Word: statecraft
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...Richard Nixon appointed his friend Walter Annenberg Ambassador to the Court of St. James's in 1969, the choice was greeted with derision by much of the British press. The wealthy Annenberg, then publisher of TV Guide, the Daily Racing Form and two Philadelphia newspapers, knew nothing of statecraft. When he first met Queen Elizabeth II, he replied to her polite question about where he was living with his simulation of politesse: "We're in the embassy residence, subject, of course, to some of the discomfiture as a result of a need for, uh, elements of refurbishment...
...there had been nothing quite like Shultz in the past 20 years. The thing that most impressed Percy was "his marvelous background in economics." Shultz, a Ph.D. economist, is the first of that breed to preside over America's diplomacy. Economics, Percy believes, lies at the heart of modern statecraft. "And Shultz is not a turf fighter," concluded Percy, referring to Haig's terminal impulse to battle over every perk...
...dramatic death throes of Nixon's Administration. The third and last excerpt covers the dual dilemmas of competition and coexistence with the Soviet Union; memorable Kissinger encounters with the leaders of America's principal adversaries, Leonid Brezhnev and Mao Tse-tung; and some maxims culled from a career in statecraft...
...frightful new era in modern-day terrorism. To be sure, the 20th century does not lack for examples of political murder. But the threat of assassination of a head of government may now have been elevated by Gaddafi, in an era of worldwide terrorism, to a conscious act of statecraft by a sovereign nation. "For years after World War II, heads of state were considered off-limits to assassination teams," observes Paul Wilkinson, professor of international relations at Aberdeen University, Scotland. "If the reports are true, we are being faced with a sinister new development...
...intriguing thing these days, after so many unhappy personal eruptions, is that experts of both political parties in Washington share a growing regard for his foreign policy views. Following his footsteps through the labyrinthine back corridors of statecraft, one gets the unmistakable image of a man who feels compelled to confront both the extremists in Reagan's house and the far right on Capitol Hill. At the heart of it all is a struggle for Ronald Reagan's mind. The President's splendid speech on arms reduction in Europe was a vital signal in that unfinished drama...