I pulled up the "Statecraft" menu and changed America's name.
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Buddhism and statecraft have long been joined at the hip.
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This was a shining moment of statecraft for our nation.
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And the norms of statecraft propriety themselves seem to be changing.
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Statecraft taking second place to the interests of the inner circle.
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China was able to employ this form of belligerent statecraft once.
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Stagecraft mimics statecraft—which is itself a distorted form of entertainment.
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That statecraft, however, was more than just a realpolitik power play.
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She treated Brexit as an issue of party management rather than statecraft.
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"This is exactly what you want to do in statecraft," he says.
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Putin is an old hand, a master at both spycraft and statecraft.
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Statecraft involves some skills distinctively different from those of a business leader.
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Trump isn't able to perform that basic kind of statecraft of conservatism.
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Like its author, US statecraft is fixated with pleasing Trump's political base.
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It was yet another way in which statecraft and cyberoperations had intersected.
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Although underappreciated, your role is at the center of 21st-century statecraft.
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Clausewitz is arguing that war is one tool of statecraft and nothing more.
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This speaks to her statecraft, which differs substantially from that of David Cameron.
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Using media for change -- and elections Williams attributes his success with StateCraft Inc.
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Will using social media to sow discord become an acceptable tool of statecraft?
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Trump's statecraft had a way of generating new business in other ways, too.
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Cyber attacks have become a tool of statecraft in this technology-driven age.
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That's what we ought to seek, and that's part of the art of statecraft.
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American Idol invoked the national consciousness, as if it were some project of statecraft.
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Williams says StateCraft helped "humanize" Buhari's message of change to connect with the youth.
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The situational variables argue against preventive war in favor of other forms of statecraft.
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It is the latest spot where Ivanka Trump has tried her hand at statecraft.
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They're also the latest spots where Ivanka Trump has tried her hand at statecraft.
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Statecraft, capitalism, political power and patriotism are willfully mixed up with lust and love.
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Trump's actions, clumsy as they may be, are reimagined as statecraft in McCarthy's retelling.
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By the time the Institute for Statecraft had been hacked, it was too late.
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This was a crisis of a political regime rather than merely a crisis of statecraft.
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What works in real estate clearly doesn't in the world of statecraft and international diplomacy.
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Rule number one of statecraft ought to be: When you're doing something really stupid, stop.
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Global statecraft relies on trust, reputation and credibility, which can be all too easily squandered.
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With "Tyll," Kehlmann envisioned something darker, about wars of religion and the impotence of statecraft.
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A year ago, the Russians hacked the Institute for Statecraft, a foreign policy think tank.
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But to judge him by this statecraft is not to do full justice to the man.
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Even the low-key George Bush père, lacking "the vision thing," was about statecraft and governance.
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Andrew Bacevich, a TomDispatch regular, now serves as president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.
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In trying to do that, the two countries are blazing totally new trails of modern statecraft.
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Andrew Bacevich, a TomDispatch regular, is president and cofounder of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.
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Statecraft requires a rigorous process of refining and a timely means of deliberating on those alternatives.
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The Pentagon has been a hotbed of "stable" statecraft, if that means tamping down on Trump.
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Plenty. We recently discussed stagecraft and statecraft with the authors of past, current and coming plays.
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An online publishing forum named Responsible Statecraft will display U.S. foreign policy news, opinions and analysis.
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Kim is, essentially, upsetting two decades of carefully choreographed North Korean statecraft and stepping into the unknown.
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Judged as an act of high statecraft, the appointment is one to furrow brows in capitals worldwide.
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It set the bedrock for a generation of economic growth, equipped American statecraft and ensured global power.
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To agree, sadly, with Joseph Goebbels, contests between voices like these undermine the public's faith in statecraft.
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To some experts, Mr. Trump's truncated schedule represented a new phase in his unorthodox approach to statecraft.
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He is a senior fellow of the Institute for Statecraft in London and the Atlantic Council in Washington.
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While the Atlantic Alliance is a jewel of American statecraft, it is also the product of American blood.
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"Wilson and Trump represent two interwoven strands of the DNA of American statecraft — internationalism and realism," he said.
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Responsible Statecraft also uncovered that Grenell had provided P.R. services "aimed at U.S. media" for other foreign entities.
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He is also a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, working on the research institution's Cyber Statecraft Initiative.
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Many historians argue that Chinese statecraft embraced a more pro-development attitude towards resource exploitation in these years.
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According to Marshall Billingslea, an assistant secretary in the Treasury department, it reflects Donald Trump's innovative "financial statecraft".
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To hear Mr Trump and his team describe statecraft, America sounds like a faded but still-valuable brand-name.
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But … the stakes in global statecraft are infinitely higher and more complex than in the world of luxury hotels.
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In the National Security Strategy published in December, the subheading under "Diplomacy and Statecraft" is "Competitive Diplomacy" — not cooperation.
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If we cannot reach one, it would represent a failure of statecraft for which we would all be responsible.
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Mr. Trump's quicksilver approach to statecraft has left many of America's allies and adversaries in a kind of paralysis.
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Hostage-taking — for that's what was done to Mr. Wang — in the Islamic Republic is both statecraft and soulcraft.
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It is a bit perplexing that despite their shortcomings, economic sanctions became such a popular tool of international statecraft.
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More broadly, Abe has demonstrated a surprisingly flexible approach to using apology and history as a tool of statecraft.
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Certainly, fabricating such an incident would fit within Russia's tradition of using propaganda as a key tool of military statecraft.
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"The stakes in global statecraft are infinitely higher and more complex than in the world of luxury hotels," Clinton said.
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Make no mistake, U.S. policy should be to counter forcefully such policies with the most suitable instruments of our statecraft.
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" Bottom line: "The stakes in global statecraft are infinitely higher and more complex than in the world of luxury hotels.
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Clinton painted Mr. Trump as a reckless, childish and uninformed amateur who was playing at the game of global statecraft.
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Acheson's book recounts the struggles, the intense negotiations and the occasionally brilliant statecraft that established the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
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Rizzo is a Research Associate in the Strategy and Statecraft Program at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS).
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Gently, politely but insistently, they offered an establishment tutorial on statecraft for an administration that has disdained the very notion.
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Arms deals and summit meetings are familiar tools of statecraft, but an orange and gold robe lined with cheetah fur?
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Kipnis has now written a book, "Unwanted Advances," about feminism, relationship statecraft and the shadow world of Title IX investigations.
