Word: realpolitiker
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...relations with the Third World by reducing criticism of human rights violations and re-emphasizing the halting of Soviet expansionism, however, allows these nations to avoid addressing the political and economic inequities that development has generated. While such a strategy may make sense within the short term context of realpolitik, it promises to fail in the long term. Tolerance of repression is deplorable on humanitarian grounds, and it fails in practical terms. As the expectations of the populace rise, the costs of suppressing those demands may exceed the cost of meeting them. The United States, associated with repression...
...believe his foreign policy is at least partly predicated on support of human rights. But American reaction to the sentencing to death of prominent dissident Kim Dae Jung--who nearly became head of state in the last democratic elections held in South Korea--indicates that those who believe in realpolitik are prevailing at the expense of those who feel there can be at least a semblance of morality in U.S. foreign policy...
...middle class, who are far from deprivation but find themselves losing ground economically. Their fear is directed at Carter. Overseas, Soviet influence massed and grew and almost everywhere shoved a clumsy and reluctant U.S. against the wall. "We feel," says Raymond Aron, the distinguished French student of Realpolitik, "that American power is in decline. It is that simple and that unfortunate." It is, for instance, one of Kissinger's views that Americans are beginning to reproach themselves and Carter because the U.S. did not take dramatic action to resolve the Iranian hostage crisis when it first occurred. The public wanted...
AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY under Zbigniew Brzezinski is returning to its state under our last realpolitik, government-professor National Security Adviser: a nearsighted, bipolar view of the world which cares less about a nation's welfare or common interests with us than about its value in the life-or-death wrestling match between the two superpowers. In a world that has a third arena no one can ignore, the stupidity of such a view could be fatal. Looking at developing nations merely as pawns in the game against the U.S.S.R., with a blind eye to their internal affairs, is what first...
...nuclear era, revenge may be too hairy a form of redress and self-gratification to be endured. Yet a cautionary super-revenge, in the latent form of a cataclysmic threat, is the governing principle of the nuclear age. Revenge, of course, some times achieves an air of respectability, of Realpolitik, if it is called retaliation or, even more innocently, response-as in "nuclear response." The global balance of power is maintained by a threat of revenge that is designed by its sheer unthinkable horror to forestall the first blow...