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Feb. 20, 2017
statecraft\STEYT-kraft, -krahft\noun
1. the art of government and diplomacy.
QuotesStatecraft at the highest level is a most exacting human
activity, one that presents distinctive moral dilemmas.
-- William Lee Miller, President Lincoln: The Duty of a Statesman, 2008
Origin of statecraftStatecraft in modern usage has a positive
connotation or at least a neutral one. From the time of William Penn
(16441718) to the present, statecraft has also meant cunning, devious
politics or statesmanship. The word entered English in the mid-17th
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