Word: realpolitiker
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Abroad, Nixon will now concentrate on making his Realpolitik an ongoing reality through SALT II, world trade and money agreements, the slow, patient task of redefining ties with old allies. By visiting China and Russia, Nixon and Kissinger have constructed a triangular world order with Japan and the major European powers also invited to play new roles in his "generation of peace." All this could, of course, be undone if President and Adviser cannot end the war in Southeast Asia. It remains, as it was, incredibly, four long years ago, Nixon's and Kissinger's first and most vital priority...
From Ideology to Realpolitik...
...Nixon-Kissinger objective has therefore been to shift the focus of revolutionary regimes round the world from ideology to issues of national interest. Both men are turning the criteria of decision making from what some Europeans cynically call "the savior attitude" to the equations of Realpolitik, implicitly abandoning the moralistic considerations that have dominated American foreign policy since Woodrow Wilson. "The world is becoming less ideological," says British Political Scientist Frederick Northedge, "and more concerned with survival...
...diplomacy. Following that dictum, Kissinger and Nixon have reassessed U.S. relationships, abandoning some ties as out-of-date (Taiwan), remaking others that might inhibit freedom of action (Japan, Western Europe) and forging new ties with old enemies (Russia and China) to expand the field of play. Another dictum of Realpolitik holds that "interests are constant, alliances...
...there was increasing accommodation to the new realities, but inevitably uneasiness remained. Partly to relieve Western Europe's apprehensions about the new American Realpolitik, the White House has declared 1973 to be "the year of Europe," with the intention of mending long-neglected relations there once the U.S. disentangles itself from Viet Nam. The Administration still must formulate a coherent European policy, especially in the area of economics...