Personality, political leadership, and decision making
Subtitle: a global perspective
By: Jean Krasno and Sean LaPides, editors
Publisher: Praeger, an Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 441
ISBN-13: 9781440839108; 9781440839115
Subjects: Case studies; Personality and politics; Political leadership; Decision making
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Laying Out the Conceptual Framework / Jean Krasno; title: Colonel Gaddafi : The Political Psychology of a Mad Dog? / Peter Marcus Kristensen and Salem B.S. Dandan; title: Saddam Hussein : Violence and Terror, Charlotte Scaddan / Marcin Szudek and Jean Krasno; title: Fidel Castro : Philosopher-Despot / Sean LaPides; title: Gamal Abdel Nasser : Legacy in the Arab World / Jean Krasno and Emad Baniyounes; title: Hugo Chavez : A Quintessential Political Personality / James Suggett; title: The Emperor Hirohito : the Decision to Attack Pearl Harbor / Shun Sakugawa; title: Henry Stimson and His Influence on Harry Truman : A Victorian Conservative in the Atomic Court / Monika Adamczyk; title: Margaret Thatcher : the 1982 Falklands War / Helen Baxendale; title: Golda Meir : Prime Minister of Israel 1969-1974 / Robert Lattin; title: Silvio Berlusconi : "I am the Jesus Christ of politics" /John Tumminia; title: Eva Peron : Spiritual Leader of the Nation / Evette Rivera and Jean Krasno; title: Angela Merkel : The Outsider Who Became Chancellor / Sean LaPides; title: Benazir Bhutto : Personality, Beliefs, and the Empowerment of Women / Nicole DiMarco; title: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf : Personal Experience and the Promotion of Women / Nicole DiMarco; title: Mikhail Gorbachev : End of the Cold War / Natasha Zemtsova Miller; title: William Jefferson Clinton : Promise, Persistence, and the Will to Be Adored / Jean Krasno; title: Václav Havel : the Most Deserving Political Leader to have Never Won a Nobel Peace Prize / Jakub Walko; title: Kofi Annan : From Ghana to the World Stage / Jean Krasno; title: Nelson Mandela : a Leader with no Followers is Just Someone Taking a Walk / Chris Hammond; title: Devils to Angels : Addressing the Cases Along a Continuum / Jean Krasno.