Leaders and their followers in a dangerous world : the psychology of political behavior / Jerrold M. Post ; with a foreword by Alexander L. George.
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TextSeries: Psychoanalysis and social theoryPublication details: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, c2004.Description: xvii, 302 p. : ill. ; cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0801441692
- 9780801441691
- 320.01 23 POS
- JC330.3 .P68 2004
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-291) and index.
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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