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Political Leadership in an Era of Decolonisation: Case Studies from Across the Globe book cover

1st Edition

Political Leadership in an Era of Decolonisation Case Studies from Across the Globe

Edited By Malcolm Murfett Copyright 2024
218 Pages
by Routledge

218 Pages
by Routledge

218 Pages
by Routledge
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What is leadership, and why is it so important? In what ways does it look very different in different contexts, and in what ways does it look the same? Malcolm Murfett brings together a range of emerging and established scholars to examine these questions in light of some of the mid-twentieth century’s most intriguing national leaders. In a series of striking biographical chapters, lessons are... Read more

1 Leadership in apartheid South Africa: the impact of Hendrik Verwoerd and B.J. Vorster

J.E. Spence

2 Lee Kuan Yew: from political insurgent to national manager

Michael D. Barr

3 Fidel Castro: the eternal leader of a revolution or the leader of an eternal revolution?

Vinicius Mariano de Carvalho

4 The unlikely prime minister: rethinking Sirimavo Bandaranaike’s leadership in a bipolar nation and world

Darinee Alagirisamy

5 Julius Nyerere: African leadership as a moral project

Sara Lorenzini

6 Leonid Brezhnev: rule through trust and care

Susanne Schattenberg

7 Nicolae Ceauşescu: interpreting a national-Stalinist

Francesco Magno

8 The rise and fall of Richard Nixon as a global leader

Umberto Tulli

9 Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi: a moderniser challenged by Islamists and Leftists

Pejman Abdolmohammadi

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Malcolm Murfett

Biography

Malcolm Murfett is Visiting Professor in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. A historian of the contemporary world with over a dozen books to his name, Malcolm is also Associate Editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and the Series Editor of Cold War in Asia.

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