Leaders and their followers in a dangerous world : the psychology of political behavior / Jerrold M. Post ; with a foreword by Alexander L. George.

By:

Post, Jerrold M

Contributor(s):

George, Alexander L

Material type:

TextSeries: Psychoanalysis and social theoryPublication details: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, c2004.Description: xvii, 302 p. : ill. ; cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0801441692
9780801441691

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Case studies.

DDC classification:

320.01 23 POS

LOC classification:

JC330.3 .P68 2004

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Table of contents

Contents:

9/11, the explosive force of personality and political behavior -- When personality affects political behavior -- The psychopolitics of illness in high office -- Terminal leadership, effects of mortal illness on political behavior -- The impact of crisis-induced stress on policy makers -- The mind of the terrorist -- The loss of enemies: fragmenting identities and ethnic/nationalist hatred in Eastern Europe -- Hate-mongering leaders in the former Yugoslavia: Radovan Karadzic and Slobodan Milosevic -- Narcissism and the charismatic leader-follower relationship -- Fidel Castro, aging revolutionary leader of an aging revolution -- Saddam Hussein, "Saddam is Iraq, Iraq is Saddam" -- Kim Jong II of North Korea, in the shadow of his father -- Concluding observations.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-291) and index.

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