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Summary: Zimbabwe has collapsed, and the world must act now to keep it from deteriorating into Somalia-scale chaos, according to U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer. … Personality profile of Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe by Aubrey Immelman and Adam Beatty, Unit for the Study of Personality in Politics. … For the sixth consecutive year, Iraq was the deadliest place for journalists in 2008, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.



Summary: Aubrey Immelman, research director of the Unit for the Study of Personality in Politics, has published two articles in the St. Cloud Times in which he provides an analysis of his primary concerns regarding the personality-based limitations of prospective Obama and McCain presidencies.


Oct 26th, 2008

Summary: On the eighth day of his write-in campaign against U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann in Minnesota’s 6th Congressional District, Aubrey Immelman, in line with his focus on national security, reported that Iraq’s largest Sunni Arab political party suspended all dealings with U.S. civilian and military personnel after U.S. and Iraqi forces carried out a raid in which a senior official of Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi’s Iraqi Islamic Party was killed. He also published links to personality profiles of presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama, with implications for their likely leadership style as president, developed at the Unit for the Study of Personality in Politics, which he directs.



Summary: On the fifth day of his write-in campaign against U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann in Minnesota’s 6th Congressional District, Aubrey Immelman noted that Chuck Norris, in an article published Oct. 21, 2008 at HumanEvents.com, cited research conducted at Immelman’s Unit for the Study of Personality in Politics.