A Harvard study has shown that in fifteen cases in history where a rising and an established power interacted, ten ended in war.
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Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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A Harvard study has shown that in fifteen cases in history where a rising and an established power interacted, ten ended in war.
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Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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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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If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.
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The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
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Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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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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Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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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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Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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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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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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