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Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.

Henry Kissinger

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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Goal Oppression
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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Fear Insecurity Nation Represent
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Enemy Win
It is not often that nations learn from the past, even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.
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Learning Nation Past
Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Big World
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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One Liner Power
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset
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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Genius Security
Politicians are like dogs, Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable
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Commitment Dog Expectation Growth Life Politics
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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Animal Man Policy Stupidity
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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Blessing Destiny Eyes God Leadership People Play
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship

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