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

When looking into the history of the East and West, there has always been different enlightenment periods – from the West’s Age of Enlightenment to the East’s Hundred Flowers Campaign. What shared ...

In foreign policy, idealism can take you only so far. The dichotomy between idealism and realism can be traced back to the contrasting views of thinkers like Immanuel Kant and Thomas Hobbes. Kant ...

Books Received Published: 25 September 1926 A Theory of Direct Realism: and the Relation of Realism to Idealism Nature 118, 438–439 (1926) Cite this article ...

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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.

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 ...

To be safe and practical means eventual doom. As Tony Blair put it at a discussion of world problems in Davos, “Idealism is the new realism.” I couldn’t agree more.

Bring realism, not idealism, to science By Anthony Sadar February 6, 2025 6:00 am ...