Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them. And there is a vast difference between the perspective of an analyst and that of a statesman. The analyst can choose which problem he wishes to study, whereas the statesman’s problems are imposed on him.
 Henry Kissinger, Diplomacy (1994). copy citation

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Author Henry Kissinger
Source Diplomacy
Topic perspective difference
Date 1994
Language English
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