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Henry Kissinger

Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
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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Fear Insecurity Nation Represent
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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Ambitious Care Career Important Thinking
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power
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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Deep Philosophy True
Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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Action Difference
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time
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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Experience Important World
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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Animal Man Policy Stupidity
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
Woe to the statesman whose arguments for entering a war are not as convincing at its end as they were at the beginning, Bismarck had cautioned.
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Argument Beginning End War
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories
The Art of War articulates a doctrine less of territorial conquest than of psychological dominance; it was the way the North Vietnamese fought America.
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Art Fight War

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