Statecraft can only be about reading the systemic imperatives aright - no other basis for choice remains.
Reform begins in politics but it ends in administrative statecraft.
This elitist colonization of the discipline continues to persist in large measure, coloring our vision of stateformation and statecraft.
The next problem, then, is political - statecraft is soulcraft.
As with other twentiethcentury experiments in state planning, the lines separating policy from propaganda and statecraft from mass politics were difficult to discern.
They reinforced in theory and practice the statecraft school political philosophy, that is, institutional change within tradition; and they galvanised learning.
In this vein, the importance of "concrete studies," which included technical aspects of learning connected with statecraft, was advanced.
Under realism, threats are the currency of international politics, and the rational deployment of threats is at the core of effective statecraft.
