Sentences with phrase «statecraft as»

As long as groups pursue goals that can not be reduced to economics, as long as divisions of friend and foe reflect differences of ethnicity, political principle, and religious faith, not just collisions of material interests, there will be a need for statecraft as well as for international technology and trade treaties.

«The grandeur of politics» — a phrase that probably draws either amazed incredulity or harsh guffaws — is from George F. Will's Statecraft as Soulcraft, first presented as his Godkin lectures at Harvard.

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Such flowery verbiage is not unusual at National Cathedral, conceived early in the twentieth century as an American version of Westminster Abbey to enshrine the spiritual achievements of American Christianity, statecraft and civil religion.

It should be noted, however, that war continued, and continues, to be an instrument of statecraft — so long as it does not involve the use or threatened use of nuclear weapons.

Arguably they are elements in the prudent exercise of statecraft, but including them as specific requirements of the jus ad bellum is a comparatively recent development.

Because of the cultural changes of modernity, however, the just war tradition has been carried, developed, and applied not as a single cultural consensus but as distinct streams in Catholic canon law and theology, Protestant religious thought, secular philosophy, international law, military theory and practice, and the experience of statecraft.

Statecraft is important, but good cultures and good laws, important as they are, merely put more resilient shackles on the Gerasene demoniac.

First, a conceptual framework that understands military force as a tool of statecraft is taken for granted.

Other funding has been directed to institutional issues such as considerations surrounding the role of the armed forces in statecraft and nation - building.

Of her recent, and widely praised, speech attacking Trump, the New York Times wrote, «Speaking in a steady, modulated tone but lobbing some of the most fiery lines of her presidential campaign, Mrs. Clinton painted Mr. Trump as a reckless, childish and uninformed amateur who was playing at the game of global statecraft.»

Leviathan ranks as a classic western work on statecraft comparable to Machiavelli's The Prince.

The mirrors - for - princes genre, whose most famous examples include Machiavelli's The Prince and Al - Ghazali's Nasihat al muluk, operated as a poetic form of political critique in both Christian and Muslim lands during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance while carving out a space for statecraft at a time when most scholarship was devoted to religious affairs.

This publication brings together the writing of preeminent scholars and commentators using the genre of medieval advice literature as a starting point to discuss fate and fortune versus governance, advice for female nobility, and an Indian television drama as a form of translation of statecraft.

Over the last decade, the United States has experienced an Energy Revolution, which has allowed it to increasingly use energy as a tool of statecraft.

While snatching politically sensitive documents as part of an espionage plot might be part of statecraft and intelligence efforts (rightly or wrongly), Motherboard's Rid points out that leaking those documents (and potentially manipulated ones) to a global audience represents an unprecedented and dangerous attempt by a foreign government that is openly hostile to U.S. policies and interests.