Political Leaders & Leadership

In this rich study of Union governors and their role in the Civil War,Stephen D. Engle examines how these politicians were pivotal in securingvicto...

This book examines the societal dynamics of memory politics in Russia. Since Vladimir Putin became president, the Russian central government has in...

In crisis situations, such as terror attacks or societal tensions caused by migration, people tend to look for explicit moral and spiritual leaders...

This book focuses on leadership -- what it is, how it works, and how complex, multi-layered and multi-dimensional it is -- and how it will change i...

Ties between the United States (US) and the European Union (EU) rival those between any other pair of international actors. After all, no other reg...

Former Israeli intelligence officer Moshe Shemesh offers a fresh understanding of the complex history and politics of the Middle East in this new a...

This is the story of the great coalition formed by the United States, Great Britain, and Soviet Russia to combat the Axis in World War II. Mr. Feis...

Russian Nobel prizewinner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (19182008) is widely acknowledged as one of the most important figuresand perhaps the most importa...

Between 1968 and 1975, there was a subtle thawing of relations between East and West, for which Brezhnev coined the name Détente, and perhaps a c...

This book, operating within the domain of political sociology, undertakes a comprehensive examination of the Kurdistan Regional Government's (KRG) ...

The Freedom of Information Act, developed at the height of the Cold War, highlighted the power struggles between Congress and the president in that...

What do we remember about US Presidents, and how do we come to commemorate their legacies?Few personalities loom larger than the President of the U...

Examines how Trump's election as President signals a rollback of the Obama yearsEstablishes what can be regarded as Obama's legacy, in both domesti...