A Harvard study has shown that in fifteen cases in history where a rising and an established power interacted, ten ended in war.
HENRY KISSINGERIn his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice. We are at such a juncture.
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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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Can governmental orders be invented from scratch by intelligent thinkers, or is the range of choice limited by underlying organic and cultural realities (the Burkean view)?
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If chess is about the decisive battle, wei qi is about the protracted campaign. The chess player aims for total victory. The wei qi player seeks relative advantage.
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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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in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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A country whose security depends on producing a genius in each generation sets itself a task no society has ever met.
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Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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For Roosevelt, if a nation was unable or unwilling to act to defend its own interests, it could not expect others to respect them. Inevitably,
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Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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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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The mindset for walking lonely political paths may not be self-evident to those who seek confirmation by hundreds, sometimes thousands of friends on Facebook.
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There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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