More the point, once China becomes the world's largest economy (in the next decade) and perfects its diplomatic statecraft (over the course of the current decade), it can no longer be seen as a 'developing' country.
At its core, Statecrafting on the Fringes helps us understand the inner workings of a much-celebrated welfare nation-state, what its implications are in an era of globalization and migration, and how we could think about it differently.
Confidentiality has its place in statecraft, and if Afghanistan's war is to be resolved it will require some quiet dealmaking, but there is something unsavory about secret talks as a mechanism for drawing the Taliban into politics.
In addition to the Marshall Plan's effectiveness in normalizing Western economies, historians now see it as an example of shrewd statecraft in its approach to both the Soviet Union and Germany.
Qatar's aggressive effort to bolster the embattled Syrian opposition is the latest brash move by a country that has been using its wealth to elbow its way to the forefront of Middle Eastern statecraft, confounding both its allies in the region and in the West.
Its sorties are half statecraft, half pure sport.
Israel has used assassination as a tool of statecraft since its creation in 1948, historians say, killing dozens of Palestinian and other militants and a small number of foreign scientists, military officials or people accused of being Holocaust collaborators.
Accounting for two-fifths of ASEAN's population and one-third of its GDP, it dwarfs the other nine members.Under the 32-year dictatorship of Suharto, which ended ten years ago this week, Indonesia, in keeping with the traditions of Javanese statecraft, used its clout discreetly.
As yet the economic costs have been bearable, but the risks are high.James Reilly of the University of Sydney thinks that China's new posturing is a revival of an old practice known as economic statecraft, meaning it is deploying its wealth for strategic foreign-policy purposes.
Augustus' luck was hardly inferior to his statecraft.
