Sentences with word «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.

Whereas «The Challenge of Peace» offered an extensive discussion of conscientious citizen objection to unjust uses of government power, Pavlischek instead emphasized the role of just war theory in statecraft and military planning.

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.

Robert B. Zoellick, President of the World Bank Group, «A Challenge of Economic Statecraft,» Speech at the Center for Global Development (Washington, DC: 2 April 2008).

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

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

«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.

«This is a clear break from 70 years of American 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.»

But something of its vision and daring, combined with wise statecraft, offer the only hope for mankind.

In her book Statecraft, published in 2002, Lady Thatcher wrote, «The blunt truth is that the rest of the European Union needs us more than we need them.»

Just Power argues that the promotion of justice should be the aim of modern statecraft, a belief not rooted in altruism, but in the conclusion that it is the only sustainable way that states can promote their national power and interests, and achieve security and stability in a globalised world.

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

To think otherwise suggests a vision of power and influence in which statecraft is more important than church - craft.

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

The current German politics of imposing austerity measures on the rest of Europe stems from the tradition of what Adrian Pabst memorably termed «Kantian morality of context-less duties, Weberian statecraft void of virtue, and Bismarckian quasi-military management of citizens through centralised welfare.»

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.

Geography, politics, public administration, and statecraft displaced theology.

... that no matter how wide the perspectives which the human mind may reach, how broad the loyalties which the human imagination may conceive, how universal the community which human statecraft may organize or how pure the aspirations of the saintliest idealist may be, there is no level of human moral or social achievement in which there is not some corruption of inordinate self - love.

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.

Nuclear weapons, they claim, are not weapons at all but «deterrents» — implements of a system of rational and responsible statecraft beyond the empire of law.

It is significant because it can shape the perceptions and responses of external actors in ways that traditionally theorized statecraft can not.

Andrew Harrop writes on Labour's new statecraft and Margaret Hodge MP and Dan Jarvis MP comment on the challenges facing a new generation of Labour MPs PLUS Mary Riddell speaks to Jim Murphy MP.

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

Russian statecraft continued to be guided by the centuries - old practice of bureaucratic rule that cast a wary eye on market forces.

Twenty - first century statecraft also requires that we build greater people - to - people relationships.

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.»

Liberal statecraft, he argues, should «promote not simply freedom, order, and prosperity,» but «the capacities and dispositions conducive to thoughtful participation in the activities of modern politics and civil society.»

Crusader Kings II has been praised for its emphasis on the «soft power» necessary in successful Statecraft — and translating this into playable metrics is no small achievement.

Their games can bring you from the start of the crusades through the end of the WWII; the company's most recent offering, Stellaris, will even take you hundreds of years into the future for galaxy - wide statecraft.

Gothenburg - born artist Loulou Cherinet's film Statecraft (2017) documents roundtable discussions on the poisonously ambiguous terms innanförskap (insidership) and utanförskap (outsidership), which have plagued Sweden's political battleground for the last decade.

Mr Ahmed believes that al - Qaeda is «an instrument of Western statecraft, a covert operations tool».

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.

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.

He was on the side of reason, myth, splendor, and virtue, in the hope that such vital elements of life might «still trickle down to irrigate the dust - bowl of modern economic Statecraft.»

There's a certain purity and simplicity to a lot of fairytales, and even when they focus on Kings and Princesses, they don't spend a lot of time on statecraft or war.

Terry L. Deibel Former professor of foreign affairs strategy at the National War College for more than three decades, author of four books, including «Foreign Affairs Strategy: Logic for American Statecraft» (2007), which elaborated what became known as the «Deibel Model,» of developing diplomatic strategies.

The only trouble is, while she had previously looked to established scientific authorities and peer reviewed literature for counsel, her new found skepticism seems to come courtesy of more politicized sources — as evidenced in her book 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).

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.»

The game of dominating the world's resources, nation - states and alliances is like a combination of Go and chess, with the threat of military conquest or defeat always hovering over the statecraft and financial game.

With geopolitical trends shaping the world, companies need to develop many of the skills traditionally associated with diplomacy and statecraft.

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