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American leaders no longer have the luxury of conducting statecraft poorly.
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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
The notion of offering market access in exchange for geopolitical alignment—a hallmark of U.S. statecraft during the Cold War—is increasingly obsolete in today's political climate, with its populist emphasis on the American working class.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Apr. 2025
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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
The notion of offering market access in exchange for geopolitical alignment—a hallmark of U.S. statecraft during the Cold War—is increasingly obsolete in today's political climate, with its populist emphasis on the American working class.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Apr. 2025
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“Statecraft.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/statecraft. Accessed 11 Jun. 2025.
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statecraft
noun
state·craft
ˈstāt-ˌkraft 
: the art of conducting government affairs
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