“Probably the most important thing to know about [Mark] Rutte … is that he is a very controlled person,” FP’s Caroline de Gruyter writes in her profile of the Dutch prime minister who will soon lead NATO. “He often gives people the impression that he is spontaneous, taking things lightly as they come. But under the surface of the easygoing, smiling Dutchman who cycles to the office, apple in hand, there is a lot more going on.”
The profiles in this edition of Flash Points go beyond the image that global power brokers such as Rutte seek to project and aim to uncover how they think, what drives them, and how their policies and ideologies could influence international politics
https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/06/23/profiles-global-leaders-international-power-brokers/
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