| That's the ugly reality behind the intellectual justifications of realpolitik. |
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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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| But the vision called up by realpolitik, or realistic politics, is beyond example crazy and incredible. |
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| National realpolitik is becoming unreal, not only in Europe, but throughout the world. |
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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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| In this world, power politics and classical realpolitik have become obsolete. |
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| As they see it, we improperly allow realpolitik considerations to trump the human rights imperatives. |
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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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| They are terrified of Leninist politics, which is nothing more for them than realpolitik practised by Marxist intellectuals. |
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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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| 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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| 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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| We can hardly take pride in a successful war against Germany motivated less by principle than realpolitik. |
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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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| For all its underpinnings in realpolitik, the strategy committed the United States to multilateralism. |
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| Surely realpolitik dictates that this Government must use its final Budget to please the voting classes. |
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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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| 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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| The first, we would say, is based on realpolitik, the second on principle. |
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| That's a perfectly reasonable, realpolitik consideration for a government. |
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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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| 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 are not trying to play the high-handed human rights idealists who are against realpolitik and interests. |
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| Throughout 2012 most of the polling appeared to support this brutal bit of realpolitik reasoning. |
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| Even by the standards of realpolitik, under which the west only acts on the basis of its own security concerns, this is a lose-lose situation. |
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| The attorney general found himself victim of a piece of the most ruthless realpolitik. |
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| Theoretically, at least, geopolitical considerations should play no part, but in fact realpolitik usually prevails in practice. |
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| Had we made this realpolitik decision five years ago, it would have been over. |
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| Mr. William Rendell: I would say that the key thing here is to recognize where the realpolitik is. |
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| I know this is not going to happen, thanks to the realpolitik of international politics. |
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| The rhetoric has been harsh, but given the realpolitik of east african foreign policy, the actions have been decidedly mixed. |
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| I find her argument to tilt too far in the direction of realpolitik. |
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| If there is a theme that runs through Hagel's syllabus choices, it's a pretty realpolitik one. |
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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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| Is it the realpolitik that in this era of uncertainty works to build alliances with friends rather than burning them on every end? |
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| Once in power ideological purity does have to make some room for realpolitik, but realpolitik is not moderation. |
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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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| And these odds were often set by realpolitik, rather than a moral compass. |
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| The intrastate realpolitik would end up devouring the philosophers themselves. |
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| Hate it or love it, the United Nations is widely associated with idealism in international relations, not state-centered Hobbesian realpolitik. |
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| Needless to say, Merkel has defined her decennial legacy as chancellor through moral finesse, calculated practicality and realpolitik. |
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| Brazil used to be the guardians of the beautiful game, Germany the ruthless, clinical champions of football realpolitik. |
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| Anyone who does not acknowledge this basic principle might make a good church leader but not a practitioner of realpolitik. |
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| Europe's history should serve as constant warning against the logic of spheres of influence, or anything resembling the sacrifice of the interests of smaller nations in the name of big power realpolitik. |
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| Unfortunately we are wasting an opportunity to make more material improvements to the directive and, with this revised realpolitik, we are accepting much less than what the workers need. |
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| In truth, however, it is only taking place because of the bid, and this weekend's events provide an object lesson in the realpolitik in which the FA will have to engage if its bid is to have any chance of success. |
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| The realpolitik of some western countries that simply don't care much about democracy and human rights as a first priority when it comes to economic and political interests are definitely a major obstacle. |
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| The Lebanese feel their cause will be sacrificed on the altar of realpolitik, and their nation's destiny will be confiscated as a prerequisite for peace between stronger regional powers. |
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| How do we approach our Minister of Foreign Affairs and say we agree with the points you've brought forward, but how in realpolitik can we move forward? |
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| Allow me in this minute to draw your attention to the hypocrisy which Europe and the US display in matters such as these in order to pursue realpolitik. |
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| For sure, there have been systematic violations of human rights and crimes against humanity, even if you kill one person, but I don't know even the realpolitik at this point. |
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| In realpolitik, such steps are necessary for one's survival, as emotions are of no value when it comes to geostrategic interests. |
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| I very much hope that the Commissioner abandons any attempt at realpolitik, involving dirty compromises in the Council, and sticks to what is Parliament's clear desire. |
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| The key, in this final stretch of talks, is for all parties to leave the comfort zone of usual realpolitik bargaining and overcome divisions inherited form the past, he added. |
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