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“For the first time we can perceive something of the real proportion of features and events on the stage of the whole world, and may seek a formula which shall express certain aspects, at any rate, of geographical causation in universal history.”
― Halford John Mackinder

“Multi-lateralism's dilemma: that the inclusion of more actors increases the legitimacy of a process or organization at the same time as it decreases its efficiency and utility.”
― Richard N. Haass, Foreign Policy Begins at Home: The Case for Putting America's House in Order

“As Napoleon said, to know a nation's geography is to know its foreign policy”
― Robert D. Kaplan, The Revenge Of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate

“Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.”
― Klemens von Metternich