Leadership in Extreme Situations

Part I: General Part.- Introduction; M. Holenweger.- Facing Death: The Dynamics of Leadership and Group Behavior in Extreme Situations when Death Strikes without Warning; F. Kernic.- Crisis, Leadership, and Extreme Contexts; E.K. Stern.- Team Leadership in Extremis: Enschede, Uruzgan, Kathmandu and Beyond; J. Soeters T. Bijlsma.- Leadership, Morale and Cohesion: What Should be Changed?; E. Olivetta.- Leadership in Extreme Conditions and under Severe Stress: Case Study Analysis; A. Palma Rosinha et al.- Part II: Leadership in Extreme Situations and Military Settings.- The Role of Short Term Volunteers in Responding to Humanitarian Crises: Lessons from the 2010 Haiti Earthquake; E. Welty M. Bolton. Leadership Norms as a Form of Internal (Self-)Control of the Armed Forces; N. Douglas.- Cultural Dimensions of Violence in the Military; M. Tomforde.- Fighting for Strangers? Military Duty in Contemporary War; L. Ekman.- Social Navigation and the Emergence of Leadership: Tactical Command in the IDF Ground Forces in the Second Lebanon War; O. Weinshall Shachar, H. Cons Ponte et al.- Leadership in Extreme Situations: Case Study of an Indonesian Special Forces Soldier during the Boxing Day Tsunami; E.R. Hidayat, R.P. Susetyo.- Constructing 'Crisis Events' in Military Contexts - An Israeli Perspective; C. Padan.- Part III: Leadership in Extreme Situations and Lessons Learned/Education.- Leading in Extremis Situations: How Can Leaders Improve?; D. Dixon, M. Weeks.- How Leaders Learn from Experience in Extreme Situations: The Case of the U.S. Military in Takur Ghar, Afghanistan; C. Kayes et al.- What Difference Does a Difference Make? Considerations about Lessons Learned from Difficult Operational Situations; T. Heltberg, T. Jellesmark.- Officer Socialization as Prelude to in Extremis Leadership; S. Dalenberg.- Combat Leadership on Guadalcanal: In Extremis Leadership of the Japanese and American Soldiers in World War II; H. Kawano.- Magnanimous Valor in Arturo Prat (1848-1879): A Necessary Quality for Leadership in Extreme Situations; A. Gorrochotegui Martell.