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Leaders attract followers and utilize the resulting power to determine national and international outcomes. Power is accumulated in the interaction between leaders and followers featuring different combinations of coercion, charisma, traditional authority, economic rewards, or appeals to identity, ideology, and nationalism. The first six weeks covers leaders as diverse as Eisenhower, LBJ, Thatcher, Huey Long, Trump, and Hitler. The second half of the course concentrates on the 20 men and women who have largely determined Southeast Asia's post-colonial history: Ho Chi Minh; Sihanouk and Pol Pot; Soekarno and Suharto; Marcos, Aquino and Duterte; Aung San Suu Kyi; Lee Kuan Yew and Mahathir. Students from all concentrations are encouraged to participate and their term paper topics are not limited to Southeast Asian leaders. <a href="http://bit.ly/1bebp5s" target="_blank">Click here to see evaluations, syllabi, and faculty bios</a>