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But be in no doubt, that outcome would be a failure of statecraft for which we would all be responsible.
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But filtering all policy decisions through a military lens will compromise the balance in decision making that good statecraft requires.
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This concept, which I call "marketcraft," makes market governance a core function of government comparable to statecraft, the art of diplomacy.
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The question for senators who must consent to his appointment is whether he can convert his business acumen into diplomatic statecraft.
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The Washington Post obtained transcripts of his call with the leaders of Mexico and Australia that reveals Trump's approach to statecraft.
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With reliable attribution, the indictments strengthened the perception that the U.S. government could impose sanctions or other forms of punitive statecraft.
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This is how you fund your walls, your mead hall, or lure peasants to live in tents near your exercise in statecraft.
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Had Beijing made such a gesture of smart statecraft, it would have smoothed the way to a fast and reasonable trade agreement.
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Today's explosive testimony by Michael Cohen (10 am, overshadowing the Hanoi statecraft and stagecraft for the day) makes the second less likely.
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These virtues of government, as Oakeshott would have termed them, can also be described as the virtues of pragmatism, or indeed statecraft.
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Indeed, the central policy goals of both North Korea and China are directly at odds with almost a century of American statecraft.
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In a different time, at a very different stratum, Sergey Kislyak appears to be a virtuoso of this essential art of statecraft.
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Fifteen years ago today, President George W. Bush signed Executive Order 2900, the opening salvo in America's new financial statecraft against terrorism.
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Such a frame-of-mind dumbs down diplomacy as a punitive stick instead of the normal business of statecraft it really is.
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Indeed, President Trump, Jared Kushner and Prince Mohammed seem to mistake presidential and princely preference and mutual agreement for statecraft and implementation.
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The pace is jaunty, the scenes crackle with gleeful, giddy incredulity, and the dry business of statecraft attains the velocity of farce.
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By far, the most skilled practitioners of this showy statecraft were Southern slaveholders in the decades leading up to the Civil War.
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So a central element of Russia's statecraft since the days of the czars has been deceiving and weakening its enemies from within.
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For China, a relationship with Russia is a foreign relationship like others—an important one, a complex one, but a matter of statecraft.
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Although weapons and armies are essential tools for its players, statecraft and spycraft are the defining forces that govern its winners and losers.
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The result is a set of challenges for which America's current tools of statecraft, dominated by traditional political-military might, are uniquely unsuited.
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Indeed, the U.S. nuclear industry's chief competitors in China and Russia are using their domestic state-run nuclear industry as tools of statecraft.
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The willingness to negotiate with adversaries and address them courteously has come to be viewed as a sign of weakness, not savvy statecraft.
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At a time when few women had a place in statecraft, she became one of the highest-ranking women at the United Nations.
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I continue to believe that "America First" is a fine piece of statecraft with analogues in successful nation-states all over the world.
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Responsible statecraft will oppose the war-making of others, but it will make sure, first and foremost, that America is not fueling violence.
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The party would spend weeks tearing itself apart when it ought to be grappling with the most complicated bit of statecraft in a generation.
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He is an aristocrat, and he was bred by his father in all the fine arts of modern statecraft like clasping claws with thugs.
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E-Estonia is the most ambitious project in technological statecraft today, for it includes all members of the government, and alters citizens' daily lives.
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In addition to what Virginia Tech scholar Ariel Ahram calls "statecraft," the group also marks and grows its territories through forced marriage and childbearing.
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"The failure to name names is really disturbing," said Sarah Leah Whitson of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a foreign policy research body.
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Civilian analysts, strategists and diplomats focus on statecraft: how to wield the foreign policy tool kit to achieve national goals and protect American interests.
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And it's this team of generals, not any of the usual foreign policy schools, that seems increasingly likely to steer his statecraft going forward.
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But they treat bombs and missiles and drone strikes and (in limited, extractable numbers) boots on the ground as first-resort tools of statecraft.
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The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft will focus on promoting peace and diplomatic agreement rather than war and military action in U.S. foreign policy.
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Chinese State Councillor Wang Yi said U.S. politicians are smearing China globally without providing evidence and using statecraft to suppress legitimate Chinese business interests.
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This is a significant response, but a closer reading of the package reveals four important lessons about what this means for deterrence, statecraft and cybersecurity.
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Literally making him king would turn Westeros into a laughing stock because sure, Edmure has seen war and might know statecraft, but does he really?
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The purpose of such adulatory treatment -- which was also offered to Chinese President Xi Jinping in recent years -- is to grease the wheels of statecraft.
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Somehow, they have to find a way of accommodating each other's overarching goals, as Henry Kissinger explains in his classic book on statecraft, "World Order".
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Russia hack 'bid to discredit' UK anti-disinformation campaign Britain's Institute for Statecraft is a government-funded body that is supposed to counter Russian disinformation.
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Alas this description of statecraft as a series of deals, brokered in eyeball-to-eyeball negotiations with foreign powers, bears no resemblance to real diplomacy.
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As the founder of political communications agency StateCraft Inc, Williams worked on the campaign that got Goodluck Jonathan elected to the Nigerian presidency in 2011.
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The payments from the foundation, which were first reported by the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, also were not listed on Mr. Grenell's disclosure form.
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Good statecraft, guided first and foremost by the need to protect and defend the American people, has ceased to be about utilizing the U.S. military.
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There were six or more separate dumps of material from the Institute for Statecraft in total, made across several months dating back to November 2018.
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But the king's late-night statement appeared to preclude any need for the election commission to weigh in on matters of the monarchy and statecraft.
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And he was right that civilisation is a delicate construct that requires skilful—and sometimes cynical—statecraft if it is to be saved from self-destruction. ■
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Jennifer M. Harris is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and is the co-author of War by Other Means: Geoeconomics and Statecraft.
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The new outfit, launched yesterday, is called the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, and it's funded by liberal billionaire George Soros and libertarian billionaire Charles Koch.
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Fine, there's a fair argument that boring statecraft is far preferable to a power-mad despot with a fire-breathing dragon to back up her words.
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While all those cyberwar and potential-cyberwar examples may seem minor compared with traditional warfare, they are signals of a troubling turn in nations' cyber-statecraft.
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Set aside, too, that he has demonstrated no ability for statecraft or the actual administration of government and has demonstrated much incompetence at business to boot.
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When Mr Johnson met Leo Varadkar in Dublin this week, he claimed to be working for a deal and called no-deal a "failure of statecraft".
