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Medieval Ethiopian Diplomacy with Latin Europe
Verena Krebs authored a unique and rich historical text on the rationale and motivation of Ethiopian leadership to send off international delegations, particularly to Europe, in the Middle Ages. “Medieval Ethiopian Kingship, Craft, and Diplomacy with Latin Europe” (2021, Palgrave) is extensively researched. The author has a PhD from both Germany and Ethiopia. For historians, […]
Kissinger’s Leadership
Henry Kissinger’s best selling “Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy” (2022) revolves around six detailed biographies through which leadership is analyzed. The biographies are interesting, and his access to these people presents unique insights. However, the “so what” aspect of leadership from these six biographies is underdeveloped. Notes: “Leadership is most essential during periods of […]
Tags: #Character #Courage #Creativity #Intuition #Kissinger #Leadership #Strategy
How The West Came To Rule
This is a 2015 book that seeks to reorient the history of capitalism by Anievas and Nisancioglu. Published by Pluto Press, “How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism” offers depth of conceptual, historical and theoretical analysis to challenge dominant narratives (following the financial crisis, which – if the idea persisted – […]
Tags: #Capitalism #History #Politics #Power
Dare to Lead
This genre of book is not common on my shelf, the motivational / inspirational mass market type. I was given a few books after a recent career shift and am approaching them with a mindset of how I can develop better leadership skills. Brene Brown’s Dare to Lead (2019) was one. In the notes below, […]
Tags: #Inspiration #Leadership #Learning #Motivational #recognition
The Dawn Of Eurasia
Bruno Macaes’ 2018 book, The Dawn of Eurasia: On the Trail of the New World Order, is mostly a travelog of Central Asia with a brief geopolitical introduction. Like his other book, it does not sweeten with time (similar to another of his books I read / reviewed). In the moment interesting, but approaching a […]
Tags: #Central Asia #Eurasia #International Relations #New World Order #Politics
On Grand Strategy
Written by a Yale professor who co-taught courses on grand strategy for nearly two decades, this book (Grand Strategy, 2019) had significant potential to bring together years of teaching into an accessible book (published by a mass market press, not academic press). John Lewis Gaddis is extremely well read, and from diverse fields. The book […]
Tags: #Grand Strategy #John Lewis Gaddis #On Grand Strategy #Power #Strategic Studies #Strategy
About me
Logan Cochrane
Logan is a Professor at HBKU in the College of Public Policy. He is an Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences and an Adjunct Professor at Hawassa University (Institute for Policy and Development Research). Over the last twenty years, he has worked in Afghanistan, Benin, Burundi, Canada, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Logan acts as a consultant for governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations, seeking to create bridges between research and practice.
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