Table of Contents
Foreword 9
A
Absolutism 15
Agrarianism 16
Al-Qaeda 16
American Revolution 18
Anarchism 22
Anti-Semitism 23
Apartheid 24
Apparatchik 26
Appeasement 26
Arab Spring 28
Aristocracy 30
Art and Politics 32
Autonomy 33
B
Berlin Wall 34
Bill of Rights <$$$> 37
Black Panther Party <$$$> 38
Bolshevism 41
Bourgeoisie 41
Bureaucracy 43
C
Capitalism 44
Christianity 46
Winston Churchill 50
City-State 52
Civil Disobedience 54
Civil Rights/Liberties 54
Civil Service 57
Civil War 58
Class 60
Collectivism 61
Colonialism 61
Communism 64
Communitarianism 68
Congress <$$$> 69
Conservatism 71
Consociation 71
Constitution<$$$> 72
Corruption 73
Cronyism 74
Culture 74
D
Daoism 76
Decolonization 77
Democracy 78
Democratic Party$$$ 82
Despotism 83
Dictatorship 84
Diplomacy 86
Direct Action 86
Divine Right 87
E
Ecology 88
Economy and Politics 90
Education 91
Elections 92
Elections (us) $$$ 93
Elites 94
Energy 95
Entrepreneurialism 95
Environmentalism 96
Espionage 97
European Union 97
Exceptionalism 100
F
Fascism 101
Federal Courts $$$ 103
Federalism 105
Feminism 106
Foreign Policy 107
Freedom 107
Free Market 108
French Revolution 109
Fundamentalism 113
G
Mahatma Gandhi 114
Globalization 117
Government 118
Green Movement 119
Gun control $$$ 119
H
Habeas Corpus 120
Health Care 121
Hereditary Principle 123
Hierarchy 123
Adolf Hitler 124
Homeland Security $$$ 125
House of Representatives $$$ 126
Human Rights 128
I
Immigration 129
Ideology and Politics 131
Imperialism 132
Inequality 133
International Law 133
International Relations 134
Iranian Revolution 135
J
Jacobins 137
Jesus 138
Justice 140
K
Martin Luther King, Jr. $$$ 141
L
Labor 143
Land 146
Law 147
League of Nations 148
Legalism 149
Legislature 149
Liberal Democracy 150
Liberalism 152
Libertarianism 154
Liberty 155
Abraham Lincoln $$$ 156
Lobbying 158
M
Magna Carta 160
Nelson Mandela 161
Mao Zedong 163
Marxism 166
Meritocracy 168
Military 168
Military-Industrial Complex 169
N
Nationalism 170
Napoleon Bonaparte 172
Nazism 175
Neoliberalism 176
Nepotism 178
Noninterventionism 178
Nonviolent Resistance 179
Nuclear Weapons 180
O
Oligarchy 182
October Revolution 184
P
Pacifism 186
Papacy 187
Parliament 187
Parliamentary Democracy 189
Paternalism 190
Perestroika 190
Postcolonialism 191
Postmodernism 191
Poverty 193
Presidency <$$$> 198
Privatization 198
Property 199
R
Racism 200
Radicalism 203
Redistribution 203
Reformation 204
Regicide 204
Republic 205
Republicanism 206
Republican Party <$$$> 206
Revolution 207
Rights 208
Franklin D. Roosevelt <$$$> 209
S
Senate (us) <$$$> 212
Science and Politics 214
Separation of Powers 216
Separatism 217
Slavery 217
Social Activism 219
Social Contract 221
Social Democracy 222
Social Groups 223
Social Insurance 223
Socialism 224
Sovereignty 226
Soviet Union 226
State 229
Statecraft 230
Strikes 231
Suffrage 233
Syndicalism 235
T
Taxation 236
Tea Party Movement $$$ 237
Terrorism 238
Totalitarianism 240
Trade 242
Trade Unions 243
Tyranny 244
U
United Nations 245
United States <$$$> 248
Utilitarianism 252
Utopianism 252
V
Violence 253
Virtue 255
W
War 256
George Washington <$$$> 257
Wealth 259
Welfare State 259
Working Class 261
World War I 262
World War ii 266
Z
Zionism 270
Endnotes 273
Visual References 275
Index 276
