Word: statecraft
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...identical twin, a widow whom Mobutu took as a mistress some years ago and with whom he promptly had several children. Though such behavior has roots in African tradition, it has led to raucous family turmoil that represents a significant drain on the time Mobutu devotes to statecraft...
...AVALANCHE OF ADVICE CROSSing the President-elect's desk, there is a dearth of guidance on truly crucial matters -- like whether dressing as if you're going to church is necessary for the photo op boarding Marine One for the hop to Camp David. Statecraft may define a presidency, but so will small acts at the margin. Who knows? If Richard Nixon hadn't dressed the White House guards like Prussian police, he might have survived Watergate. There would have been no need for the fashion-obsessed Nancy Reagan to debase herself at a Gridiron Club dinner dressed up like...
...reliable rule of statecraft that it is hard to win at the bargaining table what you are unable or unwilling to win on the battlefield. Henry Kissinger, a cold-eyed realist and practitioner of power politics, knew this well. During the four years that he negotiated America's exit from Vietnam, he regularly resisted those people -- ranging from Defense Secretary Melvin Laird to the doves in the Senate -- who wanted to speed up troop withdrawals and, in Kissinger's view, undercut U.S. leverage at the Paris peace talks. And after the peace accord was signed in January 1973, he repeatedly...
Title,Author Barillari Wordsworth HBS* CoopPeloponnesian War,Thucydides $5.95 $7.16 $5.95 $5.36Force and Statecraft,Craig and George -- -- 13.95 15.00Thirteen Days,Kennedy -- 4.46 -- 6.50Bound to Lead...
Title,Author Barillari Wordsworth HBS* CoopPeloponnesian War,Thucydides $5.95 $7.16 $5.95 $5.36Force and Statecraft,Craig and George -- -- 13.95 15.00Thirteen Days,Kennedy -- 4.46 -- 6.50Bound to Lead...