A dozen years out of Harvard, investment banker Bill Middendorf's salary hit $250,000 a year; another dozen years, with his own firm and a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, his income was well into seven figures.
This collection of articles explores changes in images of the French monarchy propagated in ceremonies that townspeople and officials created for their kings.
This book presents an in-depth analysis of the role played by the EU accession process in Turkey's democratic evolution and in the empowerment of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the early 2000s.
In examining the presidencies of Barack Obama and Donald Trump, and by extension their communication styles, this book provides a foundation for understanding charismatic leadership and its potent effect on followers.
In an era of resurgent military political activism, this volume examines the cross-national drivers of cabinet militarization in democratic regimes, and provides an in-depth study of its causes and consequences in Brazil.
Zum Ende der Amtszeit Joe Bidens als Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika wurde dieses Handbuch grundlegend überarbeitet, aktualisiert und erweitert.
As a new president takes power in Russia, this book provides an analysis of the changing relationship between control of Russian television media and presidential power during the tenure of President Vladimir Putin.
As China's political and economic influence in the world is rapidly increasing, it is essential to understand how China's domestic politics affects its foreign political and economic policy.
'No previous generation of statesmen has had to conduct policy in so unknown an environment at the border line of Armageddon'-Henry Kissinger Nuclear weapons pose a unique challenge to American foreign policy and the American president in particular.
From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a new appreciation of the extraordinary life and legacy of Léon Blum, the first Jewish prime minister of France Léon Blum (1872–1950), France’s prime minister three times, socialist activist, and courageous opponent of the pro-Nazi Vichy regime, profoundly altered French society.
"e;Haff"e;-Breed is a memoir about the trials and tribulations of a mixed-race boy, now man, who grew up on a Indian reservation, traversing through the struggles of family dysfunction and the desire to leave his roots behind but later in life trying to reclaim what it means to be a Jicarilla Apache member and soon find out what it means to be made to feel like you are not.
The late Julius Kambarage Nyerere was nicknamed ,Musa, (Moses) during the later, post-independence years for leading his people from slavery and guiding them toward a free land of prosperity , the Promised Land.
A brilliant student, an accomplished lawyer, a reluctant politician, a surprise presidential candidate who was controversially elected and incessantly criticised; Levy Mwanawasa posthumously enjoys high approval ratings.
Using Kenya as a case-study to mirror other African countries this book interrogates the phenomenon of leadership, within and without the political domain.
On January 20, 2009, Barack Hussein Obama made history as the first African-American president of the United States of America since its founding in 1776.
The subject of revolutionary overthrow of constitutional orders in Africa is at the intersection of three disciplines: jurisprudence and legal philosophy, constitutional law and power politics, and civil-military relations, that is, military security policy which is one aspect of national security policy.
This meticulous and comprehensive documentation of Cameroonian Youth Day Messages and leadership discourse on youth from 1949 - 2009 is a gold mine for researchers, historians and anyone interested in studying youth, politics and society in Africa.
Morgan Richard Tsvangirai is arguably the most polarising figure and advocate of democracy and human rights in the history of opposition politics in Zimbabwe.
Hay acontecimientos y figuras históricas cuyas vidas y logros han sido distorsionados y vilificados por las leyendas de ciertos sectores de la memoria colectiva hasta tal punto que la verdad histórica ha quedado oscurecida u olvidada, incluso cuando está respaldada por evidencia empírica.
Muerto en febrero de 2021, Carlos Menem sigue siendo una figura incómoda, como si hubiera algo vergonzante que impidiera reconocerlo como parte de nuestra historia y prefiriéramos borrarlo de la foto.
"Por mérito propio o por deficiencias ajenas, la mujer política a la que le adosaban todos los defectos y ninguna virtud superó la prueba ácida de un peronismo que se apuró a jubilarla en un pacto explícito con Macri y, llegado el momento, fue ella la que ganó la iniciativa, armó a dedo la fórmula presidencial de la unidad y recuperó con un movimiento imprevisto a los aliados que había perdido durante sus años de equivocaciones en la Rosada.
Entre 2017 y 2018 surgieron en la Argentina varios grupos de análisis y discusión: intelectuales, activistas, investigadores, periodistas se reunían en espacios a veces improvisados para pensar la política y sentar posición con documentos que circulaban sobre todo en redes.
Puede resultar incómodo, irritante y hasta doloroso, pero admitir que el macrismo pelea y por momentos gana la subjetividad de los argentinos es fundamental para entender su éxito.
Néstor Kirchner fue un animal político descomunal y complejo, que marcó un antes y un después en la historia argentina tanto para los partidarios como para los detractores.
Revolucion justicialista y Actualizacion politica y doctrinaria para la toma del poder -los textos que componen este volumen -son piezas imprescindibles para comprender, hacia el pasado y hacia el futuro, la sustancia misma del peronismo.
