Leadership in an Interdependent World by Ghiță Ionescu examines the political leadership of five major world statesmen—Konrad Adenauer, Charles de Gaulle, Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, and Mikhail Gorbachev—within the context of an increasingly interdependent international system. Through comparative analysis, Ionescu explores how each leader navigated global challenges, shaped forei…
We are living in an age when people and peoples with an interest in politics are particulary concerned by the question whether their states are losing their absolute sovereighty and are being constrained to submit to transnational, indeed now global interdependence. This book may have the calming effect of showing them with example to contemporary statesmanship that there is nothing either new,…