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Roy, Raja Ram Mohan, 82–83, 86

Royal Navy, 186, 192, 195, 198

Rubin, Bob, 27

Rumsfeld, Donald, 59, 247

Russia:

Chinese relations of, 133, 142

czarist rule of, 73, 83–84, 191

economic reforms in, 107

economy of, 3, 29, 38, 54, 55, 107, 191

as emerging market, 258

foreign policy of, 6

geography of, 76

Georgia attacked by, 5

global influence of, 12, 53, 117, 257, 269

gross domestic product (GDP) of, 49, 191

industrialization of, 3

nuclear weapons of, 174, 176, 260, 265

oil resources of, 31

poverty in, 4

privatization in, 222

taxation in, 83–84

U.S. relations with, 54, 190, 241, 247, 260, 266, 269

Western influence in, 83–84, 98

see also Soviet Union

Russian Orthodox Church, 84

Sachs, Jeffrey, 24, 102

Sahney, Rajiv, 206

St. Mark’s Square, 98

St. Petersburg, 83

Salafist Group for Call and Combat (GSPC), 13

salwar kurta, 88

samba, 95

Sarbanes-Oxley Act (2002), 221

saris, 88

Sarkozy, Nicolas, 252–53

Saudi Arabia, 8, 11, 13–14, 32, 38, 55, 125, 168, 232–33, 248n, 264, 278

savings rate, 25, 50, 104, 137–39, 151–52, 216–19, 233, 283

Schumer, Chuck, 220–21

Schwab, Klaus, 147

Schwarz, Benjamin, 37

scientific research, 68–70, 98, 123, 192, 198, 199, 200–202, 208–12,

218–19

Securities and Exchange Commission, 48

Security Council, UN, 40, 101, 118, 131, 165n, 254, 272

September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, xi, 6, 10–11, 14, 16, 17, 246, 247, 265, 271, 272, 277, 278

service sector, 43, 148, 151, 230–31

Setser, Brad, 48, 55

Shah Jahan, 70

Shakespeare Wallah, 94

Shanghai, 34, 102–3, 109, 118, 150, 185, 211

Shanghai Stock Exchange, 109–10, 118

Shanmugaratnam, Tharman, 210–11

sharia, 16

Sharma, Ruchir, 179

Sherif, Abdul-Aziz el-, 15

Shia Muslims, 11–12, 263

shopping malls, 3

Shultz, George, 265

Sicily, 37

Sikhs, 180

Silicon Valley, 48, 215

Singapore, 3, 26, 32, 115–16, 132, 153, 185, 195–96, 200, 209, 210–12

Singh, Manmohan, 159, 160, 162, 169

Sino-African summit (2006), 130

Sky News, 96

Slaughter, Anne-Marie, 268

slavery, 79

Slovakia, 223

“smiley curve,” 203

socialism, 23, 24, 120, 144, 157, 161, 173, 178, 197

Social Security, 235

Socrates, 123

“soft power,” 121, 186, 259

Somalia, 185, 223

South Africa, 3, 4, 53, 98, 132, 188–90, 257, 258

South America, 78–79

South Asia, 21n, 52, 60

South China Sea, 133, 267

South Korea, 2, 20, 26, 40–41, 55, 84, 93, 95, 98, 104, 112, 115, 116, 132, 157, 171, 214

Soviet Union:

Afghanistan invaded by, 13, 101, 284

Chinese relations of, 133, 137, 142

collapse of, 9, 23–24, 53, 243, 244–45, 284

Communist regime of, 23–24, 120

Czechoslovakia invaded by (1968), 252

expansionism of, 10, 173, 256, 284

space program of, 71, 232

as superpower, 10, 101, 120, 173, 256, 266, 284

technology sector of, 71

U.S. relations with, 4, 8–9, 20, 38, 141, 143, 144, 163–66, 196, 199, 244–45, 247, 252, 254, 255–56, 274, 275, 277, 284

in World War II, 37

see also Russia

space program, 71, 232

Spain, 17, 116, 187, 239–41, 278, 280

Spanish language, 96

special interests, 234, 236

Speer, Albert, 103

Speer, Albert, Jr., 103

Spence, Jonathan, 124

Spiegel, 251

Spielberg, Steven, 105

Sputnik launching (1957), 232

Sri Lanka, 157, 165

Stalin, Joseph, 37, 196, 254, 275, 277

Starbucks, 105

state-directed capitalism, 32

state socialism, 144

“stealth reforms,” 160

steel, 103–4

Steingart, Gabor, 50

Stiglitz, Joseph, 139–40

stocks, 43, 109–10, 222

sub-Saharan Africa, 80

Sudan, 31, 38, 41, 131, 188, 273

Suez Canal, 20, 168, 186, 195

Suez Canal crisis (1956), 20, 168

suicide bombings, 14–15

Summers, Lawrence, 246

Sunni Muslims, 11–12, 263

Sun Yat-sen, 84, 86

Sun Zi, 143

Sweden, 24, 116, 200

Switzerland, 200

Syria, 6, 8, 157

Taiwan, 2, 20, 26, 35, 112, 116, 118, 119, 132, 135–36, 137, 141, 142, 165n, 214, 263, 264

Taiwan Strait, 20

Taj Mahal, 70–71

Talbot, Strobe, 107

Taliban, 13, 172, 241

Tamil Nadu, 180

tariffs, 40, 197

Tata Group, 148–49, 153

Tata Motors, 230

Nano of, 229–30

taxation, 40, 64, 72, 75, 83–84, 107–8, 223, 235, 236, 262

Tay, Simon, 259