A comprehensive study of Thabo Mbeki's leadership and its implications for South Africa's future. The book explores whether there is a central strand of thinking that informs Mbeki's politics and policy-making, and examines how Mbeki interacts with his core base and most important constituencies.
This volume takes a hard look at the long-term social transformation behind the dramatic politics of the Mahathir era in Malaysia. It ranges over issues of political economy, ideology, interethnic relations, the challenge of Islam and the complexities of leadership transition.
This work on Malaysian politics offers an analysis of the Mahathir project, examining how Mahathir has, over 20 years, translated the basis of the ruling bloc's legitimacy from one of coercive domination and ethnic card-playing into a more consensual form of hegemonic support.
This work on Malaysian politics offers an analysis of the Mahathir project, examining how Mahathir has, over 20 years, translated the basis of the ruling bloc's legitimacy from one of coercive domination and ethnic card-playing into a more consensual form of hegemonic support.
This text asks how to manage a presidency that has become a bureaucracy. It surveys presidential organizations from Roosevelt's to George W. Bush's, examining the changing responsibilities of executive branch jobs and their relationships with one another, Capitol Hill and the permanent government.
John A. Macdonald?s flamboyant personality dominated Canadian public life from the years preceding Confederation to the end of the 19th century. ?Probably the greatest Canadian biography yet published in English? ? Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Documents Harry S Truman's national security legacy, including a series of foreign policy initiatives. Credited with establishing post-World War II order, Truman's political heritage also includes the creation of NATO and the United Nations, food and foreign aid programs, the Marshall Plan and the integration of the US armed forces.