When diplomacy ends, War begins.
Adolf HitlerTags: international-relations
Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas.
Ian FlemingTags: international-relations
If blue helmeted UN peacekeepers show up in your town or village and offer to protect you, run.
Andrew ThomsonTags: international-relations thought-provoking un peacekeeping
...foreign policy is a matter of costs and benefits, not theology.
Fareed ZakariaTags: international-relations foreign-affairs national-policy
Palestinian and Israeli leaders finally recover the Road Map to Peace, only to discover that, while they were looking for it, the Lug Nuts of Mutual Interest came off the Front Left Wheel of Accommodation, causing the Sport Utility Vehicle of Progress to crash into the Ditch of Despair.
Dave BarryTags: politics international-relations dark-humor israel palestine middle-east lug-nuts
The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
Samuel P. HuntingtonTags: international-relations violence western-civilization world-order
Far too many people—many of them academics, many politicians—continue to jabber about a supposed 'special relationship' between our two countries.
I used to think that no such thing existed. Recently, I have become convinced that it does, and that it is in fact a Specially Bad Relationship.
Tags: united-states international-relations england uk-us-relations special-relationship
Americans may say they love our accents (I have been accused of sounding 'like Princess Di') but the more thoughtful ones resent and rather dislike us as a nation and people, as friends of mine have found out by being on the edge of conversations where Americans assumed no Englishmen were listening.
And it is the English, specifically, who are the targets of this. Few Americans have heard of Wales. All of them have heard of Ireland and many of them think they are Irish. Scotland gets a sort of free pass, especially since Braveheart re-established the Scots' anti-English credentials among the ignorant millions who get their history off the TV.
Tags: history united-states international-relations irish television ireland scotland paranoia americans eavesdropping scots wales uk-us-relations britons accents anti-british-sentiment braveheart princess-diana united-kingdom
The Nation, which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest. ... The Nation, prompted by ill-will and resentment, sometimes impels to war the Government, contrary to the best calculations of policy. The Government sometimes participates in the national propensity, and adopts through passion what reason would reject; at other times, it makes the animosity of the nation subservient to projects of hostility instigated by pride, ambition, and other sinister and pernicious motives. The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim.
George WashingtonTags: international-relations
In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universality of Western culture suffers three problems: it is false; it is immoral; and it is dangerous.
Samuel P. HuntingtonTags: international-relations culture western-civilization cultural-biases western-culture westernization
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