Definition of statecraft
:the art of conducting state affairs
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The dispute between Qatar and the quartet including Egypt and the GCC states (Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain) is in many ways a dispute about the exercise of economic statecraft.
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For the United States, the value of skilled statecraft lies in the ability to tie competing nation-states up in knots by engaging their national-security interests in ways that benefit America.
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This containment theory requires vigilance and statecraft – and a measure of hope that enough Russians will tire of isolation and economic stagnation.
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Two factors explain why the Russia bill will curb the utility of sanctions as a tool of statecraft.
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In a parallel universe, one in which the American president had a rudimentary grasp of Russian history and statecraft and an appreciation for diplomacy, this would be a short meeting—five minutes tops.
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However, to portray these differences of statecraft as moving from interdependence to independence—
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The political Netflix series, starring Kevin Spacey and RobinWright, thrives on mirroring the more conniving side of U.S. statecraft, combing through American history to find story lines that feed and shape its White House narrative.
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Rep. Francis Rooney, Vatican ambassador from 2005-2008, said much of the statecraft occurs on the sidelines of the main event, in meetings between the countries' chief diplomats.
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