Political leaders and leadership

Despite being Africa's largest economy and most populous country, with abundant natural resources, Nigeria still faces substantial development challenges.

What if you could combine the agility, adaptability, and cohesion of a small team with the power and resources of a giant organization?

Jack M.

While the Justice and Development Party (AKP) has dominated Turkish politics for a decade and a half, recent years have seen a qualitative change, culminating in the 2017 referendum on the move to a presidential system.

In the early nineteenth century, London publishers dominated the transatlantic book trade.

The study of institutions, a core concept in comparative politics, has produced many rich and influential theories on the economic and political effects of institutions, yet it has been less successful at theorizing their origins.

Whether acting as a military officer or civilian officeholder, George Washington did not possess a reputation for glad handing, easy confidences, or even much warmth.

A timely history of the interplay between politics and military operations, 'Command is the history of our time' (Guardian)Military command has been reconstructed and revolutionized since the Second World War by nuclear warfare, small-scale guerrilla land operations and cyber interference.

Contemporary British and American fiction is defined by financial markets'' power over the global publishing industry and the global economy.

This book collects Mudde's old and new blog posts, interviews and op-eds on the topic of the US far right, ranging from right-wing populists to neo-Nazi terrorists.

This timely new textbook lays bare the ways in which disease and disaster can turn politicians into global leaders or national liabilities.

Since the Constitution delegates presidential powers in general rather than specific terms, the domestic influence of the president has varied over time according to the nature of the person holding the office.

Louis St.

This book explores the vast and ongoing legacy of Che Guevara in world politics.

The book assesses the development of the Orban regime in Hungary after 2010 through analyzing the polity-politics-policy impacts from a perspective of populism as an ideology focusing on discourse and actual decisions.

In From Vision to Folly in the American Soul Thomas Singer collates his investigations into soul both in its personal and collective manifestations.

A constantly evolving security agenda has become a vital part of US EU relations.

From abject poverty to undisputed political boss of Pennsylvania, Lincoln’s secretary of war, senator, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and a founder of the Republican Party, Simon Cameron (1799–1889) was one of the nineteenth century’s most prominent political figures.

This book provides a systematic exploration of party system change.

Investigates the underrepresentation of women in politics, by examining how language use constructs and maintains gender inequalities in political institutions.

This book provides a systematic assessment of the behaviour of some relatively successful presidents in African presidential republics, examining the part played by presidents in the development of their countries.

Throughout the history of the United States, only nine men were elevated to the White House by the death or failure of a sitting president, and their legacies are as mixed as their circumstances.

This book identifies six ethical competencies for public leadership in contexts of pluralism.

It is widely assumed that a competitive political environment of public distrust and critical media forces political parties to manage communications and reputations strategically, but is this really true?

Do political leaders determine whether a polity will receive a democratic future or not?

Most accounts of health and healthcare in Africa are written by foreigners.

This book argues for editing Shakespeare''s plays in a new way, without pretending to distinguish authorial from theatrical versions.

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The past decade has witnessed the emergence of a new vanguard in African American political leaders.

The author's father, when he was a senior Communist Party member in Belorussia, could have been implicated in the assassination of Mikhoels, the popular director of the State Jewish Theatre in the Soviet Union.

"e;"e;The aim of the Managing Global Insecurity project is to launch a reform effort of the global security system in 2009.

An introduction to how belonging and identity have been reflected, modified, and rearticulated in crucial moments throughout history.

The continuing churn of political advisers in Donald Trump's White House serve as a reminder of the salience and relevance of political advice.

This volume of over thirty essays is organised around five primary dimensions of Hillary Clinton's influence: policy, activism, campaigns, women's ambition and impact on parents and their children.

Published in partnership with the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress, this book offers insightful examinations of congressional success and failure from the New Deal to today by leading political scholars and journalists.

Argues that academic booksellers can understand, shape, and lead a sustainable future for academic text within the marketplace.

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The product of a lifetime immersed in the literary, performing arts, and entertainment worlds, Robert Gottlieb's Lives and Letters spotlights the work, careers, intimate lives, and lasting achievements of a vast array of celebrated writers and performers in film, theater, and dance, and some of the more curious iconic public figures of our times.

We will make America strong again.

The Pergau dam in Malaysia was the most controversial project in the history of British aid.

The world of publishing is evolving at an ever-increasing speed, with developments in digital workstreams and products, customer expectation, enriched content curation, and user-generated content becoming commonplace.

Lord Hankey (1877-1963) was a British civil servant and the first Cabinet Secretary, a top aide to Prime Minister David Lloyd George and the War Cabinet that directed Britain in World War One.

This is the first academic study of the impact of semi-presidentialism in emerging democracies outside of Europe.

For most of the twentieth century, Progressive Conservatives have governed Ontario.

Organized thematically, this book tells the story of the European encyclopedia from 1650 to the present.