Lafontaine, Oskar 177
Laı ̈di, Zaki9, 10
laissez-faire 96
effect of Great Depression on
109, 112
Lakoff, George20, 44
Lamy, Pascal, WTO 184
Laski, Harold 107
Latin America48, 51, 232
American domination of 101
anti-Americanism in 190
democratization in 51 3, 137
economic crisis 168
and indigenous rights 204
left–right self-placement40, 55
poverty in 71
revival of political left10, 189
trade growth 72
Latvia
economy 63
left–right self-placement 42
Le Pen, Jean-Marie 187
League of Nations67, 93, 104
Lebanon 201
left
anti-Americanism of 126 7
and environmentalism 210 11
and French republicanism15, 16
new objectives for 9
and North–South interdependence
131 5
opposition to armies and militarism
93
political revival10, 166 9
renewal of (1990s) 169 75
self-placement at 34 , 34
and socialism 15 17
and Third Way 175
and threat of terrorism 208 10
values of 44
view of globalization57, 69 80
view of human nature22, 44, 57
view of imperialism 104 5
view of war 90
see alsocommunism; socialism
left and right 8 19
approaches to poverty 2 3
and authoritarianism 24 6
as contrasting worldviews10, 19 26
and cultural difference 29 30
and debate on globalization 81 2
as enduring global dichotomy3, 27,
187 95, 1967, 198 9
in French National Assembly 14
ideological debate 233 5
incorporation of new issues within
27 8
in international relations theory
222 9
moral nature of debate 20 1
and multiculturalism 202 3
and nationalisms 201 2
origins of 12 14, 83, 106
and problem of definition 10 11
reality and persistence of 11 12,
231 3
and state economic intervention
112, 115
as too simplistic 26 7
as unfashionable 2
values 55
and war and peace84, 89 95
and welfare state120, 151 2
see alsoleft; right
Leibfried, Stephan 108
Leijonhufvud, Alex 142
Lenin, V. I. 11
economic planning 111
on imperialism 103
Leroy-Beaulieu, Paul 104
Levellers 85
liberal democracy
and right 17 18
triumph of 137
liberalism
and authoritarianism25, 25
and capitalism 124
and equality 144
in international relations theory
223, 225
postwar consensus 108 9
rise of 83
see alsoneo-liberalism
life expectancy 64
Lindblom, Charles215, 217, 230
Usable Knowledge 235
Lithuania, economy 63
Locke, John21, 96
Louverture, Toussaint 102
Lowi, Theodore221, 229244 Index