Sentences with phrase «for statecraft»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

No place for poets Lee's managerial approach to statecraft produces great economic progress at considerable social cost.

One wise writer on matters of statecraft [Machiavelli, The Prince, chapter eight] rightly said that if it is necessary to resort to certain brutalities for the sake of realizing a certain political goal, they must be carried out in the most energetic fashion and in the briefest time because the masses will not tolerate prolonged application of brutality....

For this reason one can not be truly Catholic without respecting and seeking to understand the record of the tradition, and one can not have a genuinely Catholic contemporary understanding of just war without a grasp of the Church's normative tradition on just war and its place in the theory of statecraft and international order.

for politics is statecraft.

Since the struggle between the major powers will be with us for decades to come, he felt that a wise statecraft must take into account the collective egoisms of nations and the ideal of a tolerable mutuality.

Over the centuries he argues Christians «have seldom taken Islam with the seriousness it deserves or recognised it for what it is - a religion in the biblical tradition in which piety is wedded to statecraft.»

I spent my time in statecraft, my flying chariot, and wrangles with my headstrong daughter, Princess Ariana (eternal apologies to my sister for bossiness).

Heath, for Marquand, «was a whig imperialist of sorts»; he did his awkward best to practice the politics of inclusion, power - sharing was one the central themes of his statecraft and he sought to run the economy on a more explicit form of social partnership, embracing the state, organised labour and business.

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

Peter Harris is a doctoral candidate in Government at the University of Texas in Austin, where he is also a graduate fellow of the Clements Center for History, Strategy and Statecraft.

Two introductory chapters for Conservative and Labour leaders — there is a slightly different approach by the editors of Liberal leaders — consider what constitutes «Statecraft» — a framework for assessing Party Leaders.

The early Total War titles carved a unique place for the series in PC gaming, with huge turn - based campaign games of statecraft, empire - building, technological development, diplomacy and expansion.

Despite its hawkish title, the Total War series strives for historical authenticity, and players spend more time on statecraft, finances, and diplomacy than rallying troops on the field.

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.