statecraft

But beyond the staid statecraft, the summit and sideline events featured plenty of nods to the host country's vibrant pop culture and history.

But even a quiet meeting with the emperor suggests the Japanese know, like their counterparts in the U.K., how to wield their monarchy as a tool of statecraft.

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.

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

Don’t misunderstand my tone as laudatory: In 17-plus years as prime minister across four decades, Netanyahu has continually outdone himself in viciousness, criminal depravity and shamelessly immoral or amoral statecraft.