Globalisation thus implies that sovereignty...needs to become weaker.

States would be wise to weaken sovereignty in order to protect themselves.

Television was our chief tool in selling our policy.

If the president Donald Trump had connected the Jerusalem question to some other positions, linking it to Israeli and Palestinian behavior or putting the Jerusalem statement in a larger context of U.S. policy, it could have potentially advanced the peace process. But I don't see how singling it out might help.

You cannot be effective if those who work for you are not. So building their effectiveness ought to be a priority.

Shockingly enough, what people say during campaigns is meant to increase the odds they get elected.

I think what Mr. Trump has made clear is that he would not undertake optional wars, what I have called wars of choice, a la, say Iraq in 2003 or Libya, for the purposes of transforming another country. It's not clear whether Hillary Clinton, if she were to have the opportunity, would do such a thing again or whether she would have taken a - the lesson from both Iraq and Libya that we ought not to be undertaking those kinds of wars of choice.