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This study examines aspects of political leadership and governance in the last decades of the 20th century. It examines seven world leaders who assumed power in this time, and discusses issues such as the political-economic context and the leader's political programme.

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Preface Global Turbulence: Political Change at Century's End The New Political Environment: Six Changed Relationships Margaret Thatcher: Economic Decline and Turbulence in the United Kingdom Helmut Kohl and the German Reunification Project Lech Walesa and the Emergence of Postcommunist Poland Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, and the Democratization of Russia Rajiv Gandhi: Economic Liberalization in India Deng Xiaoping: China's Economic Transformation Leadership in the Age of Turbulence Selected Bibliography Index

Governing Through Turbulence

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    A Paperback by Paul J. Best, Kul Rai, Dave Walsh

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      Publisher ABC-CLIO
      Published 8/15/1995 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780275951672
      978-0275951672
      ISBN-10 0275951677
      Also in:
      Anthropology Political ideologies and movements

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This study examines aspects of political leadership and governance in the last decades of the 20th century. It examines seven world leaders who assumed power in this time, and discusses issues such as the political-economic context and the leader's political programme.

      Table of Contents
      Preface Global Turbulence: Political Change at Century's End The New Political Environment: Six Changed Relationships Margaret Thatcher: Economic Decline and Turbulence in the United Kingdom Helmut Kohl and the German Reunification Project Lech Walesa and the Emergence of Postcommunist Poland Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, and the Democratization of Russia Rajiv Gandhi: Economic Liberalization in India Deng Xiaoping: China's Economic Transformation Leadership in the Age of Turbulence Selected Bibliography Index

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