Paul Arthur Quotes

National boundaries are blurred by advanced communications and global commerce, and by the decisions of States to yield some sovereign prerogatives to larger, common political associations.

Foreign Policy has to be less foreign.

Foreign policy involves a good deal of domestic policy.

In this day and age, the U.S. and Europe do not have the luxury of focusing solely on a single region.

Local and national politics have now become irretrievably global because their economies are locked into the global system.

Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.

Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.

There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

The current global landscape is quite different from the not-too-distant past. The process of globalization has intensified, and the world is moving towards new forms of governance.

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

The internal affairs of other countries has a big impact on American interests.

Wherever people are free, foreign and domestic policy are inseparable.

There must of course always be separate interests of different nations which their governments are bound to maintain, but there are also common interests in which all civilized nations share. These common interests arise from the interdependence of civilized peoples and they are a product of developing civilization.

The Nation is ceasing to be the leading form off the world’s structure; organizations transcending national boundaries are becoming more and more numerous and effective.

France has always succeeded because it is part of the world.

It's been a great privilege to see how interwoven nations are and how incredibly complex these relationships are. It's so elaborate.

In the 1990s and the first decade of the 21st century, regionalism was seen as a building block of globalisation.

Anyone who tries to separate or divorce domestic politics from international politics does not get it, and that might be dangerous for the future of Western Muslims.

The statesmen still say that we should not interfere in the internal affairs of other nations and yet it is not possible any longer not to interfere, even when we do not mean to do so.

In the modern world, those who are weak will get unambiguous advice from foreign visitors which way to go and what policy course to pursue.

I'm a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.

Isolationism is over.

Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global.

I think the next president needs to lead on cultural issues and experience, particularly on foreign policy.