Berlusconi, Silvio, Italian Prime
Minister 187
A Better World for All(2000)183, 185
Beveridge, William 119
Bhattacharya, Buddhadeb 171
Bismarck, Prince Otto von92, 119
Blair, Tony, British Prime Minister 11
Commission for Africa 31
New Labour 166
and Third Way175, 178
and war in Iraq 207
and war on terrorism 210
Bleaney, Michael 142
Blinder, Alan 142
Bobbio, Norberto16, 179
Bolivia 189
Bonaparte, Napoleon91, 102
Bonchek, Mark 219
Bosnia and Herzegovina, left–right
self-placement 42
Brandt International Commission
(1980)131, 153
second report (1983) 154
Brandt, Willy, German Chancellor
131, 154
Brazil 189
capital markets 63
and global trade 160
and technological revolution 59
Brecher, Michael 228
Bretton Woods conference (1944) 124
Bretton Woods institutions128,
135, 181
and 1973 oil shock 144
consensus with UN agencies183 , 186
continuing divergence from UN
agencies 190 5
growing influence of 157
tolerance of inequalities 191
see alsoInternational Monetary
Fund; World Bank
British Empire101, 102
British Petroleum 211
Brown, Michael 6
Brundtland, Gro Harlem, World
Commission on Environment and
Development31, 214
Buchanan, James 142
Bulgaria, economy 63
Buonarroti, Filippo Michele 87
bureaucracy, and neoliberal business
model 148
Burke, Edmund, view of colonialism 102
Bush, George H. W., US President
167, 212
Bush, George W., US President11,
205, 212Callaghan, James, British Prime
Minister 146
Canada
identity politics203, 204
Liberal party 166
suffrage qualifications 88
see alsoQue ́bec
Cancu ́n Summit (1981) 153
capital markets 63
international financial system 73 4
capitalism
and collapse of communism 138
expansion of 84
industrial 95 7
presumed decline of 125
and socialism 95 101
socialist opposition to 99
as superior to communism 124 5
carbon markets 213
Carr, E. H. 93
Carter, Jimmy, US President 146
Castro, Fidel, Cuban President126 , 133
center, self-placement at 34 , 34, 42
Central Asia, poverty in 71
Central and Eastern Europe 48
democratization 53
left–right self-placement 38
see alsoEastern Europe
Chamberlain, Joseph 103
Cha ́vez,Hugo,VenezuelanPresident 189
child-rearing, left–right differences
20, 55
Chile123, 189
left–right self-placement 40
US intervention 127
China
economic inequality in 71
life expectancy 64
pollution 212
and technological revolution 59
Tiananmen Square 137
and USSR 125Index 237