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Bound to Follow? Leadership and Followership in the Gulf Conflict
Andrew Fenton Cooper, Richard A. Higgott, and Kim Richard Nossal take issue with the common view that the Gulf conflict provides an example of successful American leadership in international politics. They argue that if leadership is examined from the perspective of the follower instead of the leader, the American role in the Gulf war emerges in a different light.
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