Leadership in an interdependent world : the state[s]manship of Adenauer, De Gaulle, Thatcher, Reagan, and Gorbachev

Offering an interpretation of the era of modern global politics, this book demonstrates how, in a transnational technological society, the economic and political sovereignty of individual states becomes increasingly illusory. This book is an inquiry into modern statesmanship or, as the title indicates, into statesmanship in the age of interdependence. In form, it consists of an examination of the statesmanship of five people, namely Konrad Adenauer, Charles de Gaulle, Mrs Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, with special reference to the way in which This book shows that there is nothing new or wrong with the change in ultimate political responsibility, with examples of contemporary statesmanship. It attempts to explain that sovereignty has been increasingly relativized and interdependence is the dominant fact of life of modern politics.