Realpolitik

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• Blair’s failure at EU illustrates its real nature

  
  Liberal Conspiracy — Authority: 700
  So, it’s looking like it’s lightweight, little-known Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy for the President of the European Council, and lightweight, little-known Baroness Ashton (current UK European Commissioner, Peter Mandelson’s almost invisible replacement) for the High Representative of the Union ...
  2 days ago

• Brzezinski & Obama’s bipolar disorder

  
  The Acorn — Authority: 507
  The world doesn’t become bipolar by wishing that it is Zbigniew Brzezinski, like many others who came of age during the Cold War, believes that a bipolar world is much easier for the United States to ‘manage’ than a multipolar one. That might even be correct. The problem is—the world is not bipolar—even ...
  3 days ago

• Something For The State Department To Take Note Of

  
  The New Ledger Chequer-Board — Authority: 146
  I recognize that the Sino-American relationship is affected by a whole host of complicating factors. Realpolitik plays a tremendously important role in influencing the nature of the relationship, and as a consequence, the issue of human rights will be but one factor affecting the relationship. But there is no reason ...
  1 week ago

• Did the fall of the Berlin Wall kill ideology?

  
  Liberal Conspiracy — Authority: 700
  Most of the comment on the fall of the Berlin Wall has come from people who experienced life in the eras both before and after it came down, and for obvious reasons. So here’s something different: a reflection from somebody who doesn’t remember the wall, because they were 3 years old in 1989. My generation lives, ...
  1 week ago

• Atlantic Bridge: Is this really a non-partisan charity?

  
  Liberal Conspiracy — Authority: 700
  contribution by Stephen Newton As already reported on Liberal Conspiracy , Tuesday night is destined to see Dr Henry Kissinger deliver the Margaret Thatcher Lecture to the Atlantic Bridge and to collect the oxymoronic Margaret Thatcher Medal of Freedom , which the charity claims was endowed to it by Baroness ...
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• A war-criminal comes to London

  
  Liberal Conspiracy — Authority: 700
  contribution by Ben Six So, on Tuesday, Liam Fox, the man who’s likely to be our next Defence Secretary, will step onto a platform somewhere in London and celebrate one of the 20th Century’s most notorious war criminals : Henry Kissinger, a man whose bloody footprints trail through Laos, Vietnam, ...
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• “Reset” in US-Russia Human Rights Issues

  
  FINROSFORUM — Authority: 126
  US President Barack Obama’s chief advisor on Russia, Michael McFaul, has declared a “reset” on human rights issues in US-Russian relations. Oleg Kozlovsky comments McFaul’s talks with Vladislav Surkov, the architect of Russia’s “managed democracy”:Michael McFaul is known for his sober and clear ...
  2 weeks ago

• Why EU President Blair isn’t a bad idea

  
  Liberal Conspiracy — Authority: 700
  The Tories have finally found an issue to unite them with the mainstream European right: their shared loathing of Tony Blair. Angela Merkel was never keen on the idea of President Blair; now Nicolas Sarkozy , who first mooted it, has decided that he, too, would rather have someone whose guts his voters don’t ...
  2 weeks ago

• Withdrawal And Then What?

  
  ModernityBlog — Authority: 474
  The politics of a withdrawal from Afghanistan are firmly on the British political agenda, the recent comments by Gordon Brown’s office indicates that, even Nick Clegg is hedging his bets.Combined with the removal of the United Nation’s western officials, the situation in Afghanistan is looking bleak, despite the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Is this the only solution to Afghanistan?

  
  Liberal Conspiracy — Authority: 700
  There’s a distinct air of unreality which must around hang around newspaper offices and also the realms of Whitehall. The reaction to the killing of 5 British soldiers by an Afghan police officer was one of a still aloof nation that regards it as unbelievable that it can be so apparently easy to kill Our Boys, ...
  2 weeks ago

• This fracture is of David Cameron’s making

  
  Liberal Conspiracy — Authority: 700
  So whatever happened to the Conservative Party’s willingness to debate and tolerate differences of opinion? At first sign of trouble it vanishes. The fall-out from the signing of the Lisbon Treaty has Tim Montgomerie planning to “take a vow of silence on Europe” and Iain Dale brands dissenters as ...
  2 weeks ago

• Conservative Party in deep trouble over Europe

  
  Liberal Conspiracy — Authority: 700
  This morning Poland’s Chief Rabbi, Michael Schudrich, appeared on the Today programme in an effort to salvage the reputation of Michal Kaminski – the leader of their European grouping. Predictably, this is being spun as final proof their man is innocent, and trying to shut down the difficult questions about his ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Kaminski questions Cameron didn’t answer

  
  Liberal Conspiracy — Authority: 700
  David Cameron yesterday said of the man the Conservatives have chosen to lead their new European grouping , Michal Kaminski: “I see this as a totally politically-driven campaign and particular nonsense. “In terms of Michal Kaminski, who I have met, he is not a homophobe, he’s not a racist, he’s not an ...
  3 weeks ago

• Over-compensating by turning pro-Israeli

  
  Liberal Conspiracy — Authority: 700
  My old psychology dictionary of terms informs me that overcompensation can be ‘a Freudian defence mechanism , whereby an individual attempts to offset weakness in an area of their lives by focusing on another aspect of it. I thought back to those English Defence League marches, where 2 things are promised every ...
  3 weeks ago

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