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.
HENRY KISSINGERThere can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Don’t be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.
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in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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History is the memory of States.
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A more immediate issue concerns North Korea, to which Bismarck’s nineteenth-century aphorism surely applies: We live in a wondrous time, in which the strong is weak because of his scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.
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in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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To undertake a journey on a road never before traveled requires character and courage: character because the choice is not obvious; courage because the road will be lonely at first. And the statesman must then inspire his people to persist in the endeavor.
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Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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The art of crisis management is to raise the stakes to where the adversary will not follow, but in a manner that avoids a tit for tat.
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For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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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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