Machtpolitik

Other variations include Weltpolitik (participation in world affairs) and Machtpolitik (political action based on military might).

Week in Words Erin McKean 2011

While he wanted to defeat the German war machine and abolish what he considered the domestic sources of German Machtpolitik, he wanted to leave Germany some residual strength at the end of the war in order to restrain what he considered the traditional, self-interested ambitions of the Entente powers.

How Wars end Gideon Rose 2010

Piety could be no excuse for neglecting the demands of a Machtpolitik whose victories might even be presented to believers as reflecting the higher will of God.

An Introductory Anti-Capitalist Manifesto 2007

Allow such a vision to triumph in Catholic circles and worries about the morality of Machtpolitik and sexual libertinism must logically disappear as well.

An Introductory Anti-Capitalist Manifesto 2007

Liberal proponents of American Values praise the freedom that opens the floodgates to gay marriage and pornography; conservatives, the liberty unleashing that locust plague called unrestrained capitalism; neo-conservatives the license for lying, murderous Machtpolitik.

Founding Fathers vs. Church Fathers 2007

Prince Otto von Bismarck of Prussia and Count Camillo Cavour of Sardinia saw that the rules of Machtpolitik yielded their states an immediately greater power and wealth than any nation following the guidelines of a St. Louis IX or a Pius IX might expect.

An Introductory Anti-Capitalist Manifesto 2007

For neoconservatives, who have long used the velvet glove of pro-democracy rhetoric to hide the steel fist of what has consistently been a U.S.- and Israel-centered Machtpolitik, Vice Pres.

Easter Lemming Liberal News 2005

For neoconservatives, who have long used the velvet glove of pro-democracy rhetoric to hide the steel fist of what has consistently been a U.S.- and Israel-centered Machtpolitik, Vice Pres.

Archive 2005-01-01 2005

Machtpolitik posturing, from certain people, with an agenda.

Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk 2010

Crucial to this civic educational project was, according to Weber, exposing citizens to the harsh reality of “eternal struggle,” or power-politics (Machtpolitik) among the nation-states with which Germany had to engage actively [Weber 1895/1994,

Asthmatic 2009