They include: • Conscientiousness Dependability, achievement orientation, and perseverance within the scope of one's responsibilities • Extroversion Open, accessible attitude, as opposed to remaining insulated from group activities • Dominance Appropriate use of authority in a system of inequalities • Self-confidence Comfort in one's own skills and abilities for managing Recent research has also suggested that regardless of cultural contingencies, effective leaders tend to display intelligence, energy, emotional stability, and openness to...

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Breaking testimony from Chile's former intelligence chief, proved Pinochet's, direct role in the command of the internal intelligence agency and the activities of the military. ... After review of international law and jurisdiction principles the universal jurisdiction principle upholds that foreign states are not limited to extradite or prosecute criminals over "gross" offenses and human rights treaties can be enforced extraterritorially. ...

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Diplomacy as the political process by which political entities, generally states, conduct official relations with one another within the international environment, performs distinct functions in foreign policy that makes it indispensable to international society. ... Another function is that of intelligence gathering, where ambassadors collect information about the host state, its conditions, developments and policies, and report them directly to the home government. ... This has become increasingly complicated with the expansion of the scope of foreign policy making and globalization. .....

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The use of mercenaries has been historically a constant phenomenon till almost the end of the XX century, when their activities were criminalized by the international community. Parallel to that phenomenon European States, during their colonial expansion over all continents, authorized two other forms of similar violence by non state actors: the corsairs and the colonial merchant companies, such as the East India Company or the Hudson Bay Company. At the threshold of the XXI century we are witnessing a similar phenomenon. Although mercenaries have not completely disappeared "private milit...

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Coming out of World War II, the government of the United States fostered an inflated view of its capabilities in foreign affairs. Once they had begun funding the French struggle against the nationalist movement in Vietnam, the Americans saw an imminent opportunity to possibly apply their own colonial model there, but "called upon the French or the Chinese for the raw intelligence information that informed their reports to Washington," (Bradley 94). ...

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