The Modern Prince; What Leaders Need to Know Now

by Carnes Lord

• ISBN13: 9780300100075
• ISBN10: 0300100078
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2003-08-11
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

The role of leaders is never more crucial than during times of war. The ability to inspire confidence and communicate resolution is essential to the national interest. The requirements of leadership are not limited to military affairs: citizens look to leaders to guide the economy, protect the laws, and safeguard national values. Leadership has never been simple, but it is even more complicated in the age of mass democracy: globalization, the power of the media, and the constraints of bureaucracy are among the many challenges facing leaders at the beginning of the twenty-first century. What do leaders need to know in order to be effective? Carnes Lord--an eminent political scientist who has held a number of high-level positions in the United States government--here offers witty and trenchant counsel to both leaders and the citizens who elect them. Exploring such issues as leadership in war and crises, diplomacy, the use of secret intelligence, the role of political advisors, and the media, Lord enumerates the major challenges confronting modern leaders and offe

Author Biography

Carnes Lord is professor of strategy at the Naval War College.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
ONE Why Leadership Is Still Possible	1	(10)
TWO Why Leadership Is Still Necessary	11	(10)
THREE Leadership and Statecraft	21	(12)
FOUR On States	33	(7)
FIVE On Regimes	40	(10)
SIX Elites and How to Manage Them	50	(9)
SEVEN Modern Founders	59	(10)
EIGHT Executive Power and Constitutional Democracy	69	(17)
NINE Democracy Without Leaders	86	(10)
TEN Autocratic Democracy	96	(10)
ELEVEN What Goals Leaders Pursue	106	(7)
TWELVE What Tools Leaders Have Available	113	(3)
THIRTEEN Administration	116	(9)
FOURTEEN Law	125	(9)
FIFTEEN Education and Culture	134	(7)
SIXTEEN Economics	141	(10)
SEVENTEEN Diplomacy	151	(8)
EIGHTEEN Force	159	(10)
NINETEEN Intelligence	169	(11)
TWENTY Communication	180	(12)
TWENTY-ONE On Strategy	192	(8)
TWENTY-TWO On Crisis Management	200	(7)
TWENTY-THREE Advice and Decision	207	(8)
TWENTY-FOUR Leadership and Politics	215	(6)
TWENTY-FIVE Why Leadership Depends on the Times	221	(4)
TWENTY-SIX Exhortation to Preserve Democracy from the Barbarians	225	(8)
Notes	233	(32)
Acknowledgments	265	(2)
Index	267