Nothing generates more heat in the government than the question of who is chosen to participate in important meetings.

A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.

As countries grapple with modernization, people who are left behind tend to hold firmer and firmer to their view of the evil of modernity.

United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony.

Nothing generates more heat in the government than the question of who is chosen to participate in important meetings.

Bureaucracies have a natural tendency not to cooperate, coordinate or consolidate with each other. They won't cooperate with each other - unless they are forced to do so by political level authority.

Diplomacy is like jazz: endless variations on a theme.