Leader
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When Yassir Arafat, the perennial PLO, Fatah, and Palestinian Authority leader, died, Palestinians in theory had a chance to end this history of disasters.
In the wake of Russia’s annexation of Crimea, for example, Harper was the only G-7
leader
to visit Kyiv, where he drew stark – if questionable – historical parallels between Russia’s actions and Germany’s annexation of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia in 1938.
But it lost its predominance and was gradually eclipsed by the US, which, at least since 1945, has been the undisputed
leader
among market-based economies.
We are setting the bar high, by establishing our first collaboration with MIT, a
leader
in open online learning.
Indeed, the West’s hunger for energy brought invitations for Libya’s
leader
to visit France, Spain, and Portugal within the past year.
Russia had a low profile, but the EU, which considers itself the
leader
of climate policy, was simply informed post factum.
The world’s second-largest oil producer, and self-proclaimed
leader
of Shia Islam and anti-Western Muslim revolutionaries everywhere, remains a danger not just to Saudi Arabia but also to peace and stability in the Middle East and beyond.
Similarly, Mohamed Deif, the
leader
of Hamas’s military wing, asserted on a recent videotape that the lesson of Gaza is that Israel can be forced out of the West Bank, Jerusalem, and Haifa.
In addition, a successful
leader
needs the hard-power skills of organizational and Machiavellian political capacity.
Equally important is the contextual intelligence that allows a
leader
to vary the mix of these skills in different situations to produce the successful combinations that I call “smart power.”
George W. Bush once said that his role as
leader
was to be “the decider.”
But even if Bush had been better as a decider, people want something more in a
leader.
Contextual intelligence is the intuitive diagnostic skill that helps a
leader
align tactics with objectives to produce smart strategies in different situations.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel – whose East German upbringing should have given her especially acute insight into Putin’s authoritarian mindset – has described the Russian
leader
as detached from reality, guided by nineteenth-century Machtpolitik.
Of course, Abe is far from the first Japanese
leader
to confront this challenge.
Despite these straightforward declarations of regret, some governments and citizens continue to demand more, giving the impression that nothing a Japanese
leader
says or does will convince them of the country’s remorse.
The then-opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) went so far as to block the bill in parliament, with the upper house’s then-opposition leader, the lawyer Arun Jaitley, arguing that India’s territory is integral to its constitution and thus “cannot be reduced or altered by an amendment.”
Abdurrahman Wahid, the former chair of NU, for decades advocated respect for religious pluralism, and was pivotal in mobilizing democratic opposition to the authoritarian
leader
Suharto.
And, in Central Asia, India has projects at Ayni Air Base near Dushanbe in Tajikistan, including a functioning field hospital (where the late Ahmed Shah Massoud, the
leader
of Afghanistan’s anti-Soviet war, died following an assassination attempt on September 9, 2001).
Tellingly, Myanmar’s pro-democracy
leader
Aung San Suu Kyi has spoken of her country in terms of the “vicinity of China, the geographical distance of the US, and the cultural linkages with India.”
His presidency paved the way for hers, but she is a
leader
in her own right.
The question now is what kind of
leader
she will want to be in today’s more difficult domestic and international context.
Modi likes to be portrayed as a technologically savvy twenty-first-century
leader.
Given that the Labour Party
leader
at the time supported the hard-headed policy of Howard and his Liberal Party, both of Australia’s major parties were at fault.
In a part of the world where politics relies heavily on symbols, China has not invited North Korean
leader
Kim Jong-un to visit Beijing since he assumed power in 2012, and it appears unlikely to do so anytime soon.
Central Europe’s Unsentimental EducationBUDAPEST – This month marks the 20th anniversary of the reburial of Imre Nagy, the
leader
of Hungary’s failed anti-Soviet revolution of 1956.
Similarly, the revelation three years ago that the then-Australian opposition
leader
and aspiring prime minister, Mark Latham, had assaulted a taxi driver and broken his arm in a dispute about a fare was relevant for those who believe that a nation’s
leader
should be slow to anger.
Much will depend on whether he can shed his sectarian attitudes and become a truly inclusive
leader.
But Geert Wilders,
leader
of the right-wing, anti-Muslim Freedom Party, was so disgusted by the Dutch queen’s “multi-cultural rubbish” that he wanted her to be stripped of her constitutional role in the government.
Equally significant was the projection of China as a nascent
leader
of the new international cultural order.
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