Chirac, Jacques, French President 187
cholera epidemic (1832) 98
Chre ́tien, Jean, Canadian Prime
Minister 166
Churchill, Winston, British Prime
Minister 11
cities, collective rule in 84
civil liberties67, 209
civil service, and business model 148
civil society
global organizations 173
rise of80, 172
civilizations
clash of 29 30
and left–right self-placement 47 54
Clausewitz, Carl von 92
climate change 212
Clinton, Bill, US President20, 166
and Third Way 175
Cobden, Richard, MP 93
Cold War
and anti-Americanism of Western
left 126 7
arms race123, 134
and East-West divide 122 7
ideological conflict 107
collective bargaining110, 116, 117
Colombia, left–right self-placement 40
colonialism84, 101 6
and anti-colonialism 123
justifications for 102 4
as moral duty 103
nuances of opposition to 101 2
see alsodecolonization
colors, as political metaphors 14
Commission for Africa 31
Commonwealth of Independent States
(CIS) 137
communications technology
impact of56, 58
inequality of access to 70
communism 22
authoritarianism of 25
collapse of62, 137, 152, 199
economic model 110
right-wing reaction to 100
rise of 99 100
as threat to “free world”122, 123
and Western toleration of right-wing
dictatorships 123
Comparative Study of Electoral
Systems 34n
conservatism 19
see alsoright
Conservative Party (UK)
and Beveridge project 120
and monetarism 145
see alsoThatcher, Margaret
constructivism8, 232
in international relations theory223,
226, 226 7
consumption 170
statistics 75
Corn Laws, repeal of (1846) 97
corporations
and environmentalism 211
and Global Compact 185
multinational 161
transnational 73
Correa, Rafael, Ecuadorean President
189
corruption, in developing countries
135, 153
Cox, Robert226, 235
Croatia, left–right self-placement
42
Cuba 126
US intervention 127
cultural attitudes
divisions between 54 5
and political inclination 23 4,
47 54
culture, and identity politics 200
Czech Republic
economy 63
left–right self-placement 40
Czechoslovakia
and fall of Berlin Wall 137
revolution (1968) 126
da Silva, Luiz Ina ́cio “Lula”, Brazilian
President 189
D’Alema, Massimo, Italian Prime
Minister, and Third Way 175
Danton, Georges 102
Darwin, Charles 104
debate
as basis of global politics 3 4,
233 5
and problems of definition 6 8
238 Index