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macroeconomics, 216–19
Maddison, Angus, 66n
Madison, James, 235
Madrid bombings (2004), 17
Magna Carta, 76
“magnetism,” 120–21
Mahbubani, Kishore, 88, 250
Malaysia, 3, 241
Malthus, Thomas, 69–70
“Malthusian trap,” 70n
“managerial imperialism,” 258
Manas Air Base, 54
manufacturing sector, 21, 22, 28, 43, 102, 104–5, 138, 148–49, 151, 153, 192–93, 202–3
Mao Zedong, 10, 101, 109, 117, 129, 135, 277
Marcos, Ferdinand, 109
markets:
capital, 21, 24–25, 48, 66–67, 70n, 93–94, 151–52, 200, 215–16, 219–22
domestic, 104–5, 111, 118, 130, 136, 144, 224, 241, 267, 283
emerging, 2, 21–22, 28, 40, 51, 53, 258, 281
financial, 7, 17, 72, 109–10, 219–22
free, 23–29, 57–58, 59–60, 106–8, 115, 217, 219, 242, 259, 282–83
global, see globalization
labor, 27–28, 69, 151, 202, 206, 225–26, 228–29
Marshall, George C., 254, 255, 256
Marshall Plan, 253–54
Marx, Karl, 85, 114–15
mass media, 9, 16, 27, 37, 95, 96, 154–55, 173, 209
mathematics, 208–12
Medicare, 219
Mediterranean Sea, 77, 239–43
Meiji Reformation, 84
memorization, 210–11
Menon, K. P. S., 163
Menon, V. K. Krishna, 164
meritocracies, 210–11
metric system, 223
Mexico, 2, 19, 53, 237, 252, 276
Microsoft, 104, 125–26
Middle Ages, 67, 76, 92
middle class, 22, 25, 115, 160, 226–32, 278
Middle East:
Arab population of, 77, 80
colonialism in, 162, 195
economies of, 74, 75
political situation of, 6–8, 118, 245, 246, 248n, 259, 263, 284
U.S. influence in, 8, 31, 52, 274
see also specific countries
military spending, 18, 105, 142, 198–99, 241, 262
Ming dynasty, 63, 73, 77
“mixed” economic model, 157
“mixed” regimes, 114
Mobutu Sese Seko, 109
modernization, 15–16, 35, 39, 74, 86–90, 93–94, 102, 109, 114–15, 126–27, 145–49, 151
Mogul Empire, 73, 75, 97
Mohan, C. Raja, 166
monarchy, 76, 123–24
Mondale, Walter, 251
Monier-Williams, Monier, 170
Montgomery, Bernard Law, 254
Morocco, 17, 209, 239–41, 278
Morocco bombings (2003), 17
Morris, James, 184
mortgages, 42, 46, 85, 152, 217, 222, 225
Mountbatten, Louis, 36, 164
Moynihan, Daniel Patrick, 74
MRI machines, 30
Mugabe, Robert, 109, 131
multiculturalism, 65
multilateralism, 246–55, 267–69
multipolar order, 1–5, 39, 52–53, 233, 241–42, 243–50, 266–69, 274
multi-spindle wheel, 72
Mumbai, 150, 173, 180, 210
Mumtaz Mahal, 70–71
Mussolini, Benito, 195
Mutual Assured Destruction, 140
Naím, Moisés, 130
Nanjing, 63
nanotechnology, 200–202, 215
Napoleon I, Emperor of France, 100
Nasser, Gamal Abdul, 84–85
National Academy of Sciences, 204
national debt, 46–49, 130, 138, 140, 217–19, 241–42
National Debt Clock, 46
nationalism, 34–42, 43, 76, 101, 134–35, 143, 145, 158–59, 180–83, 192, 274
nationalization, 197
national saving, 218
National Science Foundation, 205
nation-states, 34–42, 75
natural gas, 31, 129, 260
natural resources, 6, 30–34, 38, 65, 103–4, 115, 129–32, 232, 260
Nazism, 10, 25, 36–37, 143, 266, 275, 276
Needham, Joseph, 122–23
Nehru, Jawaharlal, 84, 86, 154, 156, 162–65, 169, 173, 177, 181
neoconservatives, 141–42, 247, 253
Netherlands, 67, 72, 79, 80, 188, 209
New Delhi, India, 150
Newsweek, 96, 227
New World, 79, 80, 187
“new world order,” 38
New York, N.Y., 48, 221, 224
New York Times, 163, 188, 203, 258
Nigeria, 60, 86, 98, 130, 149
Nixon, Richard M., 233, 284
Nobel Prize, 139, 210, 215
nonaccelerating inflation rate of unemployment (NAIRU), 217
nonalignment policy, 163–66, 177
nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), 5, 34, 39, 57, 168, 173, 272
North Africa, 12–13, 20, 80
North America, 78–79
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 13, 173, 247, 268
North Korea, 6, 19, 20, 141, 175, 235–36, 246, 259, 264
Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (1968), 174–78, 265
nuclear weapons, 6, 17, 29, 34, 96, 140, 142, 167, 174–78, 249, 251, 256, 259–60, 265, 273, 275
Nunn, Sam, 265
Nye, Joseph, 121
Obama, Barack, xii, 139, 178, 251, 256, 259, 266, 279
Odah, Salman al-, 14–15
Oglethorpe University, 276
oil, 6, 30–32, 38, 115, 232–33, 260
Olympic Games, 5, 103, 105, 137, 187
Omdurman, Battle