INDEX

actors
local ....................................... 42
non-state .....38, 39, 42, 43, 46-48
outside .................................... 47
predatory ................................ 40
state ....................... 38-40, 43, 46
territorial ................................ 38
al Qaeda ................................. 42, 43
al Shabaab .............................. 42, 44
anarchical ............................... 52, 60
Arctic provinces ........................ 103
attitude towards conflict ....... 108
geopolitical performance ...... 107
regime type .......................... 108
trade status ........................... 108
Arctic region ...... 100, 102, 119-122
borders ................................. 102
geography and intraregional
conflict ............................. 117
spatial differentiation ........... 105
zone of conflict .................... 117
zone of consensus ................ 117
ASEAN ..... 44, 62, 74, 93, 172, 173,
179, 246, 250
Asian Alliance ............................. 94
Australia ..... 42, 43, 44, 45, 125, 132
Axis
neomedieval character............ 41
state-strength ..................... 41, 42
balancing ..................................... 53
Balkan "black hole" ................... 198
Bangladesh ................. 42, 43, 45, 46
Basel Committee on
Banking Supervision ............ 195
Beijing Olympics ...................... 262
Bourdieu, Pierre ........................ 127
Brazil .. 17, 18, 20-24, 27, 29, 30, 31,
33, 34, 37, 85, 86, 88, 90, 91, 93,
191, 195, 202, 256

BRIC .............. 17, 27, 28, 29, 36, 37

BRICS .................... 17-37, 202, 217

functional coalition ................. 22

Brzezinski, Zbigniew ...................... 8

Bull, Hedley ................................. 39

Burma ........................ 42, 43, 44, 47

Bush ........................... 225, 226, 229

Cerny, Philip ............................... 40

CIS .... 194, 202-205, 210, 212, 213,

215, 216, 218, 219

climate change ........................... 192

Cline, Ray S. .................... 84, 88, 95

Critical Mass .......................... 85

Clinton ............................... 225, 229

cluster analysis ........................... 107

geopolitical clustering .......... 116

Cohen, Ariel ................................ 94

cohesive leviathan ..................... 129

Comoros .......................... 42, 43, 47

conflict ................................... 41, 48

conventional power ..................... 87

cooperation ............................ 40, 44

cooperative ..............see cooperation

country ................................ see state

crisis .......................................... 184

cultural and historical

aspects .............................. 196

institutional fragmentation ... 196

security crisis ........................ 188

Cross-Strait relations ................. 146

Csurgai, Guyla .......................... 106

defense ........................ 54, 55, 57-59

denuclearization ................. 223, 231

Djibouti ............................ 41, 43, 46

Durable Disorder ............. 40, 41, 47

Dussouy, Gerard ....................... 106

East Asia ............... 51, 52, 56, 58, 59

Eurasian Monetary Union .......... 216

Eurasian regional integration