What makes his hapless journey worth comment, however, is the need to think again about the theory of statecraft that led the British foreign secretary to try to enlist Iran, a state most deeply involved in terrorism, in the war against terrorism.
Over the past 16 years or so, Israel largely descended into the European statecraft abyss.
Churchill might tell me something about the art of statecraft, or Fry about the pressures of fame and the joy of words, but someone closer to home, with a life more like mine and challenges more like mine, will tell me far more about a life with mental health difficulty and how best to live it.
In Europe, it is money, not safety, that is corroding traditional diplomatic marriage, and thus the home-based hospitality that oils the wheels of statecraft.
The globalized nature of world politics has given rise to a host of new challengers and a myriad of new challenges for the practitioners of statecraft.
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"Manmohan Singh is guilty of pursuing the noble quest for reconciliation at the expense of another maxim of statecraft: those who spurn the public authority's hand of reconciliation must be made to learn the cost of confrontation, " concludes Mr Khare.
Second, led by Yediot, the media prefer to portray Barak's buffoonery as courageous statecraft than acknowledge the massive cost of his failure.
At the time, that looked like good statecraft and in fairness to the Dayton accord, it was a clever mixture of short-time partition and long-term reconciliation.
It was after all Europe that brought the world the art of rational statecraft.
Under the 32-year dictatorship of Suharto, which ended ten years ago this week, Indonesia, in keeping with the traditions of Javanese statecraft, used its clout discreetly.
Accentuating and cultivating the areas of agreement, while resolving or minimizing the differences, is the essence of diplomacy and statecraft.
In the meantime, one of the weapons America must deploy against al-Qaeda is traditional statecraft, which often entails opportunistic alliances with the sort of regimes in Egypt, Kazakhstan, Pakistan Americans would not choose to be governed by themselves.
In her book Statecraft, she described the European Union as "perhaps the greatest folly of the modern era".
In her 2002 book, Statecraft, she suggested the European single currency was an attempt to create a "European super state" and would fail "economically, politically and socially".
Political progress in Iraq depends on this kind of steady statecraft and patient diplomacy on the ground in Baghdad, rather than scapegoating and congressionally-ordered coups.
To this end, Mr Davies concentrates on statecraft, culture and language as the makers of collective identity.
Whatever Avigdor Lieberman's drawbacks may be, they clearly don't include excessive worship of the international community's taste for opulent statecraft or a desperate desire to be loved by Europe.
That's a common approach for the Holy See, said Rooney, author of "The Global Vatican, " a study of 1, 200 years of statecraft by Catholic popes and priests.
It would this appear that Russian opposition to sanctions in Sudan is not purely a self-interested act or ploy, but actually reflects a comprehensive understanding of diplomacy and statecraft, one very different from our own, that is predicated above all else on the understanding that the first order of business for any regime is survival.
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W. Griffith's 1915 epic "Birth of a Nation, " but the film ultimately affirms Lincoln's recognition that compromise (including possible moral compromise) is an indispensable element of statecraft.
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