The peacemakers : leadership lessons from twentieth-century statesmanship /: leadership lessons from twentieth-century statesmanship. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Peace makers; Leadership lessons from twentieth-century statesmanship
• Further Information: Note: Bruce W. Jentleson.
• Authors: Jentleson, Bruce W, 1951-
• 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.
• Publisher Details: New York : W.W. Norton & Company
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxviii, 372 pages)
• Subjects: 327.1/720922; World politics -- 1945-1989; World politics -- 1989-; Statesmen -- Biography; Political activists -- Biography; Political leadership -- History -- 20th century; Political leadership -- History -- 21st century; Peace -- Case studies; Reconciliation -- Case studies; Leadership -- Case studies; Leadership; Peace; Political activists; Political leadership; Reconciliation; Statesmen; World politics; Biographies; Case studies; Biographies; Case studies; History; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780393249576; 0393249573
• Related ISBNs: 9780393249569; 0393249565
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.