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What prevails nowadays in New Delhi and Moscow is simple pragmatism.
Americans’ pragmatism, opportunism, fair-mindedness, inventiveness, adaptability, optimism, and, above all, their inherent competitiveness offset their tendencies toward violence, impatience, self-righteousness, and unpredictability, their fondness for novelty and celebrity for their own sake, and their self-assertion en masse – getting there, as they like to say, “fastest with the mostest.”
But, as with its 1991 financial crisis, India was able to emerge with a revamped foreign policy – one that abandoned the country’s quixotic traditions and embraced greater realism and pragmatism.
After this immersion in US pragmatism, my return to British politics was deeply depressing.
We proceeded with caution and pragmatism in the management of the exchange rate of our currency and our monetary affairs, leading to a measure of stability.
The United Kingdom – the homeland of pragmatism and realism, a country of unflappable principles and unmatched adaptability that stoically gave up its empire after successfully defending Europe’s freedom against Nazi Germany – has now lost its way.
Persistence, pragmatism, and some willingness to experiment will help.
It has been in no one’s interest to disturb this live-and let-live pragmatism for very long.
But, of course, the sub-text is that if this fixation on property has also led to greater pragmatism in affairs of the heart, it has also led to a worrisome property bubble that many economists now fear could soon burst.
The traditional virtues of “true love” have been replaced by pragmatism and a willingness to become a mistress before youth expires and all chances of getting a good apartment are lost.
More and more young women are making just such practical choices: putting an apartment before love and pragmatism before principle.
Somewhere at the intersection of pragmatism and ideology lies foreign policy.
And there is scant evidence to support the claim that businesspeople somehow embody pragmatism, given that so many powerful US business leaders are committed ideologues.
The first is policy pragmatism.
It is not only America's enduring willingness to use her unique power in ways generally benign to international stability that should put fears over this trend to rest; nor the other familiar phenomenon that American administrations tend to start off with ideology before they arrive at pragmatism.
Daniel Bell and Raymond Aron wrote about the end of fascist and communist ideology in the hope that we would enter an age of pragmatism in which politics would be a subject of argument and debate, not belief and total worldviews.
Obama’s openness and pragmatism have turned the US into a partner, but it is uncertain how long he will stay in the White House and how strong will he will be in the future.
Ideologically this all boils down to a growing concentration of majority support around a relatively depoliticized pragmatism which lacks principles but avoids extremes.
However, being radical does not necessarily mean being irrational, and revolutionary Iran has given frequent proof of its pragmatism.
Paradoxically, his optimism stems from a conviction that the threat of chaos will push the British to reconsider their choice, as John Bull’s pragmatism ultimately returns and prevails.
Qatar’s role in bringing about a resolution, alongside that of Turkey in mediating Syrian-Israeli talks, signals a return to pragmatism in Middle East relations.
Cohen and I argue that there is a better alternative to the ideological approach: pragmatism.
But it is a method of decision-making that has had numerous champions throughout the country’s history;US Presidents Dwight Eisenhower, Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln all placed pragmatism ahead of ideology.
Rather, it is a measured transition toward political pragmatism.
Even more than current economic struggles, which are driven largely by global forces, peace in Colombia will reinforce for Latin American voters the benefits of pragmatism over ideology – something that even FARC has recognized.
The referendum decision to leave the EU will be honored, but its harsh economic consequences will be postponed: a triumph of pragmatism over ideology.
While pragmatism has come to dominate northern Europe’s socialist parties since the 1930’s – and, after the 1957 Congress of Bad Godesberg, the Germany’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) as well – a preference for revolutionary ideology has always prevailed, at least on the rhetorical level, among French socialists.
Though it would be premature to announce a trend, one can hope that pragmatism and compromise will prevail over the moral righteousness of political extremes.
Nonetheless, there is reason for optimism: pragmatism is proving more powerful than idealism.
That domestic transparency and pragmatism will need to be carried over into international economic diplomacy.
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