MARTIN WESTLAKE is Head of the Unit for Institutional Relations in the European Commission (DG X) and an Associate Member of the Centre for Legislative Studies at the University of Hull. Dr Westlake has published widely on the European Union and its institutions. His books include Britain's Emerging Euro-Elite?, A Modern Guide to the European Parliament, and The Commission and the Parliament: Partners and Rivals in the European Policy-Making Process and British Politics and the European Elections 1994.

'...lively, highly readable but authoritative discussion of its subject matter.' - Anthony Lemon, Mansfield College, Oxford '...well-conceived and stimulating book.' - Scott Webster, The Ethnic Conflict

• Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Leaders or Led? M.Westlake Mikhail Gorbachev: Systemic Transformer; A.Brown F.W. de Klerk: Enlightened Conservative; D.Welsh & J.Spence Achille Occhetto: Democratic Explorer; M.Bull General Wojciech Jaruzelski: Hardline Patriot; J.Fitzmaurice Neil Kinnock: Loyalist Reformer; M.Westlake Adolfo Suarez: Democratic Dark Horse; S.Parlier Conclusions: Vision and Will; M.Westlake Index

MARTIN WESTLAKE is Head of the Unit for Institutional Relations in the European Commission (DG X) and an Associate Member of the Centre for Legislative Studies at the University of Hull. Dr Westlake has published widely on the European Union and its institutions. His books include Britain's Emerging Euro-Elite?, A Modern Guide to the European Parliament, and The Commission and the Parliament: Partners and Rivals in the European Policy-Making Process and British Politics and the European Elections 1994.

'...lively, highly readable but authoritative discussion of its subject matter.' - Anthony Lemon, Mansfield College, Oxford '...well-conceived and stimulating book.' - Scott Webster, The Ethnic Conflict

• Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Leaders or Led? M.Westlake Mikhail Gorbachev: Systemic Transformer; A.Brown F.W. de Klerk: Enlightened Conservative; D.Welsh & J.Spence Achille Occhetto: Democratic Explorer; M.Bull General Wojciech Jaruzelski: Hardline Patriot; J.Fitzmaurice Neil Kinnock: Loyalist Reformer; M.Westlake Adolfo Suarez: Democratic Dark Horse; S.Parlier Conclusions: Vision and Will; M.Westlake Index

MARTIN WESTLAKE is Head of the Unit for Institutional Relations in the European Commission (DG X) and an Associate Member of the Centre for Legislative Studies at the University of Hull. Dr Westlake has published widely on the European Union and its institutions. His books include Britain's Emerging Euro-Elite?, A Modern Guide to the European Parliament, and The Commission and the Parliament: Partners and Rivals in the European Policy-Making Process and British Politics and the European Elections 1994.

'...lively, highly readable but authoritative discussion of its subject matter.' - Anthony Lemon, Mansfield College, Oxford '...well-conceived and stimulating book.' - Scott Webster, The Ethnic Conflict

• Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Leaders or Led? M.Westlake Mikhail Gorbachev: Systemic Transformer; A.Brown F.W. de Klerk: Enlightened Conservative; D.Welsh & J.Spence Achille Occhetto: Democratic Explorer; M.Bull General Wojciech Jaruzelski: Hardline Patriot; J.Fitzmaurice Neil Kinnock: Loyalist Reformer; M.Westlake Adolfo Suarez: Democratic Dark Horse; S.Parlier Conclusions: Vision and Will; M.Westlake Index