Affair Quote by Michael Klare

Every policy is shaped by two forces: background analysis and foreground politics. The political forces are loud, self-serving and, in the case of energy…

— Donella Meadows

International politics is no longer a zero-sum game but a multi-dimensional arena where cooperation and competition often occur simultaneously. Gone is the age of…

— Hassan Rouhani

There is a pressing need to integrate the study of international economics with the study of international politics to deepen our comprehension of the…

— Robert Gilpin

“Issues of power, control, energy fuels, and political strength have become key themes in our current events. We have come a long way from…

— Anodea Judith

The war and terrorism in the Middle East, the crisis of leadership in many of the oil-supply countries in the developing world, the crisis…

— Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Our dependence on foreign energy sources is our Achilles heel, not just in the realm of diplomacy, but in terms of our future as…

— Judy Biggert

In a world of increasing interdependence, energy security will depend much on how countries manage their relations with one another. That is why energy…

— Daniel Yergin

“The struggle for power is universal in time and space and is an undeniable fact of experience. It cannot be denied that throughout historic…

— Hans J. Morgenthau

International politics, like all politics, is a struggle for power.

— Anonymous

We must be prepared to see an Association of Nations in conference growing into an organic system of world controls for world affairs and…

— H. G. Wells

Foreign policy is all about a universe of bad decisions, imperfect decisions; every situation is different. The dynamics, the atmospherics, the people, the pressures,…

— Chuck Hagel

In the long march of history, at least two poles of attraction and antagonism have been the norm in world politics. Rarely has only…

— Eskinder Nega