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Book SynopsisThis 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 ContentsPreface 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