
,
161
,
252
,
269
,
271 – 2
,
283
,
288
,
297 – 8
,
311
,
313
,
316
,
325
,
365
,
411
,
413
,
415 – 18
,
420 – 50
,
452 – 66
,
468

Bossuet, Jacques-Benigne (1627 – 1704): French bishop and author,
117
,
121

Boutros-Ghali, Boutros (1922– ): Egyptian diplomat; U.N. secretary-general (1992 – 1996),
451
,
459
,
462

Bracken, Paul,
16
,
315

Branch Davidian case,
237

Bretton Woods (1944): international conference that established currency fixed exchange rates in the wake of World War II,
220 – 1
,
316

Brezhnev Doctrine (1968): asserted Soviet right to intervene in the domestic politics of Eastern European countries in order to prop up communist governments,
166

Brodie, Bernard (1910 – 1978): U.S. intellectual, author of
The Absolute Weapon
(1946),
12 – 14
,
80

Brzezinski, Zbigniew Kazimierz (1928– ):
U.S. National Security Advisor (1977 – 1981),
257 – 8
,
847
,
890

Buchanan, Patrick,
247
,
846

Bull, Hedley: Oxford professor of international relations,
246
,
357
,
513 – 4
,
846
,
853
,
864
,
867
,
890
,
900

Burke, Edmund (1729 – 1797): British politician; political philosopher,
177
,
334
,
503
,
852

Bush, George H. W. (1924- ):
U.S. president (1989 – 1993),
10
,
243
,
248
,
280
,
428
,
431
,
612
,
626 – 32
,
634
,
716
,
862
,
877
,
901

Bush, George W. (1946– ): U.S. president (2001– ),
222
,
253
,
276
,
278
,
288
,
340
,
667
,
814
,
845
,
858
,
859

Cable News Network (CNN),
304
,
428
,
430
,
442
,
697
,
782
,
862

Campbell, Susan,
439

caracole
: Spanish cavalry tactic,
99

Carrington, Lord (1919– ): British diplomat and politician;
British foreign secretary (1979 – 1982);
NATO secretary-general (1984 – 1988),
421
,
423
,
445
,
464

Carter Doctrine (1980): U.S. security guarantee to Persian Gulf oil producing states,
262

Carter, Ashton,
310
,
830
,
849 – 51
,
890

Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, 2nd Viscount (1769 – 1822): English diplomat and politician; represented Britain at Congress of Vienna (1814 – 1815),
160 – 73
,
179
,
184
,
200
,
385
,
544 – 5
,
548 – 9
,
551
,
553 – 6
,
559 – 62
,
575
,
612
,
676
,
841 – 2
,
869
,
889
,
894
,
900

Catalonia: region of Spain, including Barcelona,
120
,
470
,
750

Cavour, Camillo Benso, Conte di (1810 – 1861): Italian politician of
Risorgimento movement; prime minister of Sardinia (1852 – 1859, 1860 – 1861); first Italian prime minister (1861),
182 – 3
,
676

central deterrence: relationship between powers that protects a national homeland by targeting an adversary's homeland,
14
,
328
,
620

Chace, James,
256
,
847
,
891

Charles V (1500 – 1558): Habsburg ruler; king of Spain 1516 – 1556 as Charles I; Holy Roman Emperor (1519 – 1556),
103 – 6
,
109
,
126
,
128 – 9
,
155
,
279
,
487
,
489
,
491
,
494

Charles VIII (1470 – 1498): king of France (1483 – 1498),
80
,
96 – 7
,
107
,
346
,
486

Charter of Paris (1990): great power treaty recognizing free elections and democracy as the criteria for statehood and state responsibility for preserving human rights,
61
,
449
,
620
,
635 – 8
,
676
,
877

Charter of the United Nations (1945),
449
,
635
,
893

Chaumont, Treaty of (1814): restored the Bourbons in France to pre-war borders and perpetuated the defensive alliance between Britain, Austria, Russia, and Prussia,
160 – 1
,
164
,
166
,
545
,
556
,
564

Chetniks: Serbian partisans in World War II,
417 – 8
,
439

Chiang Kai-shek (1887 – 1975): Chinese general and politician;
national president of China (1928 – 1929);
president of Taiwan (1943 – 1949, 1950 – 1975),
51

China,
9
,
40 – 2
,
51 – 2
,
58 – 60
,
76
,
146
,
214
,
218
,
224
,
260 – 1
,
280
,
290 – 3
,
307
,
309
,
311 – 12
,
320
,
329
,
357
,
469 – 70
,
476
,
480
,
579
,
606
,
610
,
627
,
670
,
677
,
683 – 4
,
686 – 9
,
693
,
704
,
723 – 7
,
730
,
732 – 3
,
736 – 9
,
745
,
747 – 8
,
756
,
758 – 60
,
766
,
773
,
779 – 81
,
788
,
825
,
882

