statecraft

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But the country sits in a better position than its neighbours, after years of statecraft that have prepared it for a global energy crisis.

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026

Adept at balancing ideological loyalty with pragmatic statecraft, Larijani will not attend the talks, but is central to Tehran's nuclear policy and strategic diplomacy.

From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026

Douglass now recognized Lincoln’s early caution as wise statecraft, a way to hold together a North where many opposed slavery but balked at equality.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025

Managing conflict defined the aim of statecraft, at least until history purportedly ended in the 1990s.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

Like an ancestor volume of Machiavelli’s The Prince, De Ora- tore is a treatise on statecraft that casts light on the idea of the state.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith