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9781137454027 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 24, 2014, cover price $105.00
Product Description: This book offers a novel approach to understanding the puzzle of nuclear proliferation by examining how leadersâ beliefs and perceptions about the international system influence states' decisions to acquire nuclear weapons. Today, there is a persisting dilemma over the spread of nuclear weapons for both practitioners and scholars of international affairs...read more
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9780415855525 | Routledge, September 19, 2014, cover price $155.00 | About this edition: This book offers a novel approach to understanding the puzzle of nuclear proliferation by examining how leadersâ beliefs and perceptions about the international system influence states' decisions to acquire nuclear weapons.
Product Description: What do such disparate events as Occupy Wall Street, Iran's Islamic revolution and Venezuela's socialist revolution have in common? Often, resentment based on past grievances or shortcomings seems to emerge from the depths of individual and collective psyches over the course of such emotionally charged movements...read more
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9781781006566 | Edward Elgar Pub, December 12, 2012, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: What do such disparate events as Occupy Wall Street, Iran's Islamic revolution and Venezuela's socialist revolution have in common?
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9781782540212 | Edward Elgar Pub, June 14, 2014, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: What do such disparate events as Occupy Wall Street, Iran's Islamic revolution and Venezuela's socialist revolution have in common?
Product Description: More than two thousand years ago the Chinese strategist Sun Tzu advised us to know our enemies. The question has always been how. In A Sense of the Enemy, the historian Zachary Shore demonstrates that leaders can best understand an opponent not simply from his pattern of past behavior, but from his behavior at pattern breaks...read more
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9780199987375, titled "A Sense of the Enemy: The High-stakes History of Reading Your Rival's Mind" | Oxford Univ Pr, March 14, 2014, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: More than two thousand years ago the Chinese strategist Sun Tzu advised us to know our enemies.
Product Description: Much of the writing on charisma focuses on specific traits associated with exceptional leaders, a practice that has broadened the concept of charisma to such an extent that it loses its distinctiveness â and therefore its utility...read more
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9780857453297 | Berghahn Books, August 15, 2012, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: Much of the writing on charisma focuses on specific traits associated with exceptional leaders, a practice that has broadened the concept of charisma to such an extent that it loses its distinctiveness â and therefore its utility.
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9780521113724 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 31, 2012, cover price $110.00
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9780521130660 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 31, 2012, cover price $44.99
Product Description: This ground-breaking and innovative book examines the influence of charisma on power, authority and nationalism. The authors both apply and challenge Max Weberâs concept of âcharismaâ and integrate it into a broader discussion of other theoretical models...read more
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9780415671514 | Routledge, March 8, 2012, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: This ground-breaking and innovative book examines the influence of charisma on power, authority and nationalism.
Product Description: In an age when world affairs are powerfully driven by personality, politics require an understanding of what motivates political leaders such as Hussein, Bush, Blair, and bin Laden. Through exacting case studies and the careful sifting of evidence, Jerrold Post and his team of contributors lay out an effective system of at-a-distance evaluation...read more
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9780472098385 | Univ of Michigan Pr, March 1, 2003, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Choosing two charismatic, powerful leaders, the author reveals his government-approved methodology for evaluating political leadership and applies it to both Bill Clinton and Saddam Hussein.
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9780472068388 | 1 edition (Univ of Michigan Pr, March 23, 2005), cover price $37.50 | About this edition: In an age when world affairs are powerfully driven by personality, politics require an understanding of what motivates political leaders such as Hussein, Bush, Blair, and bin Laden.
Product Description: People may choose to ignore their animal heritage by interpreting their behavior as divinely inspired, socially purposeful, or even self-serving, all of which they attribute to being human, but they masticate, fornicate, and procreate, much as chimps and apes do, so they should have little cause to get upset if they learn that they act like other primates when they politically agitate, debate, abdicate, placate, and administrate, too...read more
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9780813122335 | Univ Pr of Kentucky, May 3, 2002, cover price $45.00
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9780813190686 | Univ Pr of Kentucky, May 1, 2004, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: People may choose to ignore their animal heritage by interpreting their behavior as divinely inspired, socially purposeful, or even self-serving, all of which they attribute to being human, but they masticate, fornicate, and procreate, much as chimps and apes do, so they should have little cause to get upset if they learn that they act like other primates when they politically agitate, debate, abdicate, placate, and administrate, too.
The question of what impels leaders to lead and followers to follow is one of many questions that can be answered through an understanding of personality and psychological theories, in a study that discusses a range of issues, including the need for enemies, aging and political behavior, the impact of crisis-induced stress on policymakers, and the mind of a terrorist.
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9780801441691 | Cornell Univ Pr, March 11, 2004, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The question of what impels leaders to lead and followers to follow is one of many questions that can be answered through an understanding of personality and psychological theories, in a study that discusses a range of issues, including the need for enemies, aging and political behavior, the impact of crisis-induced stress on policymakers, and the mind of a terrorist.
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9780521808224 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 1, 2001, cover price $110.00
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9780521004251 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 1, 2001, cover price $44.99
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9780833015785 | Rand Corp, January 1, 1994, cover price $7.50 | About this edition: This essay introduces and defines the concept of the hubris-nemesis complex, illustsrates it by drawing upon both mythic characters and real personalities.
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