Sentences with phrase «interest of the realists»

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Johnson notes that realist political theory (with its focus on rationally conceived interests) and the rational and cosmopolitan ethic of the Enlightenment do not take such matters into account.

The realists, on the other hand, believe that the United States should intervene elsewhere in the world only when vital interests of our nation are involved.

Still, in an abundance of prudence, the administration's wise new realist thrust determined that it was in our nation's interest not to meddle in Iranian affairs and to continue the dialogue with the current authorities, even as it was clear that our national interest dictated that we work with President Chavez to help bring the deposed Mr. Zelaya back to power in Honduras.

These do not depend upon the highest ethical commitments of which men are capable, but upon that mixture of human sympathy, rationality and self - interest which constitutes the basic pattern of human motivation While Niebuhr is a realist about the possibilities of human justice he has a strong concern for the social reformism in politics which characterizes modern democracy and the Christian social Gospel.

It flattered those who could understand the long passages in Latin, or who noticed the glittery filaments of intertextuality woven into its design, or who understood the late - medieval tension between realist and nominalist metaphysics; but it also entertained those who were simply interested in a colorful murder mystery with an unusual setting and who did not mind skipping the Latin bits altogether.

During the Cold War, the «realist position» accepted the Soviet Union as a permanent feature of the world scene and sought a long - term accommodation with its interests — while Ronald Reagan was regarded as a reckless visionary for his dangerously «unrealistic belief» that the Soviets could be defeated.

Niebuhr and the political realists did share some common convictions: the need for an adequate anthropology, understanding of human existence, which they saw as fundamentally self - centered and self - seeking; this being the case, the measure of an effective foreign policy was the responsible pursuit of the national interest.

Just curious, as I try hard to be objective / a realist regardless of any rooting interest.

A realist vision of human actions should thus incite progressive politics to reconstruct the notion of interests.

While realism should do more to engage with the impact of «soft power» and historical patterns on calculations of interest, power, and threat, there is no reason why these factors are necessarily excluded from realist thinking.

However, many realists, including Morgenthau, did not understand interests and power exclusively in a strictly material sense but also as expressed through a diverse array of policies.

The works of classical realists like Morgenthau sidelined much of the ideological component of political regimes, depicting inter-state affairs as obliging to a higher morality of state interests and survivability, which essentially meant minimizing risks and maximizing benefits.

I know of no realist work interested in post hoc political justifications for foreign policy actions.

5) Motyl finally claims that realist arguments against arming Ukraine fail because the obsessive pursuit of Russia's interests in Ukraine is «irrational» (his characterization of Russia escalating the war).

This paradigmatic liaison between constructivism / post-rationalism and strategic studies refined the understanding on state conduct by providing a more culturally - informed explanation of how strategic policies are constructed and why states opt for certain policies even when such strategic options would not necessarily correspond to «realist» interests of maximizing power.

A party for those whose priorities include the Welfare State, workers» rights, trade unionism, the co-operative movement, consumer protection, strong communities, conservation rather than environmentalism, fair taxation, full employment, public ownership, proper local government, a powerful Parliament, the monarchy, the organic Constitution, national sovereignty, civil liberties, the Union, the Commonwealth, the countryside, grammar schools, traditional moral and social values, economic patriotism, balanced migration, a realist foreign policy, and a base of real property for every household to resist both over-mighty commercial interests and an over-mighty State.

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In Phoenix, Christian Petzold sets his nuanced melodrama of postwar German - Jewish identity within a starkly realist aesthetic, making newly fascinating use of his enduring interest in the tensions between the real and the artificial.

as his social - realist picture, but those early scenes alone indicate a greater interest in the way representations of reality can facilitate his genre - bending predilections.

Stein works between the lines of abstract and realist, he creates recognisable faces, but is not interested in a photo realistic portrait.

With the realist setting of each painting, the surreal characters make an interesting contrast and offer an amusing insight into a world where mythical creatures are accepted as the norm.

The artists — Htein Lin, Aung Khaing, Chan Aye, Phyu Mon, Zun Ei Phyu, Thynn Lei Nwe, Myint San Myint, and Khin Thethtar Latt (Nora)-- represent multiple generations of artists who share a common interest in working on subject matter and formats outside the realist schools of art favored by the previous military governments.

Think about the 19th - century realist paintings of people like John Everett Millais or Gustav Courbet — it's interesting to read that at the time people complained, «Why are you painting peasants?

The first issue, Pierre's, interweaves Pierre's Huyghe's recent work and research interests, covering topics as varied as genetic engineering, new realist philosophy and the science fiction of Philip K. Dick.

While she looks at society with the observant eye of a social realist, Dickson is also interested in experimenting with different media, textures, and techniques.

It's not in Tate's interests to garland a standout candidate in a traditional medium — remember last year's defeat of realist painter George Shaw by installationist Martin Boyce?

It would be interesting, in fact, to compare Garcia - Roig's paintings with the similarly realist yet abstracted woodlands found in the photographs of Kathryn Kolb, who is also represented by Thomas Deans.

As editor for the overseas edition of Collection Magazine, Hongbin Zhang collaborates with world famous art institutions, and in China there is a strong interest in realist art.

In the 1930s, he began his career as a social realist painter because of his strong interest in conveying the human experience.

I am interested in putting these artists together to try and revisit the excitement and possibilities of the time and remind viewers that it wasn't as polarized an artworld as history books like to portray; the realists and the abstract artists showed together in the 1950s and often exchanged ideas.»

An experienced, neutral realist would reword this to --[The primary benefit of this system is its ability to institutionalize dissent, thereby ensuring that any dissenting set of interests is dominated by the Establishment through regulation.]

In his book 2008 book Red Hot Lies, author and climate realist Chris Horner noted that DeSmogBlog's financial backer, John Lefebvre, is «currently a guest of the federal government's correctional officers as a consequence of certain business transactions, a fact that certainly would be of great interest had he instead cast his lot with the climate optimists.»

Actually, I've argued with «realists» that assuming that Judith's science is biased by her commercial interests is unscientific, fallacious, and an example of motivated reasoning (and the kind of bad arguments I've criticized from «skeptics»).

In this article, I present a neoclassical realist theory of climate change politics that challenges the idea that cooperation on climate change is compelled alone by shared norms and interests emanating from the international level and questions if instead [continue reading...]

It is interesting how «skeptics,» some of whom so often complain that part of the problem is that «realist» climate scientists won't engage in debates with «skeptics,» suddenly support Judith's failure (thus far) to engage in detailed debate with Gavin on this topic.