statecraft

[ steyt-kraft, -krahft ]

noun

1. the art of government and diplomacy.

statecraft

/ ˈsteɪtˌkrɑːft /

noun

1. the art of conducting public affairs; statesmanship

Word History and Origins

Origin of statecraft¹

First recorded in 1635–45; state + craft

Example Sentences

This becomes a fact between us—a rogue piece of information—that we start to guard with excellent statecraft.

From Washington Blade

Maybe it's a sense that kind of history ended in the 1990s, with the fall of the Soviet Union, and that those kind of old-fashioned tools of statecraft and competition had disappeared.

From Washington Post

This is because espionage has become an integral part of American statecraft.

From The Daily Beast

It is this message alone more than any geopolitical impulse or statecraft that has the Russian government scrambling.

From The Daily Beast

"Deadlines are a two-way street," Dennis Ross wrote in his 2007 book, Statecraft.

From The Daily Beast

Know and select the right instruments of statecraft and orchestrate them to maximum effect.

From The Daily Beast

But every user of a radical ideology as a tool of statecraft fears being out-radicalized.

From The Daily Beast

To those who have exhausted statecraft, nothing remains but the realm of pure thought.

From Project Gutenberg

My ideas about statecraft have passed through three main phases to the final convictions that remain.

From Project Gutenberg

It has been the chronic mistake of statecraft and all organising spirits to attempt immediately to scheme and arrange and achieve.

From Project Gutenberg

In no man have I perceived so sympathetically the great contrast between warm, personal things and the white dream of statecraft.

From Project Gutenberg

The shadow of the village pump has departed from his statecraft, and his political horizon girdles the earth.

From Project Gutenberg

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