Leaders and their followers in a dangerous world : the psychology of political behavior

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Post, Jerrold M
Other Authors: George, Alexander L.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 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.