Rejecting the Realism Vs. Idealism Foreign Policy Debate By David M. Anderson Posted December 22, 2009 at 11:43am ...

This is the philosophy of realism. Politics is the acquisition and use of power to allocate scarce resources. If you acquire it, you must use it for your best interests. And you must keep it for ...

The Song Before It Is Sung By Justin Cartwright Bloomsbury, 288 pages, $24.95 At 62, Justin Cartwright is a senior member of a masterful generation of English novelists that includes Martin Amis, I… ...

The death of Richard Nixon has brought renewed argument over the oldest disagreement in the American foreign policy debate, that of “realism” versus international idealism. Nixon is celebrated ...

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Barack Obama won the presidency Tuesday by persuading voters to embrace a seeming paradox: leadership based on contradictory principles of change and reassurance.

But Obama's realism encompasses social justice, and he nodded to Franklin D. Roosevelt's Four Freedoms. "True peace is not just freedom from fear," Obama said, directly channeling FDR, "but ...

Such an approach could properly be labeled 'pragmatic idealism.'" For now, that's likely the best bumper sticker we can get. Not bad at all, gentlemen - and it actually makes sense.

MADISON, Wis., Nov. 18 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say they have uncovered a specific process that they say contributes to unrealistic optimism. Study authors Robin J. Tanner of the University of ...