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Blogs about: Realpolitik

No World Cup In North Korea? Let's Invade Them

The Futility Monster wrote 1 week ago: I wouldn't mess with him either The news breaks this morning that, apparently, the North Korean … more →

Tags: musings, 1984, cynicism about politics, genocide, George W. Bush, human rights abuses, International Politics, Iraq War, North Korea

Up from the Mines

bschlog wrote 1 week ago: No additional comment required: “After more than 56 years in office, 92-year-old Senator Rober … more →

Tags: ulnar nerve

Withdrawal And Then What?1 comment

modernityblog wrote 3 weeks ago: The politics of a withdrawal from Afghanistan are firmly on the British political agenda, the recent … more →

Tags: UN, Afghanistan, Withdrawal, Slaughter, Civil War, Taliban victory, Isolationism

The Messiah Meets Realpolitik

qb wrote 1 month ago: First, let’s be clear:  this article is a product of the Associated Press wire service, not Fo … more →

Tags: Politics, unilateralism

China's New Rules: No More Nice Hegemon 2 comments

gpmanson3 wrote 1 month ago: By G.P. Manson This week in Cha-am, Thailand, the leaders of the ten ASEAN nations and their counter … more →

Tags: World, East and South Asia, Obama Administration, international security, Great power rivalry, China, Dalai Lama, Beijing, ASEAN

Escalated Afghanistan Occupation 'Buys Some Time'1 comment

Little Alex wrote 1 month ago: David Ignatius at The Washington Post, claims the U.S. has a “responsibility” to use its … more →

Tags: Af-Pak War, afghan surge, Afghanistan, airstrikes, al-Qaeda, Al-Qaida, coin, counterinsurgency, counterterrorism

Atilio Boron on Obama's prize2 comments

machetera wrote 1 month ago: Consolation Prize (Amended)*- Español By Atilio A. Boron English translation: Machetera In an astoni … more →

Tags: The Coming Latin American War, Idiocy, Old World, New World, Things I couldn't make up if I tried, Álvaro Uribe, Cuban Five, blockade of Cuba, Barack Obama

Tough sanctions threatened against Iran

Antoine Clarke wrote 2 months ago: Violet Elizabeth Bott, the UN Secretary General, announced a terrible sanction regime against Iran o … more →

Tags: Actions have consequences, Bureaucracy, Fascism with a smirk, Fun, Islamofascism, military, self-defence, Stupid World

Review of 'Politics of Nature' by Bruno Latour

avoidingthevoid wrote 2 months ago: ‘Political ecology has not begun’, says Bruno Latour, so he is going to start it. … more →

Tags: Bruno Latour, Political ecology, Reviews, Ecology, Economists, Gaia, Latour, moralists, Nature

A. E. Housman on Politics

O. wrote 2 months ago: Probably British poet A.E. Housman (pictured above) did not have politics, per se, in mind when he w … more →

Tags: Notable Quotations, Politics and Poetry, A. E. Housman, craft of the craven, train for ill and not for good

A moment...

bschlog wrote 2 months ago: …of silence. And so passes the first post-Bush 9/11. … more →

Tags: Observed, somber

Realpolitik is preferable to ideologically driven bullshit

Duffster wrote 2 months ago: This from the Telegraph about the “truth” behind the pardoning of the Lockerbie bomber: Jack Straw, … more →

Tags: Politics, Culture, Lockerbie, Jack Straw

Great Power Rivalry Reborn: China and India March into the 21st Century 2 comments

gpmanson3 wrote 2 months ago:             Among analysts and scholars schooled in the tradition of realpolitik, there is a growing … more →

Tags: East and South Asia, international security, Great power rivalry, Nationalism

The Realpolitik of International Affairs

The Futility Monster wrote 3 months ago: What a fine cartoon! I don’t know what it is, but I really can’t get excited over the co … more →

Tags: musings, media, petty politicking, Lockerbie bomber, cynicism about politics, International Politics

Moment of Truth In Afghanistan, Iran, Israel-Palestine, SE Asia, Africa, FSU

stephencrose wrote 3 months ago: http://ow.ly/npFP Afghan War Needs New Strategy: US Commander McChrystal I include many areas where … more →

Tags: Politics, Afghanistan, Religion, Iran, Israel, Nietzsche, Africa, President, War

The Case Of The Dying Bomber: Megrahi and Lockerbie2 comments

rockitboy wrote 3 months ago: There has been a lot of sturm und drang about the Scottish government’s decision to release on … more →

Tags: Politics, History, megrahi

The Sino-Islamic and Global Ramifications of a Manhattan District Attorney

cormackcapital wrote 3 months ago: Before retiring almost at the age of 90 earlier this year, Manhattan DA Morgenthau’s final ind … more →

Tags: Samuel P. Huntington, Sino-Islamic, Sino-US, post-Cold War, NPT, Richard Perle, Leon Panetta, Francis Fukuyama, Bush Doctrine

Realpolitik atinge os Estados Unidos.

cesarbarroso wrote 3 months ago: A realpolitik que os Estados Unidos praticam, principalmente no Oriente Médio, atingiu de uma forma … more →

Tags: Estados Unidos, Mohamed al-Meghari, khaddafi, Lockerbie, Escocia, Reino Unido, Kenny MacAskill, gordon brown, Libia

Obama and Realpolitik

Will wrote 3 months ago: Obama leans on Kissinger's pragmatism Somebody call Henry Kissinger.  Oh, wait; maybe they alrea … more →

Tags: Barack Obama, Elections, International Relations, Politics, Henry Kissinger, hillary clinton


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