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Doomsday statecraft and battlefield clashes are hellishly difficult to control even for a president, like the elder Bush, who spent decades assiduously preparing for the job.
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He moved to Scotland to be closer to family and began doing contract work on Russia for pro-democracy think tanks like the Institute for Statecraft.
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Klara Jordan, director of the Atlantic Council's Cyber Statecraft Initiative, suggested the US may simply prefer to continue to push for a UN-wide agreement on regulation.
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The name of the Institute for Statecraft was misstated and the UK government agency that provided the statement was misidentified in an earlier version of this post.
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The pageantry of statecraft, including things such as summits with foreign leaders and state visits to the White House, provide China's government with a veneer of legitimacy.
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Francis Rooney, Vatican ambassador from 2005-2008, said much of the statecraft occurs on the sidelines of the main event, in meetings between the countries' chief diplomats.
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People who once dismissed Rao as a pushover began likening him to Kautilya, the Mauryan empire's strategist who wrote a book on statecraft a millennium before Machiavelli.
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Nixon devised the "madman theory" of statecraft, under which he hoped to keep the nation's foes off balance by persuading them that he was impulsive and unpredictable.
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America's growing capacity to create real and sustainable wealth is a key feature of statecraft, and a foundation for leadership in education, science, technology and human development.
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A new think tank backed by their foundations, the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, is opening its doors on Wednesday a few blocks from the White House.
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New administrations often fail to change the foreign policies of their predecessors as radically as they promised, in large part because statecraft is so different from campaigning.
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In the 21st century, finally rid of colonial empires and Cold War antagonism, America has the opportunity to practice responsible statecraft, directed toward the promotion of peace.
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Finally, these indictments are a key step in leveraging legal statecraft to influence global norms, and draw the line between what is and is not acceptable behavior.
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Still, Trump has struggled with the finer points of statecraft when attending international gatherings throughout his presidency, committing unforced violations of protocol or explicitly denigrating American allies.
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"Statecraft has been singularly absent from the treatment of some of his allies, particularly the U.K.," said Peter Westmacott, a former British ambassador to the United States.
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"There is greater clarity for manufacturers, patients and hospitals," said Josh Corman, an expert on medical device security who is director of the Atlantic Council's Cyber Statecraft Initiative.
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"I can't tell you how many German interviews I've done in the last few months," said Laura Galante, a senior fellow at The Atlantic Council's Cyber Statecraft Initiative.
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This was nowhere more notable than in the West's use of economic statecraft as the primary tool in exerting pressure on Russia to change its policy concerning Ukraine.
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Healey, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's Cyber Statecraft Initiative, suggested that the government should not be drawing "red lines" in cyberspace that automatically trigger a response.
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An analysis of Sputnik's English-language coverage by Ben Nimmo, a senior fellow at the British-based Institute for Statecraft, found a significant bias toward the exit campaign.
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Trump is resurrecting the Republican Party's disdain for the use of American statecraft as an instrument for promoting liberal values, which went into abeyance with President Ronald Reagan.
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As Mattis and a host of other retired generals have argued, neglecting these fundamentals of statecraft to default to military intervention does not effectively defend vital U.S. interests.
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Lauding his own statecraft, Trump pointed to the return of U.S. hostages, the suspension of nuclear testing, and no North Korean missile launches for more than a year.
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At one level, the contradictory messages illustrate Mr. Trump's transactional approach to statecraft — one that prizes individual victories over a unified theory of America's role in the world.
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That Mr. Duterte's contribution to international statecraft, the annals of which already include Ping-Pong diplomacy, would include karaoke might come as little surprise to those he leads.
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Indeed, it's the obviousness of each man's agenda, and Mr. Trump's obliviousness to that obviousness, that makes the scene so banal as stagecraft — and so startling as statecraft.
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The owner-renter divide is as salient as any other in this nation, and this divide is a historical result of statecraft designed to protect and promote inequality.
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The hearing, entitled "The Use of Sanctions and Economic Statecraft in Addressing U.S. National Security and Foreign Policy Challenges," will examine the efficiency of major U.S. sanctions programs.
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Patient and persistent American statecraft could build up enough of a sense of isolation to convince the North Koreans they have pretty much played out the current string.
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Moreover, the primary U.S. statecraft tools needed to accomplish these efforts are diplomacy and development, which are the very areas from which the Trump administration is cutting resources.
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"It makes it a less scalable and actual target to influence the outcome of an actual election," said Josh Corman, director of the Atlantic Council's Cyber Statecraft Initiative.
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The paradox of Mr. Trump's transactional approach to statecraft is that the joint statement he signed with North Korea looks like the kind of deal he once derided.
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To present the nation with a choice between two deeply unattractive outcomes, vassalage and chaos, is a failure of British statecraft on a scale unseen since the Suez crisis.
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The impact on Merck was particularly troubling because it affected the firm's ability to produce medicines, said Joshua Corman, director of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative at the Atlantic Council.
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Yet, there is a growing demand for a foreign policy reset where the U.S. minimizes the blood and treasure of war but projects power through economic diplomacy and statecraft.
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Democrats' chances of taking back the House in 2628 have suddenly soared — not because of any brilliant statecraft on their part, but because of the utter ineptness of Republicans.
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Pompeo needs to articulate a specific strategy for US economic statecraft because that will be as important as dollars in crafting a credible alternative to the Belt and Road.
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In this sense, the terror "constituted a form of rule, a matter of statecraft" that sprang readily from a mind steeped in paranoia but capable of impeccable self-control.
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The search for a more successful national security strategy must begin with a revitalized State Department and a renewed respect for the value of the nonmilitary tools of statecraft.
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Pompeo's Trump is the Trump of the National Security Strategy, a wise and clearheaded executive who knows what he wants and has respect for the collaborative nature of statecraft.
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She dedicated herself to one objective — protecting the survival of the Lannister dynasty and the life of her unborn child — and centered every tool of statecraft on accomplishing that goal.
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Friedman spoke on a call organized by the Atlantic Council's Cyber-Statecraft Initiative along with the head of the initiative, a long time internet of things security advocate, Josh Corman.
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Since he came to power in 2008, Mr. Zuma has combined a Putinesque mastery of the darker arts of statecraft with insouciance toward anything beside his own enrichment and impunity.
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In Britain, a study by the Institute for Statecraft found that despite its claims of neutrality in the European Union referendum debate, RT gave an edge to the "leave" camp.
