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Politics : High Tolerance Plasticity -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (7989)	9/16/2001 4:49:27 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23153

Sun Tzu is probably more enduring than Machiavelli; but for diplomatic history as a whole, the nature of inter-state relations has gone through clear phases, each of which has its own qualities. The nineteenth century world knew nothing about "transnational actors" or "multilateral organizations" (the Congress of Vienna was a treaty not an ongoing institution), much less "global issues" and "transnational corporations". Not to mention weapons of mass destruction, instant communications, almost unlimited international travel and a dozen other things I have not included. Was it Sun Tzu or someone else who pointed out that generals are always trying to re-fight the last war instead of the war they face today. That's where looking back too much gets you. The Great Game was a romanticized practice by several closed, elitist regimes that ended in the horrors of World War 1 when technology overtook the warfare that the experts thought they understood. Try this - you snooze, you lose. That is today's world.