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Realpolitik

noun

Politics based on practical rather than moral or ideological considerations. Synonym: practical politics.

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... instance which has yet arisen of a daughter-nation outnumbering its mother-country, but still more because it seemed to prove that not even the grant of extensive powers of self-government would secure the permanent loyalty of colonies. Indeed, from the standpoint of Realpolitik, it might be argued that in the case of America self-government was shown to be a dangerous gift; for the American colonies, which alone among European settlements had obtained this supreme endowment, were the first, and indeed the only, European settlements to ...

— The Expansion of Europe - The Culmination of Modern History • Ramsay Muir

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Words linked to "Realpolitik" : practical politics, political science, government, politics