Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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It is one of history’s ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.
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Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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In effect, none of the most important countries which must build a new world order have had any experience with the multi-state system that is emerging. Never before has a new world order had to be assembled from so many different perceptions, or on so global a scale.
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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.
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In short, the end justifies the means.
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Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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The goal of the tribute system was to foster deference, not to extract economic benefit or to dominate foreign societies militarily.
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Chinese thinkers developed strategic thought that placed a premium on victory through psychological advantage and preached the avoidance of direct conflict.
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If Chinese exceptionalism represented the claims of a universal empire, Japanese exceptionalism sprang from the insecurities of an island nation borrowing heavily from its neighbor, but fearful of being dominated by it.
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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God
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What distinguishes Sun Tzu from Western writers on strategy is the emphasis on the psychological and political elements over the purely military.
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