realpolitik in English

noun
1
a system of politics or principles based on practical rather than moral or ideological considerations.
Power politics and realpolitik emphasized by realists is seen as being derived from shared knowledge which is self-fulfilling.

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1. Well, there's some realpolitik for you.

2. Diplomacy and realpolitik continue to fascinate him.

3. In Britain, commercial realpolitik had won the day.

4. Here practicality—some would say realpolitik—comes into play, sometimes frustratingly.

5. In the world of trade and realpolitik, it counts for nothing.

6. Europe has become arena of realpolitik, the politics of reality.

7. Was there, in truth, any other option but the realpolitik of Wapping?

8. Both in terms of principle and realpolitik, the Lehman decision was sound.

9. And dissimulation was of course essential for the practice of realpolitik.

10. The trouble arises when one pursues moral diplomacy and realpolitik with the same country.

11. In good old realpolitik tradition, the chairman controls the staff and the budget.

12. The role produces masters of realpolitik, Machiavellian in the original sense of the word.

13. Balancing power means keeping the peace and careful Realpolitik practitioners try to avoid arms races.

14. What the idealism of the non-aligned movement could not bring about may finally happen through realpolitik.

15. This answer is great, but I think "Bismarckian diplomacy" also references "Realpolitik" in general

16. The term Realpolitik is sometimes used pejoratively to imply politics that are perceived as coercive, amoral, or Machiavellian.

17. In basic terms, this was an object lesson in the adroit use of sanction and symbol in lowlevel realpolitik.

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

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

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

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

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

23. That passage is often taken to be, the beginning of chapter the essence of Machiavelli and realism, a kind of Realpolitik, as it were.

24. When it comes to talking about Chinese leaders he has met, Mr. Kissinger, the hardheaded apostle of realpolitik, can sound almost starry-eyed.

25. The defeats of the working class prepared through the turn to guerrillaism, combined with Castroism's Realpolitik in Latin America, served to hold back the social revolution on the continent and

26. Europe's leaders are now trying to disown their years of realpolitik, and instead make the cry of the Arab street their own. The contortions are more theatrical the closer they live to north Africa.