Leadership accountability in a globalizing world / Christopher Williams.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-258) and index.

Introduction -- Part 1: An era of accountability -- Political violence -- Political and economic corruption -- Environmental security -- Immunity and extradition -- The pattern of accountability -- Implications -- Part 2: Global feuding: Regime change and retribution -- The context -- The public questioning -- The formal forums -- The outcomes -- The explanations -- Retributive accountability -- Implications -- Part 3: Social impetus: Deceit, evolution and ICT -- Evolutionary explanations -- How leaders 'do' harm -- Why populations react -- Why now? -- The significance of ICT -- A social impetus-trends theory -- Global intelligence -- Implications -- Part 4: Personalizing protest: Global civil society -- The accountability NGOs -- Strategies and social sanctions -- Hasten slowly -- Implications -- Part 5: Prognoses: Changing relationships -- Future concerns -- Leadership intergrity and moral authority -- A global shift in moral authority -- Direct democratic accountability -- Implications -- Part 6: Conclusion: The accountability webs -- Personalized up-system accountability -- The retributive aspect -- The evolutionary-technology synergy -- The personalization of protest -- Changing power relations.

"From research at tel UN University Leadership Academy, this innovative forward-looking analysis identifies the precedents for global action, and explains how errant leaders become locked into deceit. Deceit, which fuels a challenge rooted in our evolutionary psyche, and can lead to civil society action. Eventually 'direct democratic accountability' may supersede voting systems, and moral authority may shift from West to East. A new Global Leadership Responsibility Index puts America below China, Japan and South Korea. If legitimate leadership accountability fails, global feuding could increase. The lessons are for those learning to be, or learning to question, leaders."--Jacket.