Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
HENRY KISSINGERFor nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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History is the memory of States.
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Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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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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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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If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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It has the added advantage of being true.
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In 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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There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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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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For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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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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Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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