LEADER PROFILE: MUAMMAR GADDAFI

Leader Profile: Muammar Gaddafi



Leader Profile: Muammar Gaddafi of Libya

Introduction

Flamboyant, eccentric, intelligent, visionary, dictator, are few words that sum up the personality of Gaddafi, the incumbent Libyan leader, who has been in power for 41 years now - easily the longest tenure in service - for any of the African or an Arab leader (Arnold, 2006).

He has transformed himself as one of the most important figure in Arab and African politics, since he first rose to prominence after leading a bloodless coup to oust King Idris I in 1969. Most of the historians claim that Gaddafi was the mastermind behind the coup, in which five military officers participated. At the time of the coup, he was a junior officer. He made rapid progress in his military career due to his brilliant skills and abilities, leading him to the title of Colonel Gaddafi, the title he has since held (Arnold, 2006).

Pan-Arabism: A Peculiar Leadership Trait

Gaddafi has always been a proud man, who has enshrined within himself, the traditional tribal values, distinctive to the Bedouins, living in tents. His love for the revival of the Islamic values in Libya, without fracturing the socialist fabric of the country has met with severe criticism from the Western leaders and some of the Eastern orthodox monarchs, who are more lenient towards the Western policies. Gaddafi embraced pan-Arabism of the late Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser and tried unsuccessfully to merge Libya, Egypt and Syria into a federation. A similar attempt to join Libya and Tunisia ended in bitterness (Davis, 2007).

The Paranoid

Over the years it has produced a world egocentric, rigid, intolerant and completely narcissistic, which if you add oil and gas magazine gives an idea of ??where you live now Libya. It is not only paranoid, but paranoid with success and power, which is much more dangerous because it can give vent to their beliefs of superiority, his narcissism and his fears. Gaddafi in psychiatry suffers what is known as a pathological development of personality. He suffers from delusions of persecution and is mistrustful and suspicious of all around him (Davis, 2007).

As for similarities with other leaders, Cabrera notes that "his face expressionless very reminiscent of what it was in Saddam Hussein his final days, nothing to do with Mubarak and another on the other hand also very similar to North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il" . Enrique González Duro, a psychiatrist at the Hospital Gregorio Maranon de Madrid, opines that Gaddafi has a profile similar to that of Pol Pot, Cambodian dictator who caused one of the biggest genocides of history, "but not political ideology." Proof of this is, according to the specialist, its Green Paper, a political work of three volumes written by the leader between 1975 and 1979, which presents the ideas of his political thinking. "Those who have read say that is a string of meaningless nonsense." Dr. González Duro believes that the days are numbered Gaddafi, while stressing that the president's idea is to "transfer power to ...