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...will. In Diplomacy (Simon & Schuster; 912 pages; $35), a sweeping portrayal of historical forces that begins with Cardinal Richelieu and ends with the challenges facing the world today, Kissinger makes the most forceful case by any American statesman since Theodore Roosevelt for the role of realism and its Prussian-accented cousin realpolitik in international affairs. Just as Kennan's odd admixture of romanticism and realism helped shape American attitudes at the outset of the cold war, Kissinger's emphasis on national interests rather than moral sentiments defines a framework for ^ dealing with the multipolar world now emerging. He has produced...
...Benito Mussolini. Early Tuesday in Rome's Piazza del Popolo, a traditional rallying point, hundreds of admirers threw stiff-armed salutes and shouted, "Duce!" -- the chant that greeted Mussolini seven decades ago. Three days later, Fini praised the former dictator who allied himself with Hitler as "the greatest statesman of the century...
...sponsored violence against anti-apartheid political parties are emerging as serious threats to a peaceful transfer of power. At this important moment, editor Steve Clark and Pathfinder Press have done us a great service, collecting public addresses made over the past four years by South Africa's most prominent statesman in Nelson Mandela Speaks: Forging a Democratic, Nonracial South Africa. In the 31 separate appearances before student groups, trade unions, community organizations, branches of the ANC and audiences in the United States and Cuba, Mandela develops his vision for a geographically united, politically stable and economically viable democracy...
...rash decisions. The knee-jerk reaction in Bosnia would have been intervention. In Somalia, it would have been a hasty withdrawal. In China, it would have meant revocation of most-favored-nation trade status. On the contrary, Clinton's decisions have been the measured responses of a seasoned statesman...
...Since [Reyes] was elected treasurer, he might want to do the statesman-like thing and let it go," Rauch added...