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"If people are looking for more polish and more kind of conventional statecraft and that's their metric for Trump learning, I think they're going to be disappointed," Carafano told Politico.
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The very idea of the Brexit vote should have been opposed from the start as bad statecraft, as unconstitutional, and as a terrible example for other democracies around the world.
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Today, entrenched forces in Washington remain committed to foreign policies more in line with what Martin Luther King Jr. called "the madness of militarism" than the statecraft of real diplomacy.
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Indeed what is distinctive about Clinton, more even than Bush or Obama, is how few examples there are of her ever breaking with the elite consensus on matters of statecraft.
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The protagonist of "Ludwig," who ruled Bavaria from 1864-86, is less interested in statecraft than in the music of Wagner and in building palaces that resemble fantastical stage sets.
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Whatever he does or does not understand about history or policy or statecraft, Mr. Trump has a keen sense of how to engage authoritarian thugs who crave respect and legitimacy.
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Washington needs to keep that fact firmly in mind as it makes diplomatic decisions, postures forces, imposes sanctions, and otherwise engages in global statecraft in the months and years ahead.
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This, after all, is a leader who claimed to have invented a herbal cure for HIV, whose grasp of witchcraft was widely considered to be better than his grasp of statecraft.
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Nixon got a pardon from Gerald Ford for his crimes and, rather rapidly, worked his way back into respectability as a political and intellectual figure who would write books on statecraft.
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Johnson, 46, called it the worst failure of statecraft since the 1956 Suez canal crisis, in which Britain was humiliatingly forced by the United States to withdraw its troops from Egypt.
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"To present the nation with a choice between two deeply unattractive outcomes, vassalage and chaos, is a failure of British statecraft on a scale unseen since the Suez crisis," he said.
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"So far, Trump and his team have explicitly disowned values and human rights as a part of U.S. statecraft," researchers at the Centre of American Progress said in a recent note.
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Boris Johnson said he agreed with his brother that the Brexit talks were "the biggest failure of UK statecraft since Suez" when Britain lost control of the waterway in the 1950s.
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It also proved that the nation-state of the Jewish people functions as a family in a way that occasionally makes normal statecraft, the national calculations of power and interest, irrelevant.
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There are too many military officials in key positions, trained in the kinetic arts, but with little experience in diplomacy, international finance, communications — the balance of capacities that true statecraft demands.
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In the private sector, Bossert was a senior fellow for the Cyber Statecraft Initiative at the Atlantic Council and was president of Civil Defense Solutions LLC, a risk-management consulting firm.
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But as Commander-in-Chief, Clinton's most important foreign policy project could well be to finish the important work she started as Secretary of State -- restoring America's lost art of geoeconomic statecraft.
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Netanyahu sounded unrepentant on Sunday - even as one Israeli official grudgingly commended Iran's statecraft and a former senior adviser to the prime minister accused him of having pursued a dangerously failed strategy.
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Like the original 2013 manual, the new version is the result of a study by NATO to gauge consensus opinions from international law experts on what types of cyber statecraft are acceptable.
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The pride in the glorious poetry of the Tang dynasty, the sophisticated statecraft of the Han dynasty, or the fine arts of the Ming is less prominent than reminders of historical hurts.
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The program is a potent reminder of what could be the defining arms race of the century, as greater computing power and self-learning programs create new avenues for war and statecraft.
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Chapters recounting fevered statecraft are interspersed with those chronicling Holbrooke's three marriages and multiple affairs and romances, including one with Diane Sawyer, all featuring the same detailed reporting and sharp personality portraiture.
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"I doubt any significant number of people in Iran and Iraq will see this as a gift of freedom," says Trita Parsi, an Iran expert at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.
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Although sitting down with the Russians for difficult conversations in search of points of agreement has become political poison inside the Beltway, good politics does not correlate to good statecraft and strategy.
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In the statement that accompanied his resignation as transport minister earlier this month, Jo Johnson accused his own government of "a failure of British statecraft on a scale unseen since the Suez crisis".
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China criticized Pompeo's predecessor, Rex Tillerson, in February after he said Latin America "does not need new imperial powers" and that China was "using economic statecraft to pull the region into its orbit".
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The game is explicit about what this choice means: Siding with Roche means that you align with an oppressive maneuverer of statecraft; siding with Iorveth means that you vouch for a domestic terrorist.
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The think tank, called the Integrity Initiative, whose parent organization, the Institute for Statecraft, has received most of its funding the past two years from the British government, was hacked in late 2018.
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"If they can put their lives on the line to protect our way of life, then, by golly, we can give them the weapons," he protested, honoring his audience as collaborators in statecraft.
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Future presidents will no doubt continue to rely on economic sanctions in statecraft, and lawmakers will keep drafting and passing comprehensive sanctions bills as a way to punish bad actors around the world.
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In the short term, strategists from both parties say the imagery and statecraft of the event — the first-ever such encounter between a sitting American president and a North Korean leader — benefit Trump.
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The game is explicit about what this choice means: Siding with Roche means that you align with an oppressive maneuverer of statecraft; siding with Iorveth means that you vouch for a domestic terrorist.
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Destructive confrontation and increasing hostility between nuclear-armed military powers — advocated by so many thought-challenged "strategists" – should give way to a sober-minded statecraft based on a worldly assessment of national interest.
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"He not just in a minority anymore" with his take on Russia, said Laura Galante, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's Cyber Statecraft Initiative and the former director of global intelligence at FireEye.
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The Financial Services' planned panel, entitled, "The Use of Sanctions and Economic Statecraft in Addressing U.S. National Security and Foreign Policy Challenges," was set to examine the efficiency of major U.S. sanctions programs.
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But Mr. Trump's erratic statecraft, compounded by the shadow of the Russia investigation, leaves him in a questionable position to extract concessions from Mr. Xi or even allies like Japan and South Korea.
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For Mr. Trump, his first day at the summit meeting of the Group of 20 industrialized nations in Buenos Aires was a window into his idiosyncratic statecraft after nearly two years in office.
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Last year, Koch turned heads when he gave nearly $500,000 to help establish the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a new think tank devoted to reining in the use of U.S. military action.
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He is also indifferent to my own concept of "smart power," or the imperative to engage a broad range of tools of statecraft, from diplomacy to aid to private sector engagement to military intervention.
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After Mr Modi's first victory in 2014, liberals hoped the pro-business tub-thumper would become a pro-market prime minister, encouraging investment by liberalising labour and land laws, relying on statecraft, not stagecraft.
