In Sickness and in Power: Illness in Heads of Government During the Last 100 YearsMethuen, 2008 - 420 páginas This study of illness in heads of government between 1901 and 2007 considers how illness and therapy - both physical and mental - affect the process of government and decision-making, leading to acts of folly, in the sense of stupidity or rashness. |
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... seemed to be a fall - off in his performance . The very high polling support after the Gulf War fell away as the wars in the former Yugoslavia developed in the summer of 1991 , marked by savage ethnic cleansing . Also people began to ...
... seemed to be a fall - off in his performance . The very high polling support after the Gulf War fell away as the wars in the former Yugoslavia developed in the summer of 1991 , marked by savage ethnic cleansing . Also people began to ...
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... seemed to be assuming that a protracted and costly nation- building option was likely to be forced on them , but , along with the intelligence services , the military were deeply alarmed by the lack of any post- invasion planning in ...
... seemed to be assuming that a protracted and costly nation- building option was likely to be forced on them , but , along with the intelligence services , the military were deeply alarmed by the lack of any post- invasion planning in ...
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... seemed to reinforce what he was starting to pick up from elsewhere . ' Cross remembers telling Blair : ' We want to ... seem to have the instinct for or understand the scope and complexity of what was going to be needed in the aftermath ...
... seemed to reinforce what he was starting to pick up from elsewhere . ' Cross remembers telling Blair : ' We want to ... seem to have the instinct for or understand the scope and complexity of what was going to be needed in the aftermath ...
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Prime Minister Edens illness and Suez | 109 |
President Kennedys health | 141 |
The Shahs secret illness | 191 |
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