Word: realpolitiker
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...grownup world of realpolitik is all about compromise and lesser evil and deals with the devil in pursuit of limited objectives; it's simply na?ve to imagine that principle tops expedience in the pursuit of national security objectives . Still, it's worth asking - as the Israelis have done over Hamas - whether it was possible, in the 1980s, to visualize the long-term consequences of the "Arab Afghan" program. If we focus only on an immediate objective and our sense of history is measured in months, we may, unfortunately, be doomed, sooner or later, to repeat...
...Abadgaran's foreign policy maxim is, "Honor, Wisdom, Prudence," which may remain far from an interest-driven realpolitik. "Relations with the U.S. are not as important as our prayers, nor as sinful as alcohol," says coalition leader Tavakoli. "For more than half a century, the American government has been oppressing us, so, unless they change their attitude, there's no basis for rapprochement...
...blame. Before winning office, he spent just four years as a lawmaker and less than a year as Fisheries Minister. Critics say he's been further hampered by surrounding himself with like-minded political neophytes, most of them young men in their 30s or 40s with little sense of realpolitik. Many of them are former left-leaning activists and lawyers, and some are longtime Roh acolytes who see the world much as he sees it?sharing what has come to be referred to as the same "code." An official of the MDP says, "If you know the code...
...Talking to evildoers is the essence of realpolitik, and realpolitik seems in bad odor these days. Last week George W. Bush announced himself as the most exuberantly idealistic foreign policy President since Woodrow Wilson. Bush's vision of a sudden flowering of post-Saddam Middle Eastern democracy has no historical precedent. If issued from the mouth of, say, Ted Kennedy, it would have been denounced by conservatives as fantasy. Is Fatal Hug diplomacy any more improbable than what the President has already proposed...
...committee’s final report. Kissinger is a man who operates under the principle that the ends justify the means. Although he achieved what other diplomats could not in opening China in 1972 and negotiating the end to both the Yom Kippur and Vietnam wars, his devotion to realpolitik in the 1960s and ’70s was unparalleled and remains significant today. After all, more than a diplomat, Kissinger is an idea, evoking images of old-fashioned espionage and its effectiveness. He has previously shown great willingness to implement practices that other diplomats shy away from...