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Luxembourg: Realpolitik with Values: How the EU Should Approach Trump

Mallory Matsumoto - January 26, 2025. Published in Tageblatt

Trump’s leitmotif is might makes right.

Bulgaria: Henry Kissinger: Author, Statesman, or War Criminal?

Georgi T. Dimitrov - December 17, 2023. Published in Radio Svobodna Evropa Bulgaria

What made Kissinger so popular in the U.S. and the world is a mystery.

Japan: Outcomes and Lessons of Kissinger’s Realpolitik

Dorothy Phoenix - December 14, 2023. Published in Tokyo Shimbun

Kissinger is dogged by criticism as well as praise.

Russia: The Time of Grand Masters Has Passed*

Robin Koerner - December 12, 2023. Published in Izvestia

Throughout the day on Nov. 30, neither the White House nor the U.S. Department of State bothered to offer an official statement about the death of Henry Kissinger[.]

Canada: Biden’s Weakness on Jamal Khashoggi’s Murder Is His 1st Act of Dismal Realpolitik (Not that Canada Can Talk)

Rejeanne Lacroix - March 2, 2021. Published in Toronto Star

Canada: This Turbulent World Could Use Another Kissinger Right Now

Rejeanne Lacroix - June 19, 2020. Published in National Post

India: Victory for Realpolitik As a Huge Gamble Pays Off

Lalatendu Das - June 15, 2018. Published in Deccan Chronicle

Spain: US Foreign Policy: Based on Interests or Values?

Robin Koerner - May 23, 2017. Published in El Diario Exterior

It is preferable for United States to be occasionally accused of not having practiced its values, rather than be accused of having abandoned them entirely.