E. Belfort Bax Quotes

All foreign policy is the intervention of one nation's domestic politics into another nation's domestic politics.

Even allies don’t share every single interest that you have. That’s a law of nature in the international system. They will tell you most of what you need to know but there may be some things that they don’t tell you that you need to know in order to formulate your policy as wisely as you can.

Unilateral preemption should not in any way be the model for how we conduct international relations.

The clever, albeit fragile, coalition against terrorism brought together by the U.S. government might be able to advance the transition from classical international law to a cosmopolitan order.

Every government is in some respects a problem for every other government.

I don’t talk to countries that exhibit bad behavior.

Multilateralism may be little more than a polite way of camouflaging what is in practice unilateralism with allies.

Never in all the long years of strife and struggle has a parliamentary conduct of international affairs been successful.

… make Englishmen cognizant of the processes through which the progressive destinies of Europe are being worked out, so that whenever European Affairs may call for interference, they may be in no doubt as to the course to be pursued.

In international relations, you don't base your work on hope.

We have to acknowledge and discuss with citizens that Germany needs to take on more responsibility. One of the questions is, 'Can we keep a functioning international order?'

Our relations with the other powers of Europe have experienced no essential change since the last session.

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

There are nearly 200 countries and a population of over 6 billion in today's world. International affairs should be addressed by all countries through consultations rather than monopolised by a few powers.

In international relations, in foreign policy, a great deal has to do with historical circumstances, a great deal has to do with the sense and perception of people.

All in all, the League of Nations is not inevitably bound, as some maintain from time to time, to degenerate into an impotent appendage of first one, then another of the competing great powers.

The United States has some people in Europe with whom we disagree on this matter and a large number of people in Europe, including governments in Europe, with whom we agree.

I think if you're going to master policy, especially world affairs, you've got to know history.

There are legitimate, even powerful arguments, to be made against the Bush administration's foreign policy. But those arguments are complicated, hard to explain, and, in the end, not all that sensational.

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

The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.

After September 11, the European governments have completely failed. They are incapable of seeing beyond their own national scope of interests.

We cannot solve the problem of terrorism by asserting our will on the world.

We must settle our accounts with great and superpowers, and show them that we can take on the whole world ideology, despite all the painful problems that face us.

No country can dictate its laws to the world.