In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
HENRY KISSINGERHistory is the memory of States.
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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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Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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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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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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The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.
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There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Americans hold that every problem has a solution; Chinese think that each solution is an admission ticket to a new set of problems.
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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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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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Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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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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Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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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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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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