Teasing Out Policy Insight From a Character Profile

For decades, analysts at the Central Intelligence Agency and the Department of Defense have compiled psychological assessments of hostile leaders like Muammar el-Qaddafi of Libya and Kim Jong-il of North Korea. This type of political profile is most important in cases where you have a leader who dominates the society and can act without constraint, says Jerrold Post, M.D., clinical professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in the School of Medicine and Health Sciences.

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