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Israel, 97
Italy, 64 , 78 , 98

Jakobsen, Peter V., 117
Janos, Andrew C., 43 , 172 n 6
Japan, 19 , 112
Johnson, Lester W., 47

Katrina, 108
Kelleher, Cathrine M., 62
Keohane, Robert O., 107
Keynes, John Maynard, 24
k- group models, 180 n 8
Khrushchev, Nikita, 80
Kipling, Rudyard, 34
Korea, 43
Kosovo campaign, 75
Krostenko, Brian A., 50

Lake, David, 36 , 109
Larson, Deborah W., 5 , 22
Latin America, 20 , 21 , 45 , 48 , 50 , 53 , 100 ,
162. See also specific countries
Lebow, Richard Ned, 5 , 18
Liebenstein, Harvey, 20 , 21
Lukes, Steven, 25
Luttwak, Edward N., 65
luxury, 35 , 52 , 161 ; Big Science and, 54 ; con-
spicuous consumption and (see conspic-
uous consumption); luxury brands, 47 ;
scarcity and, 174 n 20 ; status symbols and,
47 (see also status symbols); utility and, 17

Machiavelli, Niccolo, 4
Mackie, Gary, 38 , 39 , 172 n 4 , 176 n 9
Mahan, Alfred T., 175 n 9
Malinowski, Bronislaw, 103
Manhattan Project, 130 , 136
marginal position, 27
market economy, 18
Marshall report, 84 – 85
Maslow hierarchy, 10
Mauss, Marcel, 107 , 108 , 110 , 181 n 14
Mearsheimer, John J., 179 n 29
medieval period, 49
Mercer, Jonathan, 103
Mexico, 48
middle powers, 113 , 114 , 115
military, 2 , 3 , 4 , 6 , 15 , 30. See also security,
national; weapons; and specific conflicts,
countries

Mills, C. Wright, 45 , 170 n 39

Mitrany, David, 114

Modelski, George, 57 , 63 , 66

Mohole Project, 126 , 131 , 134 – 35 , 183 n 3

moon landing, 12

Mora y Araujo, Manuel, 48

Morgenstern, Oskar, 19 , 20

Morgenthau, Hans J., 6 , 12 , 36 , 167 n 3

Moxnes, Erling, 15

Mullins, Alden F., Jr., 62

Murray, Bruce, 127

NASA, 124 , 128

naval power, 30 , 37 , 58 – 65 , 68 , 175 n 8. See

also aircraft carriers

neorealism, 171 n 50

notoriety, 162

nouveau riche, 45 , 170 n 39

nuclear weapons, 42 , 75 – 76 , 111. See also

weapons

OECD. See Organization for Economic

Co- operation and Development

Olympic Games, 11 , 12 , 15 , 169 n 27

O’Neill, Barry, 7 , 42 , 46

ontological security, 169 n 28

opera, 174 n 18

Organization for Economic Co- operation

and Development (OECD), 111 – 12

other- help. See prosociality

Pacific Northwest tribes, 15 – 16 , 27 , 110

Pakistan, 99

Paul, Harry W., 5 , 22

peacekeeping, 32 , 158 ; UN peacekeeping

and, 117

peacekeeping forces, 54

peacock metaphor, 14 , 21 – 22

pecuniary emulation: class and, 44 ; con-

spicuous consumption and, 33 (see also

conspicuous consumption); externali-

ties and, 22 – 24 ; invidious comparison

and, 22 – 23 , 163 (see also invidious com-

parison); status and, 27 , 28

Pereira, Antonio Carlos, 72

Peter Pan (Barrie), 160 – 61

Plisecka, Anna E., 41

Polanyi, Karl, 105

pork- barrel politics, 134 – 37 , 154

Porsche, Ferdinand, 172 n 1

positional goods, 8 , 28 , 52 – 53 , 168 n 20