A68 IndexUnited States (cont.)
South Africa and, 158
stratification of power and, 119
as superpower, 45
Syria and, 120
Taiwan and, 137
total wars and, 266
transnational crime and, 252
UN Security Council and, 216
World War I and, 38
World War II and, 43–44
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
(UN), 367, 383–84
universal jurisdiction, 244
Universal Periodic Review (UN), 373,
376
Universal Postal Service, 227
UNTAG (UN Transition Assistance
Group), 221
untouchable (dalit), 17
Uruguay, 375
Uruguay Round, 329–30
USSR, see Soviet Union
Uzbek ist a n, 174, 249“vanguard of the proletariat,” 45
Vatican, 140, 190–91
Venezuela, 181, 238, 252, 347
Versailles, Congress of, 366
Versailles, Treaty of, 39
Victor, David, 405
Vienna, Congress of, 28–31, 365
Vienna Convention of the Law of
Treaties, 242
Vienna Conventions on Consular
Relations, 242
Vienna Conventions on Diplomatic
Relations, 242
Vienna Declaration, 364
Viet Minh, 51
Vietnam
“boat people” fleeing, 203
civil war and, 52–54, 274
Cold War and, 48, 52–54
communism and, 49, 51foreign policy elites and, 189–93
health and disease issues, 420
human rights and, 378
lessons of Vietnam War, 7–8, 149
Spratly Islands and, 66, 135
TPP and, 337
World War II and, 43
WTO and, 330
Vietnamization policy, 7
Vietnam Veterans of America
Foundation, 253
violent conflict, 96
voices of “the others,” 17, 18Walker, Stephen, 189
Wallachia, see Romania
Wa lma r t, 325
Walt, Stephen, 6, 100
Waltz, Kenneth N.
on bipolarity, 112–13
on international system, 275, 439
on levels of analysis, 74
on neorealism, 80–81
on nuclear proliferation, 279
Walzer, Michael, 291
Wang Jing, 354
War and Change in World Politics
(Gilpin), 82, 114
war and strife. see also civil wars; specific
wars
about, 263–64
arms control and disarmament,
307–10
Augustine on, 78
behavioralist view of, 12
categorizing, 264–70
causes of, 270–77
collateral damage, 260–61
constructivist view of, 268
conventional war, 277–78
Correlates of War project, 12–13,
114
definition of, 263
diversionary war, 274
drone strikes and, 260–61, 293–95ESSIR7_CH15_Index_A29-A74_11P.indd 68 6/14/16 10:14 AM