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...Uighur custom. "The Uighurs are the very bottom of the heap economically in China," says Dru Gladney, a professor of anthropology at Pomona College in California and an author of numerous articles and books on Xinjiang. "There's a very deep sense of frustration, especially among the young, unemployed men...
Other parts of China are witnessing similar disaffection among angry young men. But Xinjiang is like Tibet in that it has a sizable non-Han population. Unrest in these two regions conjures up one of the Chinese leadership's worst nightmares: the rise of a separatist movement that would break up the country. Given the enormous economic and social challenges China faces, Beijing values stability above all and will do practically anything to maintain...
Charismatic leaders, Weber argued, inspire devotion; they are change agents. But not every society wants or needs charismatic leaders, and some have reason to shun them. The Big Men of Africa and the caudillos of Latin America have often been charismatic, and their gift to their people was not grace but authoritarianism. So can you be a leader without charisma? Sure. Just follow these tips...
...good looks and 25¢ will get you a phone call. Australia has a higher proportion of naturally rugged men than any other country on Earth, but combined, its two most recent Prime Ministers, John Howard and Kevin Rudd, have the sex appeal of a church mouse. Who cares? Both have made tough calls--Howard to back the U.S. through thick and thin after 9/11, Rudd to apologize for the treatment of Australia's Aborigines--and they've been stewards of one of the world's longest-lasting economic booms...
...once enjoined an audience to "never give in; never, never, never give in," and he knew whereof he spoke. Churchill spent the 1930s in the political wilderness, warning of the need to rearm against the Nazi threat, and was treated as a bit of a joke by smaller men...