Assessment of personality and leadership: content analytic techniques. Studying Canadian leaders at a distance - - Political leadership and the democratic peace: the operational code of Prime Minister Tony Blair - - The 1996 Russian presidential candidates: a content analysis of motivational configuration and conceptual/ integrative complexity - - The personality and leadership style of President Khatami: implications for the future of Iranian political reform. Profiling the political personality: psychodiagnostic and psychobiographical approaches. Linking leadership style to policy: how prime ministers influence the decision-making process - - Kings, queens, and sultans: empirical studies of political leadership in European hereditary monarchies - - Mao Zedong's narcissistic personality disorder and China's road to disaster - - Profiling Russian leaders from a psychohistorical and psychobiographical perspective - - Benjamin Netanyahu: a psychological profile using behavior analysis. The cultural context: applications from east to west. Building the war economy and rebuilding postwar Japan: a profile of pragmatic nationalist Nobusuke Kishi - - When and why do hard-liners become soft? An examination of Israeli Prime Ministers Shamir, Rabin, Peres, and Netanyahu - - Predicting the performance of leaders in parliamentary systems: New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange - - Self-presentation of political leaders in Germany: the case of Helmut Kohl - - The comparative psychoanalytic study of political leaders: John McCain and the limits of trait psychology.