How To Use Realpolitik In A Sentence
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The promotion of democracy and human rights serves American interests in ways that realpolitik can never accomplish alone.
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Thank you for your reply to my letter, which confirms your reliance on legalism-moralism rather than realpolitik to determine international policy.
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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.
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The answer, shameful but informed by realpolitik, is that no major western power is prepared to intervene.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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The answer, shameful but informed by realpolitik, is that no major western power is prepared to intervene.
Times, Sunday Times
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That's a perfectly reasonable, realpolitik consideration for a government.
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Besides, as he used to insist while practicing realpolitik in Washington, the cause of peace is also a moral pursuit.
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The answer, shameful but informed by realpolitik, is that no major western power is prepared to intervene.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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At the turn of the decade many progressives were ready to believe in a new ethical, rather than realpolitik, motivation in foreign policy.
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The Economist has concerns about "the ethics and realpolitik of assassination," yet the lack of any significant international criticism of the operation against OBL's compound flies in the face of any legalistic or moralistic concerns and demonstrates that we are de facto conforming to the principle of verum esse ipsum factum Giambattista Vico, 1668-1744.
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Power politics and realpolitik emphasized by realists is seen as being derived from shared knowledge which is self-fulfilling.
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As they see it, we improperly allow realpolitik considerations to trump the human rights imperatives.
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Ironically, his digital brand of realpolitik may ultimately be the most effective strategy for making the world a more democratic place.
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A smart essay in geopolitics and realpolitik that does not foresee a rosy future for conformists.
The Age of the Unthinkable by Joshua Cooper Ramo: Book summary
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Despite the cloak of principle in the country's polite demurral, the decision was actually based on calculations of realpolitik, both global and domestic.
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For all its underpinnings in realpolitik, the strategy committed the United States to multilateralism.
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Soviet biathlon: No money to repin for new realpolitik.
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The special relationship is in any case more to do with dewy-eyed nostalgia for the days of the cold war than the realpolitik of 21st century Europe.
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Are we to jump to the conclusion, therefore, that they have abandoned the left in the name of pragmatism and realpolitik?
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At times, when he is demonstrating the realpolitik of court life, it seems that he is giving ‘courses of instruction in political amoralism.’
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Or the pragmatism and commercial interests that today we call realpolitik?
Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
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Cooper's mistake was to pose these policies in the old-fashioned language of realpolitik and power, rather than relying on the moral rhetoric of the day.
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We take refuge in foreign policy systems: liberal internationalism or realpolitik, neoconservatism or noninterventionism.
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Unless this strategy takes account of the realpolitik of dealings with the EU, it too runs the risk of telegraphing the Government's intentions in a way that could cost a high price in negotiations, and in the years to come.
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He tended to confuse Realpolitik, realistic politics, with Machtpolitik, which is only power politics.
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KOUCHNER: The word realpolitik is a little pejorative.
‘We Want To Believe’
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After all, those in power on the American side of the Atlantic are also practitioners of realpolitik.
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National realpolitik is becoming unreal, not only in Europe, but throughout the world.
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But the vision called up by realpolitik, or realistic politics, is beyond example crazy and incredible.
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We can hardly take pride in a successful war against Germany motivated less by principle than realpolitik.
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In this world, power politics and classical realpolitik have become obsolete.
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I find her argument to tilt too far in the direction of realpolitik.
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Using Robertson's thinking, for the U.S. to be given a pass by God in its dealing with Haiti, would also suggest the almighty is a proponent of realpolitik.
Byron Williams: Robertson Still Making His Own Deals with the Devil
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The term realpolitik was coined by Prussian Prince Otto von Bismarck, who defined politics as "the art of the possible.
Faces Of The Week: May 8-12, 2006
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They are terrified of Leninist politics, which is nothing more for them than realpolitik practised by Marxist intellectuals.
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In the Iran-Iraq War, short-term realpolitik considerations and factionalism within the administration led the United States to tilt toward Iran, then Iraq, back and forth again and again while secretly arming both sides.
House of Bush, House of Saud
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From the beginning, U.S. policy in South Vietnam was a conflict between realpolitik and democratic ideals.
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While I am sharply critical of American unilateralism and realpolitik masquerading as the defence of liberty, at times I find our own moralizing irritating.
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The problem, of course, is with hypocrisy - realpolitik and dressing it up in moral language.
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That's the ugly reality behind the intellectual justifications of realpolitik.
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Ultimately, the paradox of realpolitik is that realpolitik assumes and is dependent upon the notion that states are rational actors, and yet the practice of realpolitik tends to erode that very principle.
Matthew Yglesias » Carter on Gaza
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The first, we would say, is based on realpolitik, the second on principle.
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If we took the loopiest, most moonbeam-addled Californian utopian internet bullshit, and held it up against the most cynical, realpolitik-inflected scepticism, the Californian bullshit would still be a better predictor of the future.
Clay Shirky: 'Paywall will underperform – the numbers don't add up'
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As grandes potências nada fazem, tolhidas pela falta de interesse em agir no terreno, pelos constrangimentos da realpolitik e pela pouca vontade em provocar o mundo islâmico com mais uma intervenção contra um governo islamista - embora o governo sudanês se tenha distinguido pela crueldade com que trata os seus cidadãos.
Leituras
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Surely realpolitik dictates that this Government must use its final Budget to please the voting classes.
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Vedrine makes clear he is a subtle practitioner of realpolitik in the tradition of Richelieu, Talleyrand, and de Gaulle.
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Look up 'Realpolitik' if the term causes you difficulty.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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But for whatever reason, either archaic moral relativism or in the name of shortsighted Realpolitik, we don't act.
Felix Marquardt: Intolerable Excuses
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What makes this outstanding book so vivid and fresh is not only the story it has to tell - a breathless tale of butchery, realpolitik and endless double-dealing - but also the manner of its telling.
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Stalin, Chamberlain, and Daladier thought they were engaged in realpolitik at the time.
Matthew Yglesias » Russia, China, and Iran
