The goal of the tribute system was to foster deference, not to extract economic benefit or to dominate foreign societies militarily.
HENRY KISSINGERIntellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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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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Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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It is not often that nations learn from the past, even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.
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Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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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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Politicians are like dogs, Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable
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A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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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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Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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