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‖ Realpolitik|reˌaːlpoliˈtiːk|
Also realpolitik.
[Ger.]
Practical politics; policy determined by practical, rather than moral or ideological, considerations. Also transf. Cf. practical politics s.v. practical a. (n.) 6.
1914G. B. Shaw in New Statesman 14 Nov. (Suppl.) 5/2 He [sc. Friedrich von Bernhardi] prophesies that we, his great masters in Realpolitik, will do precisely what our Junkers have just made us do. 1915E. B. Holt Freudian Wish & its Place in Ethics iv. 151 This science is ‘Realpolitik’, the Politics of Reality. 1920Times 19 Jan. 13/2 An over-strong Russia..might not altogether suit the Realpolitik of this country. 1926A. Huxley Jesting Pilate iv. 275 Freudism became the realpolitik of psychology and philosophy. 1928C. H. Dodd Authority of Bible xii. 266 In the last days of the monarchies Israel became involved to its cost in the large ‘Realpolitik’ of the time. 1931Times Lit. Suppl. 4 June 433/2 The conflict between these two ideals—Realpolitik and a policy founded upon principles of justice and morality. 1948R. Robinson tr. Jaeger's Aristotle ii. v. 113 The letter that we possess is the solemn record of this peculiar pact between Realpolitik and theoretical schemes of reform. 1952J. D. Mackie Earlier Tudors x. 351 [Thomas Cromwell] had little belief in the omnipotence of the papacy and pinned his faith to Realpolitik. 1958New Statesman 19 Apr. 494/2 But the bare-faced hypocrisy with which they have attempted to conceal their military realpolitik, and which has now been devastatingly exposed, is a serious tactical error. 1961Listener 27 Apr. 731/2 Writing in the eighteen-fifties—the decade which saw the birth of the name and concept of Realpolitik—Mommsen was imbued with the sense of need for a strong man. 1970G. Greer Female Eunuch 109 Even the best educated of them [sc. women] know that arguments with their men-folk are disguised real-politik. 1979N.Y. Rev. Bks. 25 Oct. 49/2 Soviet policy may have sprung neither from revolutionary ideology nor from traditional Realpolitik.
Hence realpoˈlitiker, one who believes in, advocates, or practises Realpolitik.
1930C. Sforza in Time & Tide 4 Apr. 435/2 ‘The United States of Europe!’ sneered..the real-politikers, whom, by a strange legerdemain, the defeat of Hohenzollern Germany has conjured up again in France. 1931Times Lit. Suppl. 22 Jan. 53/1 Both [Cavour and Bismarck] were Realpolitiker, endowed with an extraordinary capacity for gauging the forces with which they had to deal. 1958Times 14 June 8/5 In all this he [sc. Pierre Flandin] took the line of a French Realpolitiker. 1963Observer 1 Dec. 21/4 He learned the lesson, and applied it in Laos—and not in the sentimentally tough way supposed by the realpolitikers. 1976Survey Winter 16 Czechoslovakia may look even more remote than Angola..but its fate counts in the over-all balance, whatever the Realpolitiker may think. |