Word: realpolitiker
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...current Iranian regime, which America shuns, so much worse than the Shah's Iran, a regime with which America did business? International 'Realpolitik,' as Danilewitz should know, is about advancing one's domestic and foreign goals while also being seen to respond to a number of different constituencies...
...Whether a touching display of unity or a recognition of realpolitik, Butler's action puts the crisis on a new plane. The U.N., as well as the U.S., has been snubbed. Will Clinton now launch a long-awaited air strike? Not just yet, says TIME State Department correspondent Dean Fischer. ?In the short term, the administration is going to continue going the diplomatic route. They?re not likely to mount an attack on Iraq at this stage...
...Mandela's impending rise to the South African premiership seemed inevitable, some suggested that his ascension to high political office would force him to tone down his rhetoric as he became better acquainted with the subtleties of realpolitik. According to this view, Mandela's revolutionary comments were borne out of his need to appeal to constituents who would have been disappointed not to hear any mots de guerre from the defiant leader that legend and 27 years had immortalized...
...troubling situation of a possibly hostile and emerging superpower. We cannot hope to dictate the conditions of American engagement but we can hope to provide a forum for the moral voice of America, an insistence that the indecencies of the Chinese communist regime not be drowned out by the realpolitik of day to day political negotiation. For if we have learned anything from the last 60 years of the 20th century, it is that a corrupt and repressive government, if ignored or appeased, will only grow in strength...
...outside the home can make your mate suddenly more endearing?) And the moral indignation hurled at a spouse--over his or her coldness, rudeness, sloppiness, whatever--may feel high-minded but is often crassly self-serving. The emotional world of the family, Bowen believed, can be a jungle of realpolitik and a source of endless turbulence...