Word: realpolitiker
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...What's more, Gadaffi is expected to finalize over $4.5 billion in business agreements above those worth $10 billion signed last summer. Still, Sarkozy insists his invitation goes beyond mere contracts. Instead, his aids say it represents Sarkozy's "realpolitik" of engaging and encouraging rogue regimes in places such as Iran, Syria and Libya to start acting more responsibly in exchange for greater respect within the international community. "If we don't embrace nations who take the road toward respectability, what do we say to those who take that road in the opposite direction?" asked Sarkozy in Lisbon. Other leaders...
History repeats itself not just because of short memories, but because of our instinctual self-centeredness. And since nations are but our own amplified selves, diplomacy, from America to India, triangulates for advantage first and asks questions later. Realpolitik, perfected and made honorable in modern times by the likes of Henry A. Kissinger ’50, is something that diplomats aspire to, not shirk from. There is ample evidence that such diplomacy often comes back to haunt its perpetrators–for example, the consequences of America’s abetment of the mujahideen in Afghanistan in the 1980s...
However, India’s response trumped all realpolitik. On Oct. 1, it merely expressed “concern” over the situation, and the chief of Indian Army, General Deepak Kapoor told reporters, “We have a good relationship going with Myanmar and I am sure we will try and maintain that,” and that what happened in Burma was “an internal matter...
...mealymouthed on issues of national security. That doesn't mean they need to be witlessly hawkish. It doesn't mean they have to join the neoconservative frenzy for war with Iran. It means they have to make the arguments against folly with clarity, toughness and a heavy dose of Realpolitik. It means they will have to convince the public that they will be more effective and realistic overseas than the Republicans have been. No more "Freedom Agendas." No more quagmires. A renewed emphasis on cleaning out al-Qaeda, even if it means special operations against the terrorist camps in Pakistan...
...Kyani once worked with Bhutto as her military secretary and that he was involved in the early stages of negotiating her deal with his boss. Bhutto must know that she cannot return to power without the endorsement of the military, the country's most powerful and enduring institution. Pakistani Realpolitik dictates that she may have to rebound from Musharraf into a relationship with another general...