Glenn Reynolds Quotes

Making coercive diplomacy work requires a mix of threats and promises—sticks and carrots.

It was not that the Americans lacked the capacity to force their allies into line… What is surprising is how rarely this happened…

Trump has got to define what he seeks to achieve with Russia, and then use diplomacy and sometimes coercion to achieve those ends. Right now, aside from this fight with ISIS, which I would underscore, you know, the Obama administration has been trying to fight ISIS with Russia for several years now.

America simply prefers to deal with dictators.

The management of a balance of power is a permanent undertaking, not an exertion that has a foreseeable end.

Success in diplomacy is often most advantageous when it is incomplete, an adversary needs an honorable path of retreat if we are to achieve our main policy goals through the reputation of our power rather than through the actual use of force.

Iran is for negotiations…. This is the principle of Iranian Foreign Policy…. Iranians should make sure that the United States is not using pressure on Iran for negotiations.

If the United States credibly threatens to treat Pakistan like it does Iran, Pakistan’s leaders would find it best to cooperate.

Not every threat to America's national interests can be addressed with military power.

The Patriots deflated balls are but an allegory for America's deflated balls in dealings with Putin, the Mullahs in Iran, and Islamic terrorists.

The one thing that I remember from all of my intelligence briefings and my dealings with the Russians is that when you deal with the Russians, you have to deal with them from strength, not from weakness.

I think to deal with Putin, you need to deal from strength. He's a bully, you enable bad behavior when you're nuanced with a guy like that.

It would be some time before I fully realized that the United States sees little need for diplomacy; power is enough. Only the weak rely on diplomacy. The Roman Empire had no need for diplomacy. Nor does the United States.

If diplomacy has any chance to work, it must be coupled with a credible military threat.

In international affairs, you never threaten things you're not prepared to do.

We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington.

Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.

American presidents always avoid shaking hands with brutal dictators, except when it's advantageous to do so.

American presence is, you know, the major cause of balance of power and the stability in this region.

No nation has friends only interests.

It is absolutely unacceptable to talk to Russia - or anyone for that matter - in the language of ultimatums and coercive measures.

You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done

Where is the evidence that Washington's world view sways the multitude of nations? To enlist support for its wars in Korea, Vietnam and in the Gulf, the United States had to resort to a lot of bribery and threats. At the United Nations, the US has, with noteworthy regularity, been on the minority side in voting on resolutions.

The United States has the right to use its friendly offices in discouragement of any movement on the part of neighboring states which may tend to disturb the balance of power between them.

World politics is not a kindergarten.