Leaders and their followers in a dangerous world : the psychology of political behavior /
What impels leaders to lead and followers to follow? How did Osama bin Laden, the son of a multibillionaire construction magnate in Saudi Arabia, become the world's number one terrorist? What are the psychological foundations of man's inhumanity to man, ethnic cleansing, and genocide? Jerr...
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| Language: | English |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2004.
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| Series: | Psychoanalysis and social theory.
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Table of 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.