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.
Teasing Out Policy Insight From a Character Profile
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