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Leaders and their followers in a dangerous world : the psychology of political behavior / Jerrold M. Post ; with a foreword by Alexander George.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Psychoanalysis and social theoryPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2004Description: xvii, 302 pages : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0801441692
  • 9780801441691
Other title:
  • Leaders and their followers in a dangerous world : The psychology of political behaviour
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.019 22
LOC classification:
  • JC330.3 .P68 2004
Contents:
Foreword / Alexander J. George -- 1. 9/11: The Explosive Force of Personality and Political Behavior -- 2. When Personality Affects Political Behavior -- 3. The Psychopolitics of Illness in High Office -- 4. Terminal Leadership: Effects of Mortal Illness on Political Behavior -- 5. The Impact of Crisis-Induced Stress on Policy Makers -- 6. The Mind of the Terrorist -- 7. The Loss of Enemies: Fragmenting Identities and Ethnic/Nationalist Hatred in Eastern Europe -- 8. Hate-Mongering Leaders in the Former Yugoslavia: Radovan Karadzic and Slobodan Milosevic -- 9. Narcissism and the Charismatic Leader-Follower Relationship -- 10. Fidel Castro: Aging Revolutionary Leader of an Aging Revolution -- 11. Saddam Hussein: "Saddam Is Iraq, Iraq Is Saddam" -- 12. Kim Jong Il of North Korea: In the Shadow of His Father -- 13. Concluding Observations -- App. The Role of Political Personality Profiles in the Camp David Summit.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-291) and index.

Foreword / Alexander J. George -- 1. 9/11: The Explosive Force of Personality and Political Behavior -- 2. When Personality Affects Political Behavior -- 3. The Psychopolitics of Illness in High Office -- 4. Terminal Leadership: Effects of Mortal Illness on Political Behavior -- 5. The Impact of Crisis-Induced Stress on Policy Makers -- 6. The Mind of the Terrorist -- 7. The Loss of Enemies: Fragmenting Identities and Ethnic/Nationalist Hatred in Eastern Europe -- 8. Hate-Mongering Leaders in the Former Yugoslavia: Radovan Karadzic and Slobodan Milosevic -- 9. Narcissism and the Charismatic Leader-Follower Relationship -- 10. Fidel Castro: Aging Revolutionary Leader of an Aging Revolution -- 11. Saddam Hussein: "Saddam Is Iraq, Iraq Is Saddam" -- 12. Kim Jong Il of North Korea: In the Shadow of His Father -- 13. Concluding Observations -- App. The Role of Political Personality Profiles in the Camp David Summit.

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