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Working for Clinton, he became the poster boy for what some called "digital diplomacy" or "21st century statecraft," a wide-ranging effort to modernize the US government's foreign policy using technology and social media.
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Clinton in the act of statecraft and surrounded by the instruments of American power, set off against Mr. Trump's almost comical bluster in two memorably poor television interviews, makes the ad's point inescapably clear.
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"We're doing it because the Iranian regime's use of terrorism as a tool of statecraft is fundamentally different from any other government," Pompeo said of taking the unprecedented step of designating a government entity.
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Put briefly, that is the West's world order — Pax Americana — that is now being defended from, what Washington calls, "revisionist powers" espousing very different principles of statecraft, and very different societal forms and values.
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"We're doing [it] because the Iranian regime's use of terrorism as a tool of statecraft makes it fundamentally different from any other government," Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in remarks announcing the decision.
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Several key positions, such as the U.N. ambassador, remain vacant and provide opportunities to bring in women leaders with experience in security and strategic studies, counterterrorism and intelligence, as well as statecraft and development.
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In the remaining acts, you take control of Kait, a former member of the non-Coalition Outsiders, whose perspective on statecraft and policing and action hero stuff is a little more complicated than JD's.
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"While Maduro and other cartel members held lofty titles in Venezuela's political and military leadership, the conduct described in the Indictment wasn't statecraft or service to the Venezuelan people," U.S. Attorney Geoff Berman said.
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The CPC heard from Trita Parsi, a prominent Iran analyst and co-founder of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, who urged liberals to move responsibly to end U.S. entanglements in the Middle East.
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At Mar-a-Lago, moneymaking, socializing and statecraft converged in February, when Shinzo Abe, Japan's prime minister, conferred with Mr. Trump over a North Korean missile test in full view of the club's members.
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Previously, she served on the Secretary's Policy Planning Staff at the State Department, where she was a lead architect of Clinton's Economic Statecraft agenda, and she has been an informal adviser to the Clinton campaign.
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Jason Healey, a senior fellow on the Atlantic Council's Cyber Statecraft Initiative, told members of a House panel with oversight of the Pentagon that he expects the capabilities to be developed in the next decade.
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Although "Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball" has perhaps sold more than the other 13 combined, my favorite is "Statecraft as Soulcraft: What Government Does," based on my Godkin Lectures at Harvard in 1981.
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Hardly. Richard Nephew is the former Deputy Coordinator for Sanctions Policy at the State Department and currently Director of the Economic Statecraft, Sanctions, and Energy Markets program at Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy.
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George Lopez is professor emeritus and a founding member with the Kroc Institute of International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame and is a nonresident fellow with the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.
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In a negative way, a more multipolar world may be the watershed that signals the peak of democracy and potentially the beginning of contests within regions for competing views of democracy, institutional strength, statecraft, and control.
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The Israeli press was dumbstruck: It was business as usual for Netanyahu to manufacture a controversy, but it was novel and almost un-Israeli of him to argue his position by invoking proper etiquette and statecraft.
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The subtext of columns like this is a desire to "Make History Great Again" by returning to the days when historians played a central role in national life in both countries, studying war, peace and statecraft.
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Jo Johnson resigned as transport minister on Friday, declaring the Prime Minister's "failure of statecraft" was the worst since the Suez crisis, one of the most calamitous moments for the British government in the last century.
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The coalescing of views was symbolized by the launch last month of a new Washington think tank, the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, which is dedicated to building new support for a less interventionist foreign policy.
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This was exactly the response he was hoping to elicit — surprise, uncertainty and a sense that the rational, predictable statecraft of President Barack Obama had given way to Mr. Trump's more assertive vision of American power.
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Thursday's meeting could also help Netanyahu in the closely contested election, in which he has played up his statecraft and security credentials in the face of the politically untested challenger Benny Gantz, a former military chief.
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Chude Jideonwo is Co-founder and Managing Partner of RED, owner of the continent's largest portfolio of youth media RED's governance communication company, StateCraft Inc, handled the campaign communication for the current presidents of Nigeria and Ghana.
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During the year leading up to the election, he deftly navigated the field of 17 Republican primary candidates to appear and act neutral — a rare feat of statecraft in what could have easily become a divided party.
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The Dai Viet used military might and Confucianist statecraft and administration to push the Viet empire southward, in order to "respectfully bring the Mandate of Heaven, and do the work of striking and killing those cruel people".
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Prioritizing these high-wage, globally traded industries of the 21st century, as the Rubio report calls for, is not some kind of statist misallocation of resources, but rather needs to be a core component of modern statecraft.
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" Celia Szusterman, trustee of the UK board of Pro-Mujer and director of the Latin America program at the Institute for Statecraft, told CNN that the result was "a step backward for women's rights and women's health.
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The group's formation raised red flags, said Julianne Smith, a former deputy national security adviser to Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and the director of strategy and statecraft at the Center for a New American Security.
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" Parsi is executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a think tank with a focus on shifting U.S. foreign policy away "from endless war and toward vigorous diplomacy in the pursuit of international peace.
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While Trump enthusiastically used nondisclosure agreements with his business associates that could hold up well in court, he does not seem to understand how to apply those same elements of confidentiality and secrecy to statecraft and intelligence operations.
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Observing things from afar, I believe that the proverbial Oriental wisdom has a better understanding of the pactum leonina than the European leaders who, in one form or another, should have encountered the Roman foundations of modern statecraft.
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WASHINGTON — The US needs a campaign plan to address state and state-backed actions that fall between the bounds of "routine statecraft" and direct military conflict, according to a report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
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And in our age of hyper-communication, so obviously determined and controlled and facilitated by private corporations (which also meddle in statecraft), the kind of explanation that Hobart offers in The Great Rift will find many willing readers.
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Iran "uses cyberspace operations as a tool of statecraft and internal security, and it continues to improve its capabilities," the Defense Intelligence Agency warned in November in an examination of Tehran's military goals and intentions, including in cyberspace.
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The U.S., for the first time in decades, was looking to fund this tool of information and economic statecraft, as it had done during the Cold War when the U.S. found itself competing in a global diplomatic arena.
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These breakdowns occurred for multiple and varying reasons: sometimes having to do with relative shifts in the balance of power, sometimes having to do with clashing ideologies, sometimes having to do with simple blunders and other idiosyncrasies of statecraft.
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Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Phillip Breedlove and Strategy and Statecraft Director Julianne Smith of the Center for New American Strategy told the panel it is critical to keep up a hard-line approach against Russia -- including maintaining sanctions.
