Leadership : Six Studies in World Strategy

By the same author
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
The Axes of Leadership
The Nature of Leadership Decisions
Six Leaders in Their Context
Epitomes of Leadership: The Statesman and the Prophet
The Individual in History
1. Konrad Adenauer: The Strategy of Humility
The Necessity of Renewal
From Early Life to Internal Exile
The Road to Leadership
The Restoration of Civil Order and the Inauguration of the Chancellor
The Path to a New National Identity
The Soviet Challenge and Rearmament
The Inextricable Past: Reparations to the Jewish People
Two Crises: Suez and Berlin
Three Conversations with Adenauer
German Unification: The Tormenting Wait
Final Conversations
The Adenauer Tradition
2. Charles de Gaulle: The Strategy of Will
Close Encounters
The Beginning of the Journey
The Sources and Aims of de Gaulle’s Conduct
De Gaulle in the History of France
De Gaulle and the Second World War
North African contest
Achieving Political Power
A Visit to Moscow
De Gaulle and the Provisional Government
The Desert
Failure in Indochina and Frustration in the Middle East
Algeria and the Return of de Gaulle
The Fifth Republic
The End of the Algerian Conflict
Germany as a Key to French Policy: De Gaulle and Adenauer
De Gaulle and the Atlantic Alliance
The Nuclear Directorate
Flexible Response and Nuclear Strategy
What Is an Alliance?
The End of the Presidency
The Nature of de Gaulle’s Statesmanship
De Gaulle and Churchill Compared
Behind the Mystery
3. Richard Nixon: The Strategy of Equilibrium
The World to Which Nixon Came
An Unforeseen Invitation
National Security Decision-making in the Nixon White House
Nixon’s Worldview
Diplomacy and Linkage
A Trip to Europe
The Vietnam War and Its Conclusion
Great Power Diplomacy and Arms control
Emigration from the Soviet Union
The Opening to China
The Middle East in Turmoil
The 1973 Middle East War
The Diplomacy of ceasefire
The Middle East Peace Process
Bangladesh and the Interlocking Cold War
Nixon and the American Crisis
4. Anwar Sadat: The Strategy of Transcendence
The special quality of Anwar Sadat
The Impact of History
Early Life
Contemplations in Prison
Egypt’s Independence
Mouthpiece of the Revolution
Nasser and Sadat
Sadat’s Perspective
The Corrective Revolution
Strategic Patience
The 1973 War
Meir and Sadat
The Meeting at the Tahra Palace
From Geneva to Disengagement
The Syrian Dimension
Another Step Toward Peace: The Sinai ii Agreement
Sadat’s Journey to Jerusalem
The Tortuous Road to Peace
The Unraveling
Assassination
Epilogue: The Unrealized Legacy
5. Lee Kuan Yew: The Strategy of Excellence
A Visit to Harvard
The Giant from Lilliput
Imperial Youth
Building a State
Building a Nation
‘Let History Judge’
Building an Economy
Lee and America
Lee and China
Between the US and China
Lee’s Legacy
Lee the Person
6. Margaret Thatcher: The Strategy of Conviction
A Most Unlikely Leader
Thatcher and the British System
The Challenges Ahead: Britain in the 1970s
The Ascent from Grantham
A Framework for Leadership
The Economic Reformer
In Defense of Sovereignty: The Falklands Conflict
Negotiations over Hong Kong
Confronting a Legacy of Violence: Northern Ireland
Fundamental Truths: The ‘Special Relationship’ and the Cold War
A Problem in Grenada
A Strategic Shift: East–West Engagement
Defending Kuwaiti Sovereignty: The Gulf Crisis
The Limits to Leadership: Germany and the Future of Europe
Europe, the Endless Difficulty
The Fall
Epilogue
Conclusion: The Evolution of Leadership
From Aristocracy to Meritocracy
Hard Truths
The Faltering Meritocracy
Deep Literacy and Visual Culture
Underlying Values
Leadership and World Order
The Future of Leadership
List of Illustrations
Notes
Index
About the Author