Leadership in Conflict
The Lessons of History
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Steven I. Davis
Political Science and International Relations
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Napoleon Bonaparte
In a 15-year period between gras** power on 18 Brumaire in 1799 and his exile to Elba, Napoleon Bonaparte transformed France in terms of military power, economic strength, criminal and civil law, the role of...
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Ignatius Loyola
Founder of the Jesuit order in the sixteenth century, Ignatius Loyola blended a passionate Christian belief in personal salvation with the ability to lead a truly global organization of individual ‘Companions’...
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Albert Schweitzer
In building and sustaining his hospital settlement in Equatorial Africa, Albert Schweitzer combined a high degree of moral leadership and the pragmatic skills of running a medical community under overwhelmingl...
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Charlemagne
During a 46-year reign which brought together most of present- day Continental Western Europe in the late eighth century AD under his sole leadership, Charlemagne pursued a vision of uniting the Christian worl...
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Pericles
During his three decades of effective power between 460 and 430BC, Pericles led Athens to the peak of its military, cultural and economic power and influence. His achievements of naval superiority, the buildin...
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Josip Broz Tito
Josip Broz Tito’s singular leadership achievement was to create a Communist Yugoslavia forged in the turmoil of wartime invasion in 1941, the clash of regional loyalties, and ideological conflict ranging from ...
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Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson is a central figure in any study of leadership. Rarely has a leader so effectively, and in so many career roles, blended an idealistic vision with the necessary steadfast determination, pragmati...
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Direction: The Role of Vision and Values
Contemporary literature on leadership emphasizes the central role of a shared vision among the group to be led (Kouzes and Posner; Bennis; Bass). Such a vision sets a challenging but achievable goal which is p...
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The Moral Dimension: Leadership for What?
Of all the leadership issues raised by our research, placing a moral judgement on a leader’s contribution is the most divisive and least resolved. The widely different definitions of leadership cited in the In...
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Disciplined and Relentless Pursuit
The third - and perhaps most remarkable - quality of our leadership universe is its relentless, disciplined and determined pursuit of the directional goals established. Whether democrat or dictator, humanitari...
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Charles de Gaulle
From his days as a rebellious officer at the collapse of France in 1940 through the military revolt over Algeria in the 1950s and student unrest in 1968, Charles de Gaulle successfully faced conflict. He addre...
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Introduction:
The conflicts and confrontations which appear to be a permanent feature of the 1990s seem to cry out for a leader who can knit the polarized factions together. The objective of this book is to examine the beha...
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Henri de Navarre
In the second half of the sixteenth century, a series of weak Valois monarchs was unable to halt a murderous civil war between the Catholic majority and Protestant minority which devastated France for decades....
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Kemal Ataturk
From his successful military leadership at Gallipoli in 1915 to his death in 1938, Mustapha Kemal Ataturk played the central role in the creation of the modern Turkey. Rarely has a single individual not only c...
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Isabella la Catolica
Gras** the leadership of Castile following 50 years of civil strife, political fragmentation and weak kingship, Isabella of Castile in the late fifteenth century imposed on her subjects her vision of a unifi...
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Simon Bolivar
In the two decades after he personally declared war in 1809 on the Spanish rulers of Latin America, Simon Bolivar emerged as the Liberator and effective dictator not only of his native Venezuela but also of pr...
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Abraham Lincoln
Elected President by the votes of the anti-slavery faction, Abraham Lincoln on assuming office in 1860 faced the immediate secession of the Southern states and subsequently over four years of bloody, fratricid...
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Peter the Great
Peter the Great’s vision of a modern Russia, drawing fully on the best practice of Western Europe in the early eighteenth century, was sustained by an extraordinary level of energy, a pragmatic commitment to m...
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Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie’s leadership in forging what became the world’s largest and most profitable integrated steel company in the post-Civil War United States reflected both superior business acumen and effective le...
