realpolitik

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Yesterday’s north star of global financial harmony has yielded to today’s realpolitik.

From Barron's • Mar. 4, 2026

Legitimate arguments could be made for rebooting U.S.–Saudi relations, on various realpolitik grounds.

From Slate • Nov. 20, 2025

But their testimony alone can’t expose the devil’s bargain of realpolitik, which seduces the unwary with the notion that making others suffer will benefit us.

From Salon • Nov. 1, 2025

A moment of rejection and a resulting shift to realpolitik that the famed Victorian realist Hardy would have been proud of.

From BBC • Apr. 23, 2025

But beneath the veneer of civility and kultur lurk the cold calculations of realpolitik.

From The Belgian Curtain Europe after Communism by Vaknin, Samuel