Sentences with phrase «of statecraft»

The tools of statecraft at home are distraction and anesthetization while abroad the Politics of Empire demand exploitation via coersion, subterfuge, economic subjugation via corporatist organization like the World Bank and IMF, or plain old, flat out violence.

To be clear, I am not claiming that state actors do not also engage in more traditionally understood forms of statecraft such as hard - nosed arm - twisting and horse - trading.

Lincoln, he believes, renewed the theory of statecraft by insisting that «ultimate moral questions did not admit of relativistic interpretations,» while knowing at the same time that the attempt to right moral wrongs may have tragic consequences and almost certainly will not achieve unqualified success.

Every now and then, a party leader gets the chance to make a name for him or herself to rise to a level of statecraft.

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.

It requires not just artistic skills but also an understanding of statecraft at the highest level.

What secrets of statecraft will they learn?

Singapore has achieved this dazzling growth by stretching its meager means and using some extraordinary techniques of statecraft.

Thanks to this thorough and detailed account, we can better understand not just the talent and dedication of the Mad Men - era professionals who sold the Moon to a global public, but also the larger transformation of statecraft into stagecraft, and the enduring and irreversible transformation of the public sphere into an enterprise of image creation, and manipulation.»

They are God's children, exiled by the Creed, Christians made non-Christian when the faith was forced through the sieve of statecraft.

A Catholic politics never seeks to be a sacred politics, never proposes a full and complete integration of statecraft with soulcraft.

The Middle Ages somewhat underplayed this alien aspect of statecraft, which Luther later overstressed to disastrous effect.

The question whether or not the novelty of the nuclear threat has actually reduced what seemed to be a perennial principle of statecraft to an ephemeral configuration poses again the dilemma that casts doubt upon our understanding of history and renders hazardous our political action.

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.

This form of statecraft doesn't involve force or war.

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.

While most are aware of the publication of Owning the Weather by 2025 - a published artifact of statecraft presented to the Air Force in 1996 — I want to thank Josefina Fraile Martin of Spain, whose excellent open letter to the US military I have read and assisted in its translation.

Recently, instances of statecraft through cyberspace have captured headlines worldwide — but the terms and concepts used are not known to enough people.

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.

«The Divine Right of Kings» is a hoax — nothing more than a tool of statecraft that has been blunted by democracy.

But since such wars have become pervasive, an adequate theory of statecraft must take diverse theories of causation into account.

Gaddis observes: «That, however, was simply a restatement of what Eisenhower had long since concluded: that the advent of thermonuclear weapons meant that war could no longer be an instrument of statecraft — rather the survival of states required that there be no war at all.»

«And one is not surprised at this, because under Fayose falsehood has been elevated to the level of statecraft, sustained by machinery of state.

Total War: Warhammer is a combination of real - time battles and turn - based sandbox campaign game of statecraft, politics and empire building.

He meant that human nature is essentially communal and is brought to fruition in the cooperative conventions of the polis, with its vital and complex interdependencies of private, familial, and public associations, and that the arts of statecraft should be in service to these social goods.

Nevertheless, within those pages are indeed the secrets of statecraft.

And, how does the employment of emotions in diplomatic relations differ from traditional forms of statecraft?

By concentrating on these emotional responses I was able to focus on situations where the stakes were high — and thus states were unlikely to act frivolously — and, furthermore, there were implications for state behaviour that differed from traditional understandings of statecraft.

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.

The tools of statecraft are ever the same.

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

In this sense, immigration policy can be considered a tool of statecraft, a way of maintaining and expanding national strength and influence.

Now in its 15th year, the award - winning Total War ™ continues to offer a unique combination of huge - scale real - time battles and an addictive turn - based campaign game of statecraft, politics and empire building.

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.