America also intends to keep up the pressure on North Korea, another nuclear renegade which, the realists believe, understands nothing but power.
The realists think they can engineer a recovery by more central planning, forcing whole economies to run surpluses or deficits as their theories suggest.
They have encountered fierce resistance from the realists in the State Department (particularly over deeper involvement in Darfur) and from business Republicans (particularly over China).
And then there are the realists (a group to which I hope I belong) who would say that we are not in a recession yet but we might as well be.
As the "realists" claim that the US has no option other than their failed appeasement policies, back in the real world, this week military officials from the US's Pacific Command warned that North Korea may supply Iran with intercontinental ballistic missiles.
When you think about it, broadcasting Ahmadinejad really would have been a public service if Byrne or any of the delusional "realists" calling the shots were remotely interested in listening to what he has to say.
This harks back to the New Realists school unfolding in France, late fifties, early sixties.
North Korea's behavior is of no interest to the "realists, " however.
By freeing itself, the region and the world from the threat of a nuclear armed Iran, Israel will strike a blow not only at Iran's ability to wipe it off the map, but at the threefold contentions of the false realists.
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The expected climb-down is sure to bring back the Baker-Hamilton "realists" with fresh calls for offering the mullahs a seat at the high table.
Global warming alarmists put their trust in the media, while global warming realists put their trust in the science.
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In light of the incoming Obama administration's palpable hostility toward Israel, and particularly toward Israel's political realists, the results of the Likud primary this past Monday were especially significant.
The Talladega murals are the deserved stars of "Rising Up, " but the show as a whole affirms Woodruff's place among America's pre-eminent social realists of the 1930s and early 1940s.
Spider-Man himself, wounded in the leg, hitches a ride on a succession of huge cranes, in a scene that even the most muscular of Soviet realists would have considered risible: Heroic crane operators of the world, unite!
We are also cold-eyed realists about the challenges that reaching such a deal are presented -- or present themselves.
On the other hand, it is permissible to excoriate Myanmar or Cambodia on humanitarian grounds, since neither country poses the kind of threat to the international system that realists care about.
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It will take visionaries like Taniguchi to bring the hydrogen economy closer, say realists like Masasuke Takata, a professor at Nagoaka University of Technology in Niigata, and to keep the public's expectations a few notches below the utterly impossible.
While Rice says that in foreign policy "America's values are extremely important, " she hews closer to the tradition of Korbel and other realists, such as Hans Morgenthau, who place greater weight on defending strategic interests and tending to the balance of power.
Of course, "realists" argue the U.S. has more important issues to pursue with Kim and cannot afford to upset him.
Similarly, pessimists - or perhaps realists - within the education sector are not expecting any kind of miracle recovery for Wales at the next round of international PISA tests for pupils.
So-called foreign policy realists, particularly in the academic world, believe that the competing interests of states tend automatically toward balance and require no statesmanlike action by the U.S. To them, the old language of force in international politics has become as obsolete as that of the "code duello, " which regulated individual honor fights through the early 19th century.
Realists may well retort that the true story of 20th-century war-crimes trials was one of failure and compromise.
These so-called realists in this instance are the dreamers, the fantasizers.
Realists understand that objectives of the U.S. and Chinese governments will not always be the same, thus U.S. and Chinese policies will not always be congruous.
Some people would even suggest those types are just being realists, that any sense of privacy on the Internet is an illusion anyway.
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