OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 28941

realpolitik

/ɹeɪˈɑːlpɒlɪˌtiːk/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
realpolitik
Pragmatic, often expansionist, diplomacy and politics focused on perceived national interests of the state to the near exclusion of ethical, moral, and theoretical objectives.
It is Realpolitik in sport, and a Realpolitik which is not wholly unknown in England; but while the spirit of Realpolitik is still perceivable in German sport, it is equally percei…
Possibly the Germans themselves regard their Realpolitik as but the continuation of the philosophic tradition of disillusionment: like Xenophanes they would remind us that the gods…
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