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While it is difficult to predict how far he might move in this direction, it would be politically difficult for Obama to meet the North Korean leader in such a manner, something that he is likely to learn early in his presidency.
North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-il, is reportedly ill.
They remain overwhelmed by Putin’s transformation from CEO of Russia, Inc., into an ideology-fueled national leader who will stop at nothing to restore his country’s influence.
The best example is US President Barack Obama, on whom so many hopes rested – probably too many for any one leader.
But there is another target as well: Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and opposition leader.
In the Internet environment, the traditional view of a leader being decisively in control is difficult to reconcile with reality.
But now that Japan finally has a leader who agrees, the US is getting nervous, with Secretary of State John Kerry supposedly calling Japan under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe “unpredictable.”
Third, reforms require a strong leader.
Indeed, as Vuk Draskovic, the leader of the largest opposition group, tried to hijack last week's massive protest of 100,000 in Belgrade (a rally he had previously shunned), security men from Draskovic's Serbian Renewal Movement and Zoran Djindjic's Democratic Party openly scuffled.
Once Milosevic was stripped of real power, his Socialist Party would seek a new leader; the road would be open for Milosevic's removal.
The most vocal advocate of this is Mladjan Dinkic, the energetic leader of an economic think tank called G 17.
What the new government would then look like is difficult to know, but it certain that Milosevic would not be its leader.
The postcommunists know that they can no longer live off their legacy of organization and discipline, so they have chosen a clever and attractive 34-year-old leader.
The goal of the Accords, largely the result of the Soviet Union’s initiative, was to improve relations between the Cold War antagonists – and, for Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, to formalize international recognition of post-World War II national borders.
Choosing between an authoritarian Spanish state and a “make Catalonia great again” nationalism is equivalent to choosing between Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the President of the Eurogroup of eurozone finance ministers, and Marine Le Pen, the leader of France’s far-right National Front: austerity or disintegration.
When Iraq was liberated, most people, especially the poor, began to hope for a charismatic leader who would save them from the bitter reality of daily life.
Whatever his motives, Netanyahu has achieved what no Israeli leader ever has: not only infuriating the US president (who was already quite angry with him), but also earning the public rebuke of people who would normally have supported any Israeli leader, whatever they might have thought in private.
The fact that Israel could always count on US backing, especially on such public occasions as congressional speeches by an Israeli leader, only confirmed the assumption of many people around the world that Israel and the US are joined like Siamese twins.
By claiming to be the leader of all Jewish people, wherever they live, Netanyahu has only strengthened that notion.
A Pakistani intellectual once confessed to me, “I fear the weak electoral showings of Islamists in Pakistan has more to do with the fact that a compelling, charismatic Islamist leader – a Pakistani Hassan Nasrallah – has yet to emerge, not that his message wouldn't resonate.”
To paraphrase Winston Churchill, elections are the worst way to select a political leader, save for all other methods that have been tried – and nowhere more so than in America.
It makes little sense to abandon them, especially to ingratiate ourselves with a leader who has shown himself to be capricious and utterly untrustworthy.
Pursuing this option implies that the EU should push for progress in trade talks with Japan, negotiate an investment agreement with China, modernize the EU-Mexico Global Agreement, and position itself as a world leader on tax reform.
At the same time, Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the opposition Labour Party, managed to appear competent and confident.
His analysis shows that the more popular a leader is when calling an early election, the more likely it is that he or she will lose support during the campaign.
According to Smith’s theory, any leader who calls a snap election should expect to see his or her support decline, as has just occurred in Britain.
May has proved to be a far less confident leader than anyone had expected.
China is intent on lowering CO2 emissions, cleaning its air, and becoming the twenty-first-century leader in low-carbon technologies such as photovoltaics and electric vehicles.
Alexey Navalny, the main organizer and Russia’s de facto opposition leader, was arrested in dramatic fashion, dragged out of a rally in Moscow by police.
Vladimir Putin, however, prefers to promote the impression of his being a more enlightened and modern leader.
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