Word: realpolitiker
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...Carter addressed the same audience and put the country on notice that if elected he would not let his Administration be guided by "balance of power politics," by excessive reliance on "military supremacy," or by "policies that strengthen dictators." He was committing himself to a dramatic departure from traditional Realpolitik. He stuck to that commitment until the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan converted him to a belief in old-fashioned containment...
...idealistic Clark, who promised greater independence to the provinces in the last election, has been force-fed lessons in realpolitik...
...liner of long standing. But Brzezinski too wanted the Carter Administration to distinguish itself from its predecessors by being "less hung up," as he once put it, on the Soviet challenge. He sought a "differentiated" foreign policy freed from the we/they, East/West bipolarity that underlay Henry Kissinger's Realpolitik no less than Dean Acheson's containment and John Foster Dulles' brinkmanship...
...meet a situation in Afghanistan it could no longer effectively control. The Russians apparently decided to make their show of force in the shadow of the Iranian problem, much as they had intervened in Hungary in 1956 while the West was preoccupied with the Suez crisis. Moscow made a Realpolitik decision: Amin would have...
...ambitions of new leaders sometimes sink into Realpolitik. To the environmentalists' delight, Dick Lamm, Colorado's newly elected Governor, proclaimed in 1975: "I am going to drive a silver stake through the heart of Interstate 470"?a road that was to be the final link of a circumferential highway around Denver...