Word: statecraft
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International relations: Global security can no longer be preserved through focus on nation-states alone. The spectrum of transnational threats, from terrorists to international drug cartels, must be an additional subject of national-security focus. The traditional tools of war fighting and statecraft must be blended with the skills of development, policing, cultural studies, and institution building...
...meetings designed to restrict the spread of nuclear weapons. But Iran's resistance to international pressure threatens the credibility of the entire enterprise. Rather than opening a new era of international cooperation on nuclear nonproliferation, the next four weeks of summitry look more like stagecraft designed to hide failing statecraft...
...colleague told me Gates will cancel a briefing if he hasn't done his homework. "Preparation for him is a cathartic experience," says his spokesman Morrell. He vents brutal answers to imaginary questions so he can be more diplomatic on the Hill. He's vigilant about the stagecraft of statecraft, even taking his own messy handwritten notes to meetings so his preparation can be seen. (See photos of Obama's West Point speech...
...officers would barely crew one aircraft carrier. "We joke that Gates is the best surrogate for the State Department. He always makes the point that we are underfunded and underresourced," says a Clinton staffer. At the same time, the Pentagon has assumed more of the burdens of diplomacy and statecraft. The building contains its own mini State Department, with regional deputies and country officers making policies. And that whole structure is replicated at the office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...echoes that of many climate scientists. Do they push for the strict carbon-emissions reductions that many studies say are necessary to prevent serious global warming or do they accept weaker but more politically realistic targets? Whether it's conservation or climate change, science must often give way to statecraft...