The peacemakers : leadership lessons from twentieth-century statesmanship / Bruce W. Jentleson.
"Great leaders made the twentieth century safer and more peaceful. In The Peacemakers, a kind of global edition of John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage, Bruce Jentleson shows how key figures in the previous century rewrote the zero-sum and transactional scripts they were handed and succes...
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| Other title: | Peace makers. Leadership lessons from twentieth-century statesmanship. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
W.W. Norton & Company,
[2018]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction does history make statesmen or do statesmen make history?
- Henry Kissinger, Zhou Enlai, and the U.S.-China opening, 1971-1972
- Mikhail Gorbachev : ending the Cold War, 1985-1991
- Wilson and FDR : failure of the League of Nations, birth of the United Nations
- UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjøld : the "secular pope," 1953-1961
- Nelson Mandela, iconic statesman of reconciliation, 1989-1999
- Yitzhak Rabin, soldier as peacemaker, 1992-1995
- Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams, Northern Ireland women for peace, 1972-1977
- Gandhi : exemplar of anticolonialism, apostle of nonviolence, 1914-1948
- Lech Walesa : from communism to democracy, 1980-1990
- Aung San Suu Kyi : a cautionary tale, 1988-2015, 2016
- Peter Benenson, Amnesty International and the global human rights movement, 1961-1967
- Gro Harlem Brundtland : our common future, 1987-2003
- Gates Foundation and global health : philanthropy statesmanship, 2000-
- Epilogue : twenty- first- century statesmanship : difficult, possible, necessary.