The word "statecraft" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the art or science of conducting state affairs. Example sentence: Sarah has a deep understanding of statecraft; she spends her days helping lead her country in the right direction.
But while I can't see new models of statecraft and top down politics doing that, change is coming.
And who would want it, in these circumstances?" "I reflect on how wrong I was to assume that foreign ministers were a lot full of lively interest in the cultures and civilisations of the planet, scholars of statecraft, apostles of diplomacy".
It was the US journalist Byron Price who coined the term "all politics is local" in the 1930s, and the US congressman Tip O'Neill who revived it as a nostrum for modern statecraft.
I read her book Statecraft.
We may find that out in 2015, too.And the winner is…Yet there is more to life and to statecraft than guns and GDP: witness our choice in 2013 of Uruguay, for its liberal stance on drugs and gay marriage.
MIGHT statecraft work where military action has failed to break the Libyan deadlock?
Mr Gates argues that a military relationship is not a reward for good behaviour but an instrument of statecraft that benefits both sides even when there is friction.
That is part of the second category of leaks, concerning American statecraft.
Quoting Kautilya, an ancient authority on statecraft, Mr Mukherjee promised not to "collect unripe fruits".
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.
