Word: realpolitikers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unfortunately, acts of voter suppression appear far less evil--less evil than losing an election--to campaign staffers and gadflies. Rather than a fundamental infringement on citizens' rights, these cold power-magnates view their actions as mere manifestations of Realpolitik...
...Business Argument: This can be heard from neo-isolationists across the political spectrum. In essence their argument is that the war in Bosnia is not of direct national concern to the United States. They claim American foreign policy should be solely an extension of American interests. Both moral and realpolitik angles can rebut this argument...
...Gulf War, when Saddam Hussein was prevented from slaughtering the Kurds. Two decades earlier, after secretly encouraging the Kurds to rebel, the U.S. had callously cut them off when they no longer served its interests; in explaining this decision to a closed hearing, Kissinger gave a classic exposition of realpolitik: "Covert action should not be confused with missionary work." Given America's moral streak, such an approach tends to require secrecy. Bush did not have that option: a barrage of pictures of suffering Kurds finally compelled him to step...
Clinton has not been just a yes-man to Republican-style realpolitik, and the few foreign policy changes he has advocated could still spell large consequences: a tougher line toward China, for instance, and more tender treatment of Israel in the Middle East negotiations. Among all foreigners, in fact, the Chinese and Arabs appear to be the most nervous at the prospect of a President Clinton, who has accused Bush of "coddling tyrants from Baghdad to Beijing...
With the collapse of Soviet communism, the possibilities for diplomatic rapprochement might seem to be good, but that is misleading. Even though Moscow and Tokyo talk of settling the dispute in terms of "legitimacy and justice," control of the Kuriles turns more on issues of realpolitik. Says Mikhail Vysokov, director of the Sakhalin Center of Modern History: "Those with power have rights. When Russia had more power, it had more rights. Now Japan has more power...