Would a China that models its diplomacy on that of Otto von Bismarck qualify as a ‘responsible stakeholder’ in the globalized, US-led international order? Not unless it takes Bismarck’s ...

Early in 2011 I wrote a Diplomat feature asking whether China had patterned its diplomacy on that of Otto von Bismarck, Germany's Iron Chancellor. The verdict is in, and the answer is no. Bismarck ...

On April 1, 1924, Adolf Hitler was sent to prison for five years after failing to take over Germany by force in the unsuccessful "Beer Hall Putsch." ...

"THERE IS a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America." That observation by the 19th-century German prime minister Otto von Bismarck has always seemed ...

A statue of 19th-century statesman Otto von Bismarck stands in Berlin. He believed that only war against an external enemy could unify 39 disparate states into modern Germany. (Photo by Sean ...