Her book project, "Intimate Rivals or Enemies of the Nation: Radical Right Movements and Transformative Populism" explains the penetration of right wing populism into the mainstream and the variation in its transformative effect on political systems.
Sheila Smith, author of Intimate Rivals: Japanese Domestic Politics and a Rising China, said policymakers in Washington were concerned the parade could derail a tentative re-approximation between Tokyo and Beijing and potentially destabilise the region.
Then come scores of works by or about Roosevelt's intimates, rivals, military commanders and, by no means least, his wife.
No special effect, however costly, and no closeup, however intimate, can rival the layering of oils into a sticky paintscape, although, Lord knows, directors have tried.
In an interview, Cisco CEO John Chambers once remarked on his intimate knowledge of rival CEOs.
Although Freud had two older half-brothers, his strongest if also most ambivalent attachment seems to have been to a nephew, John, one year his senior, who provided the model of intimate friend and hated rival that Freud reproduced often at later stages of his life.
In 1962, powerful Hollywood columnist Hedda Hopper held a strange and intimate dinner party, hosting rival movie stars Joan Crawford and Bette Davis for a truce meal at her home on Tropical Avenue in Beverly Hills, an elegant brick colonial Hopper winkingly called "the house that fear built". .
Significantly, many of the facts in the film are based on the first three chapters of James Naughtie's book The Rivals: The Intimate Portrait of a Political Marriage.
In the summer of 1160, Foliot wrote to Pope Alexander III, whom the king had just recognised as pope instead of Alexander's rival, Victor IV, intimating that the canonisation of King Edward the Confessor, which had been delayed by Alexander's predecessor Innocent II, might be warranted as a reward for Henry's recognition of Alexander.
In Stalin's world, both friends and rivals, intimates and unknown millions, were, in Nikita Khrushchev's words, merely "temporary people".
Social psychologists have long argued that positive, intimate contact between members of rival groups across an extended period can produce compromise.
