Word: realpolitiker
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...issue. "He's the biggest soccer fan in the U.S., and helped bring the World Cup here in 1994." A call was placed, and the result is an enthusiastic and knowing appreciation of the great Brazilian superstar, as well as a cogent comparison of soccer and American sports, a realpolitik, so to speak, of two quite different regimes...
...intelligence has been very reluctant to give any assistance to the Hague tribunal," says Anastasijevic. But it may be politically impossible for a White House that has compared Milosevic with Hitler to withstand pressure to indict Milosevic. Yet in the absence of a massive escalation of the war, realpolitik may dictate that Milosevic's crimes are left as unfinished business of the Kosovo campaign: "He may be formally indicted but not actually arrested," says Anastasijevic. "Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was indicted as a war criminal, but NATO hasn't made a serious attempt to go after him." In Hollywood...
...question now is not whether NATO should have taken an interest in the Balkans in the first place, or whether idealism is superior to realpolitik; the question is how to avoid the genocide of the Kosovar Albanians, and whether NATO is willing to take the necessary steps to that...
...NATO action, while partly humanitarian in mission, will eventually have its darker, realpolitik side revealed. As America plays a balancing act between courting European support for a U.S.-dominated 21st century and calming Russian fears of encirclement, America's actions this week will appear to some as another move by an administration characterized by sudden action...
...been said, are civil wars. The boundaries of nations ever in flux, "are nothing to the bond of common humanity. The war in Kosovo will not depend on the guiding hand of NATO advisers, nor on the technological might its militaries have in store, nor even upon the realpolitik or game theoretic calculations of foreign policy advisors. It will be fought and decided, as war has always been fought and decided: town by town, hill by hill and house by house...