Алистер Смит - The Dictator's Handbook - Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics

Inheritance

Inner circles. See also Cronies

Institutional issues

Interchangeables

shareholders as

See also Selectorates, nominal/real

Interest rates

International community

International Criminal Court

International law

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

International Olympic Committee (IOC)

International relations

International Whaling Commission (IWC)

Internet

IOC. See International Olympic Committee

Iran

population

Iraq

Iraq War

Republican Guards in

See also First Gulf War; Hussein, Saddam

Ireland

IRS. See United States: Internal Revenue Service

Israel

Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty (1979)

gross domestic product

See also Six Day War

Italy

It’s Our Turn to Eat (Wrong)

Ivory Coast. See also Côte d’Ivoire

IWC. See International Whaling Commission

Jacobo, Teresa

Japan

Jensen, Jeffrey

Jerome (Saint)

Jews (Ethiopian)

Jihad

John (English king)

Johnson, Dave

Johnson, Lyndon

Johnson, Prince

Jordan

Judiciary

Julius Caesar

Justice

Kabila, Laurent

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

Kaufman, Daniel

Kennedy, John F.

Kennedy family

Kenya

Kenyatta, Jomo

Kerensky, Alexander

Kerry-Lugar bill (2009)

Keynesian policies

Khodorkovsky, Mikhail

Khomeini, Ruhollah (Ayatollah)

Khrushchev, Nikita

Kibaki, Mwai

Kim Il Sung

Kim Jong Il

Kim Jong Un

Kleptocracy

Kuchma, Leonid

Kufuor, John

Kurds

Kuwait

Kwei, J. Amartey

Kyrgyzstan

Labor force

Laniel, Joseph

Lay, Kenneth

Leaders

as backsliding

benevolent

and consequences of war

dying( see also Leaders: sick/decrepit)

encouraged to step aside

and liberalization( see also Liberalization, economic/political)

new

and nominal/real selectorates and winning coalitions

as not leading unilaterally

promises of

replacing

risk of ouster by type of government

rules for ( see Rules: rules to rule by)

self-interest of

sick/decrepit( see also Leaders: dying)

successful

survival of( see also Power, getting and keeping)

and taxation

tenure of

third-world leaders

of universities

See also Autocrats/autocracies; Incumbents; Loyalty; Power, getting and keeping; Succession issues

Lee Kwan Yew

Lend-Lease program

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Le Tellier, Michel

Liberalization, economic/political

Liberals

Liberia

Liberian Iron Mining Company

Liberius (pope)

Libya

Life expectancy/span

Liliuokalani (Hawaiian Queen)

Lincoln, Abraham

Literacy

Live Aid

Lloyd’s of London

Logic of Political Survival, The (Bueno de Mesquita et al. )

Los Angeles Times

Louis XIV (French king)

Louis Napoleon

Louis XVI (French king)

Loyalty

of army

coalition loyalty

in democracies

as most important characteristic of coalitions

for new leaders

of police

Luanda, Angola

Luce, Edward

Lumumba, Patrice

Luxembourg

McClellan, George B. (general)

Machiavelli, Niccolò

Madame Tien

Madison, James

Mafias

Magna Carta

Maize

Malaysia

Maliki, Nouri al-

Mandela, Nelson

Manirumva, Ernest

Mao Zedong

Marcos, Ferdinand

Marcos, Imelda

Marin, Humberto Sori

Marshall Plan

Martyrdom

Maryland 3rd Congressional district

Massacres. See also Atrocities

Mass movements

Matabeleland

Media

Medical drug trials

Medicare/Medicaid

Medici family

Mehmet II and Mehmet III

Mengistu Haile Mariam

Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare)

Mexico

Mexican-American War

Mexico’s tax take and democratization

Michael III (emperor)

Middle class

Middle East

Military

allowing uprisings

army defections

army salaries

military juntas

military spending

See also Loyalty: of army; Wars

Milk, Harvey

Millennium Goals program

Mills, Atta

Milosevic, Slobodan

Minerals

Minorities

MIT

Mobuto Sese Seko

Mogadishu, battle of

Moi, Daniel Arap

Monarchy

absolute monarchs

constitutional monarchies

Mondale, Walter

Money

controlling flow of funds

discretionary

escrowed money

money laundering

transferring

See also Borrowing; Debt; Income; Military: army salaries; Revenues; Salaries, government; Wealth redistribution

Mongolia

Monks

Montesquieu

Morgan, J. P.

Morrow, James D.

Mosaddeq, Mohammed

Mozambique

Mubarak, Hosni

Mubarak, Khalid al-

Mugabe, Robert

Muhammad (Prophet)

Muslim Brotherhood

Myanmar (Burma)

Nagin, Ray

Napoleon Bonaparte

Nasser, Gamal Abdul

National defense

National Health Service (Britain)

National interest

Nationality

Nationalization

Nation building

Native Americans

NATO

Natural disasters

Natural gas

Natural resources. See also Extraction; Oil

Nazarbayev, Nursultan

Negotiations

Nehru, Jawaharlal

Nepal

Netherlands

Ne Win (General)

New York City

New York Times

NGOs. See Nongovernmental organizations

Nicaragua

Nicholas (czar)

Nigeria

Nkomo, Joshua

Nkrumah, Kwame

Noblesse de robe

Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)

North Africa

North Korea

Norway

Nuclear weapons

Obama, Barack

Ocampo, Luis Moreno

OECD. See Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Oil

oil shocks in 1970s

Olympic games

One-person one-vote

OPEC. See Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries

Operation Desert Storm

Opium wars

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)

Orr, Susan

Ossebi, Bruno Jacquet

Ottoman Empire

Oxfam

Oxford University

Packard, David

Packard, David Woodley

Padró i Miguel, Gerard

Pahlavi, Shah Mohammad Reza

Pakistan

US assistance to

Palestine

Palestinian Authority

Panorama news program (BBC)

PAP. See People’s Action Party in Singapore

Paris Club

Parliaments

Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) party in Mexico

Patriot, The (Indian newspaper)

Patronage systems

Pennsylvania

People’s Action Party (PAP) in Singapore

Perestroika

Perez Alfonzo, Juan Pablo

Perot, H. Ross

Peru

Philippines

Plato

Platt, Lewis

Poland

Police forces

Politics

essential lesson of

and momentary circumstances

political competition

political liberalization( see also Liberalization, economic/political)

political parties

and self-interest of leaders

Pol Pot

Population sizes

Pork-barrel projects

Portugal

Poverty. See also under Foreign aid

Powell, Colin

Powell Doctrine

Power, getting and keeping

Prasad, Mahamaya

PRI. See Partido Revolucionario Institucional party in Mexico

Prices

price supports