The grizzled ex-cop Mike, with his dry wisecracks and his Realpolitik masculinity, fulfills our antihero needs.
It is when other policies have become mixed with that foreign-policy realpolitik that trouble has arisen.
Microsoft practises Realpolitik in China, explains Tom Robertson, its main intellectual-property lawyer in the region.
The current mess is, after all, a direct consequence of that piece of misguided realpolitik.
But even for someone like Mr Bush, idealism has to be tempered with realpolitik.
But it should not be forgotten that Americans also have a genius for mixing realpolitik with their religion.
This is the basic tenet behind 19th-century realpolitik, which Putin fully subscribes to.
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On two fronts, Obama has displayed sharp concern for "values" over realpolitik--or whatever we might call the above mix.
All this serves China's interests well: few nations are better practised in realpolitik.
Civic Platform no doubt exists at the pleasure of Putin, forcing Prokhorov to temper short-term ambitions and instead play realpolitik.
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This spry former academic is seen as the architect of Turkey's soft power, which blends realpolitik with a fierce pride.
Among the masters of realpolitik Nicos Sampson may have had no more than a small role, if a violent one.
Perhaps, however, Mr MacAskill's moralising is merely rhetorical chaff, thrown up to disguise the realpolitik that lay behind the release.
The last year taught us an important lesson: What used to be called "realpolitik" is not actually "real" any more.
And in the halls of Washington the ideas of Realpolitik ruled.
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But now is exactly the wrong time for a short-sighted realpolitik approach.
Ex-European Mrs Albright sounds fully at home in America, and her higher-mindedness sits more easily on the American mind than Mr Kissinger's realpolitik.
Their model is another semi-dictatorship, Pakistan, where an alliance with the United States has been based not on shared ideals but on old-fashioned realpolitik.
And unlike its member states the EU as a union is bad at realpolitik, being a slow-moving bureaucracy based on rules and legal texts.
For Europe and the U.S., realpolitik means understanding they can never outbid China, Russia or any other conscience-free competitor in supplying investment-as-aid to Southern Africa.
Praise indeed, from the West's pre-eminent practitioner of Realpolitik, whose mastery of the art of ideology-free diplomacy enabled President Nixon's visit to China in 1972.
Those who believe in realpolitik argue that Mourinho is simply trying to get some kind of a psychological edge for his next encounters with Barcelona.
The new note is realpolitik: hardnosed deals with Germany and Russia.
But it is widely accepted that realpolitik triumphed under General Kriangsak.
Surely our sophisticated European friends would appreciate our sense of Realpolitik in ensuring that they don't make a moral hazard of our guarantee of their security.
But the two countries have buried ancient enmities, and the prevailing view in France is that the relationship should nowadays be pragmatic and based firmly on realpolitik.
The necessary business of Realpolitik would be protected by the rules of diplomatic immunity (which Britain says the general did not enjoy) that exist for expressly that purpose.
In some cases China perhaps a little hard-nosed realpolitik is called for.
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