For some politicians and business leaders, power can become an intoxicating drug, and can affect their actions and decision-making in a most serious way. The an

For many politicians, power seems to go to their head, and becomes a heady drug affecting every action they take. The Greeks called it hubris, where the hero wi

In The Icarus Syndrome, Peter Beinart tells a tale as old as the Greeks - a story about the seductions of success. Beinart describes Washington on the eve of th

This study of illness in heads of government between 1901 and 2007 considers how illness and therapy - both physical and mental - affect the process of governme

Investigating the societal, economic, financial and reputational costs of hubristic leadership, with insights into the characteristics and causes of this phenom