That is why the just war tradition is a theory of statecraft, not simply a method of casuistry. |
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His considerable exertions notwithstanding, truth in matters of statecraft remains implacably gray. |
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Of course, throughout history, various observers have championed war as a preferred instrument of statecraft. |
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Suicide terrorists are not some other breed of men, unsusceptible to the usual tools of statecraft. |
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Let us recommit ourselves to the slow and painstaking work of statecraft, which sees peace, not war as being inevitable. |
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One example would be his last testament in court, in which he repeatedly accuses Gandhi of flouting the canons of secular statecraft. |
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The Shield of Achilles synthesises his various strands of expertise, weaving history with statecraft, law, diplomacy and military strategy. |
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But it's also a history play, and crams in all the issues of statecraft, politics, and morality that obsessed the Elizabethans. |
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Should we care about them any less, because of a quirk of geography and statecraft? |
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Instead, they have replaced statecraft with stagecraft, substance with style, and not a very fashionable style at that. |
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The political history of ancient or medieval India and the conventions of statecraft unearthed by that history have influenced Indians even less. |
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A strategy of disengagement would require bold, risk-taking statecraft of a high order, and much diplomatic competence in its execution. |
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What then is distinctive about it is that it is best understood as an extended phase of peacemaking, and possesses many of the characteristics of that genre of statecraft. |
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Verdi is an exponent of the same ideas, the same sense of statecraft. |
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In spite of their professed desire to modernize, many Qing officials believed that the basic principles of Chinese statecraft were based on Confucian prescriptions. |
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That is part of the second category of leaks, concerning American statecraft. |
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There is a book in the parliamentary library entitled Religion, the missing dimension of statecraft which is very helpful on this subject. |
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My Government is not prepared to concede that sanctions are not a legitimate and effective tool of statecraft. |
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France is indeed a special country where culture plays an important role in diplomacy and statecraft. |
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It is an element in statecraft, foreign policy, Canada's relations with other states and in Canada's participation in international bodies. |
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Biological agents also demonstrate more clearly why statecraft is of paramount importance. |
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Allowing for changes in circumstances and, hence, how they are used, these remain the basic elements of US statecraft. |
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The dominant philosophy of statecraft has become a form of pragmatic meliorism with markets and Western democratic institutions as the chosen means for improving our lives. |
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Membership in NATO has helped correct these defects of statecraft and government, although much work remains once a nation is included in the alliance. |
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The leader's primary task is therefore to maintain these three crucial elements of statecraft, and periodically to renew, refresh and reinvigorate them. |
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These were vile acts of political murder, emerging from a political context created, in part, by Western statecraft and driven by political goals. |
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This is because espionage has become an integral part of American statecraft. |
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It is this message alone more than any geopolitical impulse or statecraft that has the Russian government scrambling. |
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Know and select the right instruments of statecraft and orchestrate them to maximum effect. |
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But every user of a radical ideology as a tool of statecraft fears being out-radicalized. |
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Economic statecraft, whereby nations use trade, loans, grants and investment to influence the action of other states, is now becoming more important. |
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Once new trade routes were forged to the Americas, Africa and Asia, mercantilism involved statecraft and realpolitik as well as trade and commerce. |
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The TANSTAAFL principle applies to all techniques of statecraft, not just the economic ones. |
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But in extraordinary times, when the very terrain of history shifts beneath our feet, the mission of statecraft is to transform our institutions and partnerships to realize new purposes on the basis of enduring principles. |
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What they see is a penny-pinching attitude, driven by an accountancy approach to politics, rather than the statecraft our citizens are crying out for. |
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Strategy and statecraft become means of 'combative coexistence' with opponents. |
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There was nothing about their outward appearance of the august wiggery of statecraft, nothing of the ponderous dignity of ministerial position. |
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This is often a call to use a holistic spectrum of statecraft tools, ranging from soft to hard. |
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Also on that same day, the Associate Executive Director, on behalf of the Executive Director, was a guest lecturer at a CCISS seminar on intelligence, statecraft and international affairs. |
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Such developments, in conjunction with international economic and political change, are causing movements of people on a scale large enough to affect societies, statecraft and strategic developments world-wide. |
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Mr Gates argues that a military relationship is not a reward for good behaviour but an instrument of statecraft that benefits both sides even when there is friction. |
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In the service of our diplomatic and diplomacy objectives, I assembled a talented and experienced team to lead our 21st century statecraft efforts. |
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However time-consuming they are to promote, dialogue and coalitions, or social and political pacts, are essential elements of effective modern statecraft. |
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That is not to say, however, that a fully engaged public service, practising the high arts of statecraft, has been the norm for these public services ever since the advent of independent staffing on the basis of merit. |
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Those outside actors chose to sacrifice regional geostrategic priorities on the altar of the extremist communal aspirations of the Kosovo Albanians, and they chose expediency over statecraft. |
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And as we work together with the private sector and foreign governments to deploy the tools of 21st century statecraft, we have to remember our shared responsibility to safeguard the freedoms that I've talked about today. |
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By 1600 historians emphasised Henry's wisdom in drawing lessons in statecraft from other monarchs. |
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During his travels, Bacon studied language, statecraft, and civil law while performing routine diplomatic tasks. |
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The practitioners of these three arts are the paladins of statecraft. |
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Despite these negatives, he is considered an architect and keeper of Chinese culture, history, and statecraft and an influential ruler in Chinese history. |
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