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And the Hobbesian view and its correlated emphasis on balance-of-power arrangements would find its first expression in a remarkable ancient Indian text on statecraft.—Abhijnan Rej, Christian Science Monitor, 11 June 2025 American leaders no longer have the luxury of conducting statecraft poorly.—Dennis Ross, Foreign Affairs, 19 Mar. 2025 Particularly for economies as exposed as Turkey’s, careful economic statecraft is vital to limit the fallout of trade and technology wars, supply chain disruptions, and other manifestations of geopolitical uncertainty.—Mustafa Kutlay, Foreign Affairs, 15 May 2025 But only Pope John XXIII—whose fraternal letter to President John F. Kennedy and the Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev is thought to have eased the Cuban missile crisis—can be credited with an act of statecraft that helped preserve peace between nations.—Paul Elie, New Yorker, 9 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for statecraft
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