Political Leaders & Leadership

Conceived by Charles Beard as a sequel to his provocative study of American Foreign Policy in the Making, 1932-1940, President Roosevelt and the Co...

The March 2000 presidential election was an important milestone in the democratic development of Taiwan, with the Kuomintang turned out of power af...

This unique resource will be an enormous aid and impetus to Churchill studies. It lists over 600 works, with annotations, and includes sections lis...

Most famous in Europe for his efforts to establish the League of Nations under US leadership at the end of the First World War, Woodrow Wilson stan...

This book places the 2000 presidential and congressional elections into the larger and future context of American politics. The essays in Part I fo...

What is political leadership and does it operate differently in different political contexts? In addition to context, personal political skill play...

Leaders provides six in-depth studies of leaders who demonstrate a new style of leadership for the 21st century. W. Henry Lambright describes how D...

The sprawling nominating process is the critical first step every four years in the election of the president. It is where the field of contenders ...

There has long been a need for a scholarly English edition of the great 13th century historical epic, The Secret History of the Mongols, the only s...

Judith Brown explores Nehru as a figure of power and provides an assessment of his leadership at the head of a newly independent India with no trad...

Political Elite and the New Russia convincingly argues that although reforms in Russia have been initiated by those close to the President, in fact...

Who are the top political leaders in China? What are the major criteria in elite recruitment? How is job promotion in high politics determined? By ...

From a highly distinguished author on the subject, this biography is an excellent scholarly introduction to one of the key figures of the Russian R...

From a highly distinguished author on the subject, this biography is an excellent scholarly introduction to one of the key figures of the Russian R...

This book provides a wide-ranging history of every aspect of Stalin's dictatorship over the peoples of the Soviet Union. Drawing upon a huge array ...

This book provides a wide-ranging history of every aspect of Stalin's dictatorship over the peoples of the Soviet Union. Drawing upon a huge array ...

In the election to the House of Representatives in 2009, the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) almost tripled the number of its lower house members b...

This new textbook provides students with a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the presidents and presidential leadership in Latin America...

The 1950s in India were a crucial transition phase where the legacy and institutions of British rule had to be transformed to fit the needs of a po...

The book analyzes the presidencies of three neighboring Central European countries – Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia – in the context of th...

Bush II, Obama, and the Decline of U.S. Hegemony in the Western Hemisphere applies competing definitions and conceptions of hegemony to various for...

This new textbook provides students with a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the presidents and presidential leadership in Latin America...

In literature and film the spy chief is an all-knowing, all-powerful figure who masterfully moves spies into action like pieces on a chessboard. Ho...