Professors World Peace Academy

Intro­duc­tion to Decem­ber 2009 IJWP

Realpoli­tik is a term derived from Ger­man. It refers to a pol­i­tics based on prac­ti­cal and mate­r­ial fac­tors rather than on the­o­ret­i­cal or eth­i­cal objec­tives (Merriam-Webster dic­tio­nary). His­tor­i­cally, many polit­i­cal plat­forms have been based on the­o­ret­i­cal, reli­gious, ide­o­log­i­cal, or moral arguments.

Most visions of ideal soci­eties, as dis­parate as Plato, Con­fu­cius, Jesus, and […]