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The left may have not found any real answers to its predicaments, but through a
pragmatic
patchwork of policies and rhetoric it managed to reclaim the center stage.
It’s long past time for a far more realistic approach, in which the Security Council pushes Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Iran, and Israel into a
pragmatic
peace that ends the bloodshed and allows the Syrian people to resume their lives and livelihoods.
The Return of the Radicals in IranTwenty-six years after the Islamic Revolution, just when the West had expected Iran to settle down and become more pragmatic, the regime of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad seems to have lurched back toward radicalism.
Believing that stronger pursuit of revolutionary ideals is the only way to strengthen their country, these idealists seek to inspire a “return of the radicals,” triggering sharp conflict with their more
pragmatic
co-revolutionaries.
These pit the “honest radicals”- led by Ahmadinejad and supported by younger, second-generation revolutionaries known as the Abadgaran, or Developers, who are strong in the Iranian parliament, the Majlis- against the more corrupt and
pragmatic
mullahs who head the Party, led by Expediency Council Chairman and former President Hashemi Rafsanjani.
The reasoning of China’s elites is pragmatic: if the Chinese were reassured by the existence of a social–welfare state, they would probably save less and spend more, allowing the domestic market to take over from export-led growth.
The UN, as the quintessential symbol of international legitimacy and the rule of law, and the US, as the embodiment of
pragmatic
power and force, had a kind of alliance.
That
pragmatic
and courageous approach created the necessary space for the two leaders – neither of whom actually wanted a nuclear war – to retreat from the brink without losing face.
This
pragmatic
focus on results is equally evident in the QDDR’s emphasis on working with mayors around the world on issues like climate change.
Yet, with courage and commitment, they managed to produce a
pragmatic
compromise based on a set of key principles – a compromise that opened the way for far-reaching cooperation and, indeed, the emergence of today’s interconnected and interdependent world.
But the approach that will bring the most progress is a “middle passage” that smooths contradictions and offers a balanced, accommodative, and
pragmatic
vision behind which Africans can unite.
After former US Vice President Al Gore lost his bid for the presidency in 2000, he became a leader of the social movement to combat global climate change, and his style changed from
pragmatic
to inspirational and prophetic.
The foundational values of cooperatives embody not only a humane vision, but also a
pragmatic
approach to production that has enabled the successful ones to thrive – and to spur economic growth in countries that desperately need it.
Consider Jeremy Corbyn, who has moved the United Kingdom’s Labour Party sharply to the left and away from the
pragmatic
approach of Tony Blair’s New Labour.
Another casualty is the quality of public policy: evidence-based policies that change according to circumstances on the ground, or
pragmatic
approaches that retain policies that work and discard those that don’t, cannot sustain a group’s clear identity if the policies the group advocates are shifting all the time.
Barring the worst-case scenario of populist victories in the French election this May and the German election this September, European leaders should seize the opportunity later this year to pursue more ambitious, but pragmatic, reforms.
Toward that end, European leaders need to take a
pragmatic
first step to rebuild the trust needed for more substantial policy innovations in the future.
Furthermore, the EU’s refusal to accept any trade-off on values like the rule of law is impeding its ability to become a more
pragmatic
negotiator.
The word Yalta, too, has assumed a life of its own, serving for years as a symbol of a division of the world by the great powers: of the large and powerful deciding the fate of the small and powerless without asking their advice, of inadmissibly
pragmatic
concessions or compromises by democratic governments vis-?-vis the overpowering strength of a totalitarian regime.
In response, however, more
pragmatic
voters are increasingly irate about political paralysis and their governing institutions’ inability to respond to the preferences of a clear majority of the population.
EU enlargement cannot continue without the many practical and
pragmatic
elements included in the Lisbon Treaty.
Licensing the opium crop would be a realistic and
pragmatic
cornerstone of that strategy’s success.
Beneath ostensibly
pragmatic
motivations lies dubious rent-seeking by the group Samuel Coleridge referred to as the “clerisy” – those who live from creating, preserving, and disseminating the national culture.
As a
pragmatic
matter, it would also backfire, by giving the Trump camp another opportunity to demonize the “liberal elite.”
The electoral successes of Bill Clinton in the US and Tony Blair in the United Kingdom had much to do with their deliberate tilts towards the pragmatic, neoliberal, business-friendly center.
Jean Monnet, who inspired the project, was
pragmatic
and daring.
Nowadays at the College of Europe, the “culture of doubt” among students from Old Europe seems to prevail over what was once the
pragmatic
confidence of students from New Europe.
It also requires the courage to step out of the world of
pragmatic
power and defend -- non-violently -- truth and justice wherever they are violated, whether or not profitable commercial contracts are placed at risk.
So to maintain creditworthiness, the country has been forced to adopt
pragmatic
economic policies that today deliver an unusual economic openness -- this, and not the ephemeral benefits of "goulash socialism" is the longterm hope for the Hungarian economy.
Many post-Wall voters stand on the margins of established parties or are forming parties of their own, while a more
pragmatic
group is being pulled between the old order and new movements.
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