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realpolitikPolitics based on practical objectives rather than on ideals. The word does not mean “real” in the English sense but rather connotes “things”—hence a politics of adaptation to things as they are. Realpolitik thus suggests a pragmatic, no-nonsense view and a disregard for ethical considerations. In diplomacy it is often associated with relentless, though realistic, pursuit of the national interest. |
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His intellectual heroes are George Kennan, the statesman who coined the policy of containment, and Reinhold Niebuhr, the theologian who reconciled moral principles with the hard-headed interests of real-politik. Believers in real-politik tend to ignore or discount human rights and international law as significant forces in international affairs--and even see them as an "illegitimate" challenge to nation-state sovereignty, a favorite line of the neocons. The section on "European and Mediterranean Crossroads" begins by proposing (not entirely tongue-in-cheek) that The Tempest might be productively grouped with Shakespeare's history plays, particularly as a dramatization of Machiavellian real-politik. |
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Real-politik