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This can be read as realpolitik, but it would also have been a good investment strategy this year.

Some commentators are carrying on as if western pragmatism and realpolitik were responsible for keeping Muammer Gaddafi in power.

This just meant that no one in his government was happy when the president decided to apply classic French realpolitik in the case of Libya.

Europe's leaders are now trying to disown their years of realpolitik, and instead make the cry of the Arab street their own.

The blatancy of that conflict of interest ought to prick the conscience of even the most hard-boiled believer in realpolitik.

Besides, as he used to insist while practicing realpolitik in Washington, the cause of peace is also a moral pursuit.

And if realpolitik dictates, India is perfectly capable of cosying up to a dictatorship, such as the Burmese military junta.

Perhaps, however, Mr MacAskill's moralising is merely rhetorical chaff, thrown up to disguise the realpolitik that lay behind the release.

Mr Paulson, who did after all insert a clause in the bail-out plan allowing himself to switch course, may have been ruled by realpolitik .

An 'Arctic carve up', where the only lingo is Realpolitik: "protecting our Arctic interests" etc.

The Chinese government is pretty keen to keep the war in the front of public memory for very realpolitik reasons.

As with the Putin episode, Bush is shown to rely heavily on personal chemistry and the power of faith rather than reason and realpolitik.

Normative power EU is a reflection of its strategy aim to the pursuit of self interest and construction of realpolitik.

Realpolitik: A usually expansionist national policy having as its sole principle advancement of the national interest.

Now the DPJ is in power, it will have to forget such foolishness and drink from the fountain of realpolitik.

It was partially structured upon the Western Zhou system of feudalism, but elements of realpolitik were emerging.

The idealistic Mr Obama has brought a different lexicon to foreign policy: realpolitik is in, talk of common values is out.

in any case realpolitik points towards some political engagement with russia , however distasteful its government may be.

Ironically, his digital brand of realpolitik may ultimately be the most effective strategy for making the world a more democratic place.

Keep a foothold finally bringing forward the concrete measure boosting a think bank developing in Realpolitik, the social environment.

Realpolitik and liberal internationalism, in other words, both pull in the same direction.

Now, there is a glimmer of truth to this kind of realpolitik argument.

Nation states live in a rougher world of realpolitik.

On the other hand, if the West always puts narrow realpolitik before its values, then its values will be tainted in the eyes of the world.

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