Christina (1626 – 1689): queen of Sweden during Peace of Westphalia,
503
,
866

Christopher, Warren Minor (1925– ): U.S. lawyer and diplomat; secretary of state (1993 – 1997),
423 – 4
,
444
,
455
,
457
,
460
,
464

Churchill, Winston Spencer (1874 – 1965): British politician and author; prime minister (1940 – 1945, 1951 – 1955);
British defense secretary (1940 – 1945, 1951 – 1952),
33
,
43
,
46
,
52
,
128
,
199
,
217
,
685
,
695
,
833
,
843
,
882
,
891
,
897

civil war,
6
,
19
,
22
,
24
,
29 – 31
,
39 – 40
,
51
,
59
,
89
,
106 – 8
,
122
,
177
,
188
,
196
,
203
,
205
,
216
,
271
,
290 – 1
,
335
,
359
,
368 – 9
,
375
,
380
,
406
,
424
,
431 – 4
,
438
,
449
,
466

Civitas Maxima
: Wolff's “Great State,” composed of what the individual state ought to and would agree to, as well as what states have actually agreed to either by custom or treaty,
530
,
534 – 5

Clark, Champ (1850 – 1921): U.S. politician, Speaker of the House (1911 – 1919),
372 – 3

Clausewitz, Karl von (1780 – 1831): German army officer and strategist; wrote
On War
(1833),
7
,
53
,
62 – 3
,
140
,
151
,
185
,
224
,
355
,
538 – 9
,
835
,
853
,
869
,
891

Clemenceau, Georges (1841 – 1929): French politician; prime minister (1906 – 1909, 1917 – 1920);
war minister (1917 – 1920),
216 – 17
,
391
,
400
,
402
,
406 – 7
,
409
,
576 – 7
,
608
,
844
,
872
,
891

Clinton, William Jefferson (1946– ):
U.S. president (1993 – 2001),
10
,
64
,
249
,
265
,
268–99
,
271 – 2
,
278
,
280
,
288
,
296 – 8
,
306
,
316 – 17
,
329
,
339 – 340
,
416
,
423 – 6
,
453 – 5
,
458
,
631
,
667
,
686
,
716
,
784
,
845
,
848
,
851
,
853
,
855
,
858
,
859
,
862
,
886
,
901

CNN effect,
428
,
697

coalitions of the willing,
268
,
310

Cohen, Eliot,
305
,
307
,
849 – 50
,
852

Colbert, Jean Baptiste (1619 – 1683):
French statesman;
made important treasury reforms, established French navy,
121
,
123 – 4

Cold War,
9
,
13
,
15
,
19
,
24
,
43 – 4
,
46
,
48 – 52
,
62 – 3
,
110
,
161
,
215
,
249
,
251
,
253
,
262
,
268
,
270 – 1
,
275 – 7
,
292 – 3
,
298
,
307
,
310
,
321
,
328 – 9
,
335
,
420
,
475
,
626
,
629
,
640
,
649
,
655
,
662
,
681
,
683
,
698
,
701 – 2
,
717
,
733
,
761
,
778
,
786

collective goods: things of benefit to a society as a whole;
to the society of states, such things as mutual security, public health, stable environmental and economic relations,
283
,
293
,
305
,
309 – 10
,
328
,
337
,
814
,
821

collective security: a system wherein a state pledges its national forces to defend the peace of an international (though not usually a universal) order,
155
,
161
,
163
,
168 – 9
,
172
,
183
,
200
,
233
,
253 – 4
,
257 – 8
,
260
,
262
,
265
,
271
,
279
,
286 – 7
,
360
,
383
,
475
,
477
,
504
,
517
,
523
,
525
,
540
,
546
,
551

communism,
9
,
24
,
27
,
29
,
31
,
37
,
39
,
42 – 3
,
56 – 9
,
215
,
244
,
260
,
332
,
379
,
384
,
446
,
571
,
607 – 8
,
610 – 12
,
614
,
622 – 3
,
626
,
630
,
655
,
673
,
675
,
678
,
698
,
702
,
781
,
875 – 6

Other books

Hells Gate: Santino by Crymsyn Hart
Pop Star Princess by Janey Louise Jones
Hush by Amarinda Jones
Who You Least Expect by Lydia Rowan
Cassada by James Salter
The Interview by Weule, Eric
The Only Poet by Rebecca West
Crampton by Thomas Ligotti, Brandon Trenz