realpolitik
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Solmssen’s novel, a roundtable meant to promote postwar rebuilding gets co-opted by realpolitik.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Most presidential administrations have claimed to operate according to a foreign policy doctrine of some kind: for instance, neoconservatism, liberal internationalism, isolationism, or realpolitik.
From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2026
He’s living up to a realpolitik maxim attributed to various Latin American caudillos: For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2026
Yesterday’s north star of global financial harmony has yielded to today’s realpolitik.
From Barron's ● Mar. 4, 2026
This, of course, does not tend to enhance the realpolitik instincts of the nation.
From After the Rain : how the West lost the East by Samuel Vaknin
Vocabulary lists containing realpolitik
John McCain (1936 - 2018) Tribute List
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Chapters 24–25
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