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Beau Woods, deputy director of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative at the Atlantic Council, said that the Korean language used in some versions of the WannaCry ransom note was not that of a native speaker, making a Lazarus connection unlikely.
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These members noted that Al Jazeera was founded and funded by the Qatari state, and that the U.S. Ambassador to Doha determined a number of years ago that Qatar's government uses Al Jazeera as a tool of Qatari statecraft.
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As digital mechanisms are increasingly integrated as a tool of statecraft, their deployment is only going to expand in depth and scope as state and non-state actors use them to achieve their various political, economic, and social objectives.
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For the last five years, Western leaders and analysts have often projected onto China an image of their preferred imaginings, rather than one reflecting the actual statements of China's own leaders, or in the physical evidence of Chinese statecraft.
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Small in spirit, in valor, in dignity, in statecraft, this American president who knows nothing of history and cares still less and now bestrides Europe with his family in tow like some tin-pot dictator with a terrified entourage.
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" For Julian Lindley-French, a defense analyst and senior fellow at the Institute of Statecraft in London, austerity-shrunken Britain is "retreating behind a nuclear shield, no longer with the popular will or the capacity to defend the Continent.
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ROME (Reuters) - The ancient adage 'my enemy's enemy is my friend' has been a staple of pragmatic statecraft throughout history and it will be the cornerstone of a new Italian coalition that looks set to take office next week.
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Although he later descended into autocracy, Juan Domingo Perón at his early best embodied what Francis sees as the purpose of statecraft: He created work, integrated the excluded (Perón gave women the vote), and built consensus around core values.
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For all of the moral equivalency and the statecraft that he should not of done, the fact that the content of the U.S.-Russian relations today are exactly the same as they were yesterday, and that is an appropriate thing.
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As China's economic power increases and more countries in both the developed and developing world become dependent on Chinese trade and investment, Beijing will use its economic statecraft to pressure countries to downplay or abandon their democratic values and liberal policies.
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Like all nostalgia, it is a yearning for something that is as much fiction as reality; anyone paying attention would tell you that the violence of American statecraft was there to see, easily, for anyone who decided to see it.
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Beau Woods, deputy director of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative at the Atlantic Council and representative of I Am The Cavalry, a group that advocates for greater security in the internet of things devices, was also impressed by the best practices.
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Even if some claims of cyberwar are overblown — and notions of a looming "cyber-geddon" almost certainly are — the rapid adoption of new technologies as a mechanism of statecraft create ambiguity and give rise to risks that we need to understand.
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Trump's "explicit" disregard of human rights as a part of U.S. statecraft "will damage long term interests by alienating beleaguered Asian democrats, who look on as the United States unilaterally cedes its soft power," the Centre of American Progress said.
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ROLL THE DICE ON NUCLEAR WAR: If you roll a seven or higher, mock the physical appearance of an enemy nuclear power's unstable leader; six or lower, coyly say, "We'll see what happens," as if you actually understand geopolitical statecraft.
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In a twist that illustrates the extent to which Brexit has strained the norms of British statecraft, Johnson sent the note to the EU unsigned - and added another signed letter arguing against what he cast as a deeply corrosive delay.
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It also requires us to reinvest in diplomacy and other tools of national power — because funding a muscular military without robust diplomacy, economic statecraft, support for civil society, and development assistance only hamstrings American national power and undercuts any military gains.
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Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the DC-based Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, argues that the two countries may have "no choice" but to seek diplomacy, especially in the wake of this year's attack on the kingdom's oil facilities.
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When an army spokesman, providing very few details, announced on September 29th that India had carried out a retaliatory "surgical strike" against alleged terrorist bases along the border, popular news channels declared it a spectacular triumph and an act of subtle statecraft.
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Presented by European officials as a hard-nosed piece of statecraft, the "action plan" offers Turkey money, the prospect of visa-free travel inside the EU and an acceleration of its membership bid so long as the Turks keep the migrants away.
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While Trump rants about the world taking advantage of America, many foreign policy decisions are being made by staffers who share the same neoconservative tendency of the George W. Bush administration, using the military rather than diplomacy as the major instrument of statecraft.
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But Mr. Campbell, who is about to publish an account of Mr. Obama's efforts titled "The Pivot: The Future of American Statecraft in Asia," also noted that Asian nations were equally worried that America is no longer willing to be a steadying power.
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"Trump's actions take to new, depressing heights what's been true for a while: US foreign policy has become unmoored from strategic vision and moral purpose alike," Stephen Wertheim, a US foreign policy historian at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, told me.
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An exhibition of photographs in the pillared courtyard reveals the body's aspirations to be the arbiter of international statecraft: the parliament's former president Nicole Fontaine poses with Yasser Arafat, the Dalai Lama, and the leader of a delegation of female Afghan refugees.
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Daniel Bessner is the Pyle Associate Professor in American Foreign Policy at the University of Washington, a non-resident fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, and author of Democracy in Exile: Hans Speier and the Rise of the Defense Intellectual.
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"Iran is now free to sell as much oil as it wants to whomever it likes at whatever price it can get," said Richard Nephew, program director for Economic Statecraft, Sanctions and Energy Markets at Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy.
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The parallels between Mr. Trump's and Mr. Biden's plans provided a sense of irony — even comfort — for the Washington foreign policy establishment, which has felt deeply alienated during this presidency, watching Mr. Trump's unorthodox statecraft with a mix of horror and dismay.
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Unskilled workers had not been included in the strike, and these workers, though frequently illiterate and utterly unschooled in statecraft, provided the Bolshevik delegations with much-needed information about the offices where they worked, such as the home addresses of their bosses.
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Once a new president sets out his or her top national objectives and priorities, the immense machinery of the Pentagon, State Department, and intelligence community swings into action, deploying troops, diplomats, weapons systems, money, or other tools of statecraft to carry out American strategy.
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Sanders, in that sense, has not only missed an opportunity to score points with a Democratic electorate well to Clinton's left on matters of statecraft, but also deprived the country of a more profound debate as to the nature and purpose of U.S. military might.
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But the parallel attempts to influence Naftogaz further illustrate the nature of the Trump administration's interactions with Ukraine, in which statecraft and diplomacy appear to be mixed up with political and business interests and which are now the focus of a federal criminal investigation.
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I once wrote a book, read by dozens, called Statecraft as Soulcraft, in which I argued that when you organize a society, and particularly when you pick an economic system, you are, of necessity, picking the kind of people you're going to deal with.
