“A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it's not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It's more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together.” PeopleThinkingTogetherMovingGamesBallsRelationStrategyInternationalChessBunchInternational RelationsBilliards Author:Madeleine Albright
“Fifty-seven countries in the world, a third of the United Nations, do not recognize Israel. In a way, I think North Korea has better international relations than Israel.” ThinkingWorldWayCountryNationsUnitedThirdsRelationSevenInternationalIsraelFiftyUnited NationsKoreaNorth KoreaInternational Relations Author:Abdallah II
“It has always been my view that terrorism is not spawned by the poverty of money; it is spawned by the poverty of dignity. Humiliation is the most underestimated force in international relations and in human relations. It is when people or nations are humiliated that they really lash out and engage in extreme violence.” PeopleHumansForceNationsViewsPovertyViolenceDignityRelationInternationalExtremesTerrorismHumiliationInternational RelationsHuman RelationsHumiliatedLashesUnderestimated Author:Thomas Friedman
“The agony of international relations is the need to try to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order.” NeedsTryingPoliticalOrderPoliticsPracticeConditionsRelationInternationalAgonyInternational Relations Book:In Defence of Politics Source: In Defence of Politics
“We want harmonious development, ... We should work together for more democratic and law-based international relations, and a harmonious environment in which countries respect one another, treat one another as equals, and different cultures can emulate and interchange with each other.” WantShouldDifferentCountryTogetherLawCultureEnvironmentDevelopmentRespectTreatsRelationDemocraticInternationalWorking TogetherTeamworkCollaborationInternational RelationsRespecting OthersHarmoniousEmulateDifferent CulturesInterchange Author:Li Zhaoxing
“Therefore, every country has to understand that fighting against international terrorism is not for the sake of the United States, but for the sake of themselves, and, to a larger extent, in the name of stability of international relations.” CountryStatesFightingNamesUnitedUnited StatesRelationSakeInternationalTerrorismStabilityInternational RelationsInternational Terrorism Author:Omar Bongo
“Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations. Man's capacity for decent behavior seems to vary directly with his perception of others as individual humans with human motives and feelings, whereas his capacity for barbarism seems related to his perception of an adversary in abstract terms, as the embodiment, that is, of some evil design or ideology.” PeopleMenHumansFeelingsSeemsFormTurnsEvilIndividualNationsTermDesignCommunicationBehaviorPerceptionCapacityRelationInternationalEducationalIdeologyRelatedMotiveAbstractDecentAdversariesVaryInternational RelationsContributingEmbodimentBarbarismPerception Of Others Author:J. William Fulbright
“The concept of national sovereignty has been an immutable, indeed sacred, principle of international relations. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and reluctantly to the new imperatives of global environmental cooperation. It is simply not feasible for sovereignty to be exercised unilaterally by individual nation states, however powerful. The global community must be assured of environmental security.” Has BeensStatesIndividualEnergyNationsCommunityPowerfulPrinciplesPowerEnvironmentSecurityConceptsRelationSacredEnvironmentalClimate ChangeInternationalYieldCooperationSovereignSovereigntyAssuredImperativesNationalityInternational RelationsReluctantSlownessNational SovereigntyGlobal CommunityUnilateralism Author:Maurice Strong
“Kyoto protocol is not a simple environmental issue, where you can say scientists are not unanimous. This is about international relations, this is about the economy, about trying to create a level playing field for big businesses throughout the world. You have to understand what is at stake, and that is why it is serious.” WorldTryingBigsSimpleLevelsEconomyIssuesFieldsSeriousScientistRelationEnvironmentalClimate ChangeInternationalGlobal WarmingStakesInternational RelationsBig BusinessPlaying FieldsProtocolKyotoEnvironmental IssuesLevel Playing FieldKyoto Protocol Author:Margot Wallstrom
“It would appear that, on the level of individual nations and of international relations, the free market is the most efficient instrument for utilizing resources and effectively responding to needs.” NeedsIndividualNationsChallengesLevelsInspireResourcesRelationInstrumentsInternationalEfficientProvokingFree MarketInternational RelationsRespondingUtilizing Book:Pope John Paul II: A Reader Source: Pope John Paul II: A Reader
“Realising the healthy international relations can be created only among populations made up of individuals who themselves are healthy and enjoy a measure a independence, the United Nations elaborated a Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted by the U.N. General Assembly on December 10, 1948.” HumansMadeIndividualNationsEnjoyUnitedRightsMoralityHealthyUniversalRelationIndependenceInternationalHuman RightsPopulationRealisingDeclarationUnited NationsAdoptedAssemblyInternational RelationsDecemberGeneral AssemblyDeclaration Of Human Rights Book:Ideas and Opinions Source: Ideas and Opinions