Policy Making, Crisis Management, and Leadership Intelligence

Leadership analysts support policymakers by producing and delivering written and oral assessments of foreign leaders and key decision-makers. This chapter explores how the foreign policy of a state is strongly influenced by the personality of the president and the type of government in office. Some case studies are referred and analyzed, such as the Gulf War of 1991. The authors apply a new framework of analysis, called Orientism Management (OM), that proposes 10 different knowledge management types.