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"We have very few specific challenges to healthcare, but a lot of the smaller individual challenges that other sectors face, we have all of them," Josh Corman, head of the Atlantic Council's Cyber Statecraft Initiative and a member of the task force, told The Hill.
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Ultimately, the fact that she can do that without prompting a pushback is not so much a personal flaw of putting party politics over statecraft, but a reflection of the shambolic state of the parliamentary opposition under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership of the Labour Party.
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Provoked perhaps by the realization that this may well be the way things go without an intervention, billionaire philanthropist Charles Koch's foundation and George Soros' Open Society Foundations have recently put their backing into a new venture called the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.
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Edmure tells the group that he's a senior lord, a veteran of two wars, has some hand in statecraft and — well, before he can continue he's cut off by Sansa who clearly doesn't have time for her uncle pretending he's going to be ruler one day.
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"You do not want to have a situation where countries are left without a direct link to the president for that long," said Julianne Smith, director of the Strategy and Statecraft Program at the Center for a New American Security, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank.
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As Secretary of State, Clinton undertook a major push -- what she called her "Economic Statecraft" agenda -- largely premised on the idea that America should make far better, more systematic use of economic instruments, like investment, monetary policy, or foreign aid, to achieve its foreign policy objectives.
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President Trump enjoyed yesterday's episode of "The Trump Show": He played the president he sometimes fantasizes being — a post-partisan leader, bigger than Republican or Democrat, a celebrity dealmaker with no firm attachments, who'd overwhelm Washington through the sheer strength of statecraft and deal-cutting genius.
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I don't know whether and to what extent Macron realizes that, but I suspect that Germans, and their followers, are making a very serious mistake by humiliating, underestimating and rudely challenging this highly erudite and skillful politician who seems increasingly attracted to concepts of Gaullist statecraft.
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On Thursday, he reverted to more traditional statecraft, giving the Treasury new authority to impose sanctions against firms that trade with North Korea, in a move that potentially opens the way for the US to take aim at Chinese businesses that bolster Kim Jong Un's regime.
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In between the discussions of diplomacy, business and statecraft, Mr. Broidy wrote, he and the president "spoke for several minutes about politics and the fund-raising efforts for the midterm elections as well as the state of affairs at the R.N.C.," or the Republican National Committee.
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This feels as good as it has across all the entries of the series, and if you've made peace with the politics, the shape of masculinity and statecraft and shooting violence that is part and parcel of this world, then you will enjoy what this is.
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Bolton has attended the group&aposs conferences, and long served as its most powerful advocate in Washington DC.Eli Clifton, an expert on US foreign policy at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, told Business Insider that the MEK had long advocated the assassination of Iranian regime officials.
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"In recognition of the opportunities and challenges that lay ahead and the increasing convergence of cyber security and digital economy issues, it is clear that cyber statecraft requires a more deliberate and systematic treatment than the stand-alone office of a coordinator can provide," the official wrote.
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For some of Mr. Trump's advisers, the key to understanding his statecraft is not how he deals with Mr. Xi or Ms. Merkel, but the ideological contest over America's role that plays out daily between the West Wing and agencies like the State Department and the Pentagon.
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Netanyahu has scored a string of statecraft goals with the help of President Donald Trump: U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital and of Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Golan Heights, as well as Washington's withdrawal from world powers' 2015 nuclear deal with Israel's arch regional foe Iran.
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Mr. Trump, who has little experience with foreign policy statecraft or news conferences with heads of state, made no obvious mistakes during his trip to Mexico, nor did he breach any protocol during his public appearance with Mr. Peña Nieto on a small stage at the presidential palace.
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"The gap between President Trump's ambitious promises and actual policies is large and growing," said William C. Inboden, a White House aide under President George W. Bush and now executive director of the William P. Clements Jr. Center on History, Strategy and Statecraft at the University of Texas.
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With Chinese politicians studiously dull and the country's statecraft closely stage-managed, salvos from the state-controlled news media — which President George H.W. Bush, a former United States ambassador to China, called cannons of rhetoric — offer a more direct, and inflammatory, guide to the thinking of the Beijing government.
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Yuval Levin's book recommendations: Democracy in America by Alexis De Tocqueville The Quest for Community by Robert Nisbet Statecraft as Soulcraft by George Will If you enjoyed this episode, you may also like: David French on "The Great White Culture War" George Will makes the conservative case against democracy
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Johnson said in a letter to European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker that not reaching a deal would be "a failure of statecraft for which we would all be responsible" as the British are scheduled to leave the EU at the end of the month (The Associated Press).
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It's also important to realize that even if no evidence of shady business dealings comes to light, the perception of possible corruption interferes with statecraft, and is enough to add to the mounting list of concerns about Trump's refusal to fully sever his business ties while he's in office.
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"The policies aren't changing; in some ways, they're getting worse," said Stephen Wertheim, a historian and the co-founder of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a new research group in Washington financed by prominent billionaires — George Soros, a liberal, and Charles Koch, a conservative — who advocate American military restraint.
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I can say that I worked with Secretary Clinton extensively when she was secretary and I was chairman of the bank and she was very supportive of exports, understanding that exports are about creating good jobs and exports are about extending our economic statecraft and commercial diplomacy around the world.
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" The report describes Russia, China, Iran and North Korea as the main state actors who "are using cyber operations as a low-cost tool of statecraft, and we assess that they will work to use cyber operations to achieve strategic objectives unless they face clear repercussions for their cyber operations.
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TV's "Rising" program features Chuck Rocha, senior adviser to the Sanders's presidential campaign; Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute For Responsible Statecraft, to react to the situation in Iran, Michael Pregent, senior fellow, Hudson Institute, and Aaron Maté, host of "Pushback," all to discuss the situation in Iran.
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The photographs of elaborate flower arrangements in "Paperwork and the Will of Capital" obliquely evoke the various occasions on which the arrangements were originally presented — signings of treaties between nations, carefully worded contracts agreed to by multinationals — and become a pretext for an investigation into the complexities of statecraft, history and horticulture.
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One, David C. Bohnett, emailed: "As a trustee of the Kennedy Center, I'm guided by the words of President Kennedy, from October, 1963, as etched on the walls of his living memorial: 'I look forward to an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft.'"
