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

In an email, Norman Ornstein, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a prominent pro-democracy voice, offered a dose of realpolitik.

From Salon • Aug. 14, 2025

He invited controversy, however, not by advocating a more amoral, realpolitik foreign policy but by delivering a finger-wagging, highly moralistic lecture about, among other things, how our allies are insufficiently liberal about free expression.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2025

It is a fine balancing act between the virtuous ideals of democracy and the harsh constraints of realpolitik.

From Terrorists and Freedom Fighters by Vaknin, Samuel