History Strikes Back: How States, Nations, and Conflicts Are Shaping the 21st Century

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Index 125 Abdullah (king of Jordan), 116 Absorption capacity, 70 Adenauer, Konrad, 105 Adversaries, talks with, 54, 80, 99–100, 118 Afghanistan, 80, 119 Agricultural policy, EU, 67, 104 Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud, 118 Aid, foreign, from Europe, 75 Airbus, 67 Albright, Madeleine, 9, 13 Algerian War, 89, 90 Alterglobalization movement, 35–38, 50 Amsterdam treaty (1997), 61 Annan, Kofi, 43–44 Anti-Americanism, in France, 98 Antiglobalization movement, 35 Arab countries: American leadership rejected by, 48; democratization of, 8; in French foreign policy, 98–99. See also Muslim world Arab-Israeli peace process. See Israeli-Palestinian peace process Arafat, Yasser, 100 Architecture, international, 49 Ariane, 67 Armenian genocide, 90 Artus, Patrick, 87 Asia, globalization in, 33 Asylum, 67 Atlanticists, 98, 104 Atonement, 89–90 Attali, Jacques, 42 Aubry, Martine, 106 Australia, 27, 48 Baker, James: under Bush (George H. W.), 5, 17; on Iran, 117; in Iraq Study Group, 30, 55, 100–01, 110; on Middle East peace, 55 Balkans, 71, 73 Bank failures, 51 Barcelona process, 73 Baverez, Nicolas, 87 Begin, Menachem, 8 Beilin, Yossi, 54 Berlin Wall, 18 Better world, building of: alterglobalization movement on, 35; prevention of clash of civilizations in, 53; pursuit of goal of, 31–32; states’ role in, 51, 56–57 Borders, European, 69–75 Boston Consulting Group, 28 Bretton Woods, 39 Une brève histoire de l’avenir (Attali), 42 Britain: under Brown (Gordon), 50, 72; on EU expansion, 73–74; French relations with, 94; protectionism in, 93 Brown, Gordon, 50, 72 Brzezinski, Zbigniew, 27, 57 Bush, George H. W.: in end of cold war, 1, 5–6; in Middle East peace process, 6, 17; realism in foreign policy of, 5–6, 8 Bush, George W.: on China, 28; 2006 congressional elections and, 27; European views on, 10, 17–18; failures of, understanding of, 30, 110; foreign policy of, 7, 18, 39, 112; and French foreign policy, 99, 104; international opinion of U.S. under, 49; on Iran, 119; Iraq Study Group and, 100–01, 110; in Middle East peace process, 55, 113; neoconservatism and, 9, 18; unilateralism of, 39 Camdessus, Michel, 87 Canada, 2, 15 Capitalism: alterglobalization movement on, 35–36; competition between forms of, 26; as dominant ideology, 32–34. See also Economy, market Carter, Jimmy, 13 Casualties, after cold war, 3 Central Europe, in EU, 61 CFSP. See Common Foreign and Security Policy Change, in election of Sarkozy, 102 Chemicals, health threats from, 24, 52 Cheney, Dick, 18 126 Index China: export growth in, 28; Group of 8 and, 50; international civil society and, 20; market economy in, 2; in multipolar world, 51; U.S. relations with, 28, 54, 80 Chirac, Jacques: in economic reform, 102–03; and EU constitution , 64; and EU expansion , 72; foreign policy of, 95, 98, 99; on Iraq war, 18; on multipolar world, 15, 51 Churchill, Winston, 10 Civilizations: categories of, 2; divisions between, 24–25 Civilizations, clash of, 24–25; criticism of concept, 2; denial of, 2, 71, 113; EU membership for Turkey and, 71; IsraeliPalestinian peace process and, 113, 117; within Muslim world, 24; between Muslim world and West, 24–25; prevention of, 53–54, 120–21 Civil society. See International civil society Clash of civilizations. See Civilizations , clash of A Clean Break (report), 8 Clemenceau, Georges, 9 Climate change, 23, 67 Clinton, Bill: on China, 28; expansion of U.S. power under, 6; foreign policy of, 6; on future of foreign policy, 110; in Middle East peace, 6, 54; neoconservatives on, 8 Clinton Global Initiative, 110 Clinton parameters, 54 Cohen, Elie, 87 Cohen, Samy, 56 Cold war: end of, 1–6, 109; neoconservatives in, 7–8 Collective responsibility, 89 Colonialism: and democratization, 120; French, 84, 89–90 Committee of Wise Persons, 74 Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), 77 Communities, resurgence of conflicts within, 17. See also International community Companies: corporate governance by, 36; in global economic regulation , 37 Competition, economic, in Europe, 37, 76 Confederation of nation-states, Europe as, 59–60 Conference on Environment and Development, UN, 46 Confidence, France’s loss of, 83–93 Conflicts: after cold war, Western expectations regarding, 3; ethnic and intercommunity, Index 127 resurgence of, 17; over ideologies , 32; Republican Party approach to, 7 Congressional elections, U.S.: of 1994, 6–7; of 2006, 27 Constitution, European, 19, 61–65, 96, 103 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, UNESCO, 53 Copenhagen criteria, 69–70 Corporate governance, 36 Council...