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TV's "Rising" program features Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute For Responsible Statecraft, to react to Soleimani's death; Joseph Geevarghese, executive director of Our Revolution, to discuss the media and Sanders's presidential bid; and Aaron Maté, host of "The Pushback," to talk about foreign policy in the 2628 campaign.
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"We have warned the UK government that it must conduct an honest and transparent investigation into the activity of the Integrity Initiative and the Institute for Statecraft ... The outrageously illicit use of the British taxpayers&apos money to organize a smear campaign against Jeremy Corbyn and entire Labour party must not remain unpunished!"
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After a state visit to Britain, scheduled for 2017, was cancelled and a summit in Canada in 2018 was marred by protests, including a mass "mooning" by activists, Mr Trump's enthusiasm for global statecraft was revived by a tour of China and the Philippines in 2019, notable for pageantry and police brutality in equal measure.
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The Director of National Intelligence's most recent annual assessment of threats facing the United States from 2018 pointed directly to sophisticated digital attacks by China, Russia, Iran and North Korea, all of which make use of the "low-cost tool of statecraft" to gather information on US policy, US citizens and national security data.
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Abandoning the Trans-Pacific Partnership, declaring its intention to withdraw from the Paris climate accord, decertifying the nuclear deal with Iran, and asserting a "national security" rationale for imposing tariffs on longstanding European and Asian allies all steer the United States away from the course of statecraft from which it benefited in the twentieth century.
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Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE epitomized this philosophy as secretary of state, making the practice of "economic statecraft" a hallmark of her tenure at Foggy Bottom.
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Once presciently interested in climate change—the scientist Thatcher had organized an early conference, in 1989, devoted to "Saving the Ozone Layer," and a subsequent seminar at which she sat with the environmentalist James Lovelock—she appeared to recant it all in the book "Statecraft" (2002), a dull collection of right-wing speeches and anecdotes.
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It's her fidelity to the story and the ordinary people swept up in historical events — particularly victims of the "evil stupidity" of nations at war, the "lies and chicanery" of statecraft and the global propaganda machine — that make Gellhorn's novel "A Stricken Field" (1940) essential reading for the political moment we're living through today.
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Clinton: Trump win would be like Christmas for the Kremlin And he does not seem to be a hard-nosed preacher of realism in statecraft like former secretary of state Henry Kissinger either, and his willingness to countenance the use of force against groups like ISIS appears to rule out the idea that he is a classic isolationist.
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A seeming lack of prerelease analysis of 'what might happen' to the agent, force or country which provided the information The conduct of the meeting and the passing of intelligence is simply amateurish statecraft and intelligence tradecraft, and begs the question: Who are the professionals planning the strategy and operations that direct the President on the world stage?
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The newly declassified sources illustrate how, in a formidable exercise of statecraft, Israel's prime minister detached the Palestinian issue from the overall proceedings, without substantive opposition from Mr. Sadat and with Mr. Carter's implicit understanding of a diminished outcome: The Israeli delegation deployed deliberate legal ambiguities on the Palestinian issue and limited the extent of a settlement freeze.
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" Russia, China, Iran and North Korea will pose the greatest cyber threats to the US during the next year, Coats said, adding that "these states are using cyber operations as a low-cost tool of statecraft, and we assess that they will work to use cyber operations to achieve strategic objectives unless they face clear repercussions.
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A quarter of a century ago, she and Philip Zelikow, both of whom served as midlevel officials in President George H. W. Bush's National Security Council, described the virtuoso statecraft that brought the Cold War to a peaceful conclusion in "Germany Unified and Europe Transformed" — a kind of bookend to the world-ordering labors of Marshall and Acheson.
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"The people who know a lot about security and hacking assumed that the C.I.A. was at least investing in these capabilities, and if they weren't, then somebody else was — China, Iran, Russia, as well as a lot of other private actors," said Beau Woods, the deputy director of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative at the Atlantic Council in Washington.
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Analysts say Russia's power play in Kurdistan was just the latest example of a trend that has accelerated this year: In places like Iraq, Venezuela, Cuba, and North Korea, Russian oil is emerging as a powerful counterweight to U.S. political and economic statecraft, with the effect of undercutting U.S. objectives in a way that's alarming U.S. policymakers and members of Congress.
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Michael Pillsbury, a fluent Mandarin speaker who has served in senior national security positions in the U.S. government since the days of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, draws on his decades of contact with the "hawks" in China's military and intelligence agencies and translates their documents, speeches, and books to show how the teachings of traditional Chinese statecraft underpin their actions.
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I realize the idea here is a "back-to-the-basics" plot, where we see whether Daenerys can win over a kingdom on pure messianic charisma, but her lessons in statecraft were finally beginning to become interesting: In contrast to the scheming for power that typified every other storyline, the Meereen scenes showed us how actual day-to-day governance wore on somebody who already had it.
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While his father plied his statecraft at the chateau (or indulged his hobbies — fencing, riding, shooting and flying planes), his mother toiled at the rental mansion, cooking dinner on a "wounded behemoth" of a wood-fired cast-iron stove, and wrangling old-world domestic staff: coal men, gardeners, maids and a floor polisher who bound brushes to his feet and skated across the parquet.
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Novice mistake or bold statecraft disguised as matter of fact event, President-elect Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE's telephone conversation with Taiwanese leader Tsai Ing-Wen was a historic break with U.S. policy, overturning 37 years of bipartisan uniformity and infuriating Beijing.
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But Russia has a built-in statecraft safety net against augmented foreign forces in the region even as it escalates tensions: the NATO-Russia Act of 1997 contains a pledge by NATO to refrain from the "additional permanent station of significant combat forces," said Simon Saradzhyan, project director at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard's Kennedy School and assistant director of the U.S.-Russia Initiative to Prevent Nuclear Terrorism.
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The intellectual case against the European project was first made by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, in her seminal Bruges speech, delivered nearly 30 years ago, and followed later by her 2002 book, "Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World," where she raised the possibility of Britain leaving the EU. It is no coincidence that the Conservative government today is, like Thatcher's three-term administration, the most pro-American, pro-Atlanticist, pro-free market and anti-Moscow in Europe.
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Bob CorkerRobert (Bob) Phillips CorkerTrump announces, endorses ambassador to Japan's Tennessee Senate bid Meet the key Senate player in GOP fight over Saudi Arabia Trump says he's 'very happy' some GOP senators have 'gone on to greener pastures' MORE (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who on Tuesday was stunned by Trump's handling of the Qatar situation, defended Trump on Thursday, saying his largely successful overseas trip shows he is learning the art of statecraft.
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