Abstract
This chapter builds up a detailed, convincing case for the importance of reconceptualisation of political leadership before a valid and rigorous study of political leadership can be conducted. It establishes a new framework and methodology to provide a useful tool to understand the role of political leadership either as a driver of, or an impediment to, regional community-building. With the help of data collected from fieldwork research, as well as document analysis of primary and secondary resources, this chapter proposes five facets of leadership as critical to community-building, namely, political will; the capacity of individual leaders; state capacity; legitimacy; and summitry.
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His writings include Mitrany, D. (1933) The Progress of International Government; Mitrany, D. (1943) A Working Peace System; Mitrany, D. (1948) The Functional Approach to World Organization; and Mitrany, D. (1965) The Prospect of Integration: Federation or Functional?
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Mohamed Pero, S.D. (2019). Political Leadership in Regional Community-Building: Developing Research Agenda. In: Leadership in Regional Community-Building. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7976-5_2
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