Word: statecraft
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...leaders who might be expected to attend a P.L.O. parliament meeting scheduled in Cairo next month that they will not be allowed back if they go. Even Israeli doves are skeptical about whether Arafat, who once threatened to throw the Israelis into the sea, can be trusted with peaceable statecraft. For that reason, the Israelis will insist in any negotiations over the West Bank's future that they be allowed to maintain military posts along the Jordan River, which separates Israel proper from the West Bank. As an added protection against the future, they have so far established...
Forgetful of the wisdom and skilled statecraft by which the founding fathers won our independence and secured our safety, and disdainful of the techniques by which all nations−even the U.S.−must preserve their interests, we entered the 20th century largely unprepared for the part we would be called upon to play...
Beginning the play as an erstwhile rakehell son, Henry (Paul Rudd) ends it as the lord of two realms who is planning to father an heir. The purpose of that utterly beguiling last-act courtship scene with Katherine (Meryl Streep) is, apart from statecraft, to show us that he has triumphantly undergone the arduous initiation rites of manhood...
Thai Politician-Publisher Kukrit Pramoj 13 years ago took a respite from statecraft and journalism for a brief fling at the movies. In the film version of The Ugly American, Kukrit got surprisingly good reviews for his portrayal of the democratic Prime Minister of a mythical Southeast Asia nation called Sarkhan. The movie Prime Minister was besieged and almost overthrown by Communists, largely because of a meddling U.S. ambassador (played by Marlon Brando...
Moynihan sees nothing inconsistent between such ideological attacks on the Soviets and the policy of detente, which he considers an act of statecraft" by , Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger "that has not had its equal in our time." The trouble, he believes, is that most Americans fail to understand detente because it involves an inconsistency: the conflict between a "technological imperative" that demands cooperation between the two superpowers to prevent nuclear war, and an "ideological imperative" that demands competition. Detente may well mean more rather than less ideological conflict. But living with such contradictions, he argues breezily...