Allure of toxic leaders
Allure of toxic leaders January 23, 2021 A modern state is made up of two imperatives: state sovereignty and national integration. It ceases to be a state in the true sense when any of the two is compromised. Leadership has critical implications for this nation-state. Its success leads to strength and prosperity; its failure to ominous fissures within the state. The US, in the guise of the Monroe and Stimson Doctrines, termed changes anywhere in the world as a challenge to US interests; 9/11 became a carte blanche to terrorize the Muslim world. Pierre Hassner encapsulated American unilatera...