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Leaders and Their Followers in a Dangerous World - The Psychology of Political Behavior (Hardcover, New)
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Leaders and Their Followers in a Dangerous World - The Psychology of Political Behavior (Hardcover, New)
Series: Psychoanalysis and Social Theory
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"Post is a pioneer in the field of political-personality profiling.
He may be the only psychiatrist who has specialized in the
self-esteem problems of both Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein."
The New Yorker "Policy specialists and academic scholars have long
agreed that for U.S. leaders to deal effectively with other actors
in the international arena, they need images of their adversaries.
Leaders must try to see events, and, indeed, their own behavior,
from the perspective of opponents. . . . Faulty images are a source
of misperceptions and miscalculations that have often led to major
errors in policy, avoidable catastrophes, and missed opportunities.
History supplies all too many examples." from the ForewordWhat
impels leaders to lead and followers to follow? How did Osama bin
Laden, the son of a multibillionaire construction magnate in Saudi
Arabia, become the world's number-one terrorist? What are the
psychological foundations of man's inhumanity to man, ethnic
cleansing, and genocide? Jerrold M. Post contends that such
questions can be answered only through an understanding of the
psychological foundations of leader personality and political
behavior.Post was founding director of the Center for the Analysis
of Personality and Political Behavior for the CIA. He developed the
political personality profiles of Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat
for President Jimmy Carter's use at the Camp David talks and
initiated the U.S. government's research program on the psychology
of political terrorism. He was awarded the Intelligence Medal of
Merit in 1979 for his leadership of the center.In this book, he
draws on psychological and personality theories, as well as
interviews with individual terrorists and those who have interacted
with particular leaders, to discuss a range of issues: the effects
of illness and age on a leader's political behavior; narcissism and
the relationship between followers and a charismatic leader; the
impact of crisis-induced stress on policymakers; the mind of the
terrorist, with a consideration of "killing in the name of God";
and the need for enemies and the rise of ethnic conflict and
terrorism in the post-Cold War environment. The leaders he
discusses include Fidel Castro, Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein,
Kim Jong Il, and Slobodan Milosevic."
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