realpolitik

[ UK /ɹˈi‍əlpəlˌɪtɪk/ ]
[ US /ˌɹiɫˌpɔɫɪˈtɪk/ ]
NOUN
  1. politics based on practical rather than moral or ideological considerations
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How To Use realpolitik In A Sentence

  • The promotion of democracy and human rights serves American interests in ways that realpolitik can never accomplish alone.
  • Thank you for your reply to my letter, which confirms your reliance on legalism-moralism rather than realpolitik to determine international policy.
  • The realpolitik executive will be seen as a uniter, will perhaps awe Lieberman into line with the Democrats, and won't provoke much blowback from the Democrats because the target of Lieberman's indiscipline is calling for reconciliation. Discourse.net: Call Your Senator about Lieberman (UPDATED)
  • The answer, shameful but informed by realpolitik, is that no major western power is prepared to intervene. Times, Sunday Times
  • At the same time, realpolitik can bite back, and China is learning some hard lessons about the way the world works, and how a unidimensional approach to OFDI may not be in its own best interests. Daniel Wagner: China Gets a Lesson in Realpolitik
  • The answer, shameful but informed by realpolitik, is that no major western power is prepared to intervene. Times, Sunday Times
  • That's a perfectly reasonable, realpolitik consideration for a government.
  • Besides, as he used to insist while practicing realpolitik in Washington, the cause of peace is also a moral pursuit.
  • The answer, shameful but informed by realpolitik, is that no major western power is prepared to intervene. Times, Sunday Times
  • Once new trade routes were forged to the Americas, Africa and Asia, mercantilism involved statecraft and realpolitik as well as trade and commerce.
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