"In the vagueness and vastness of this ambition, open-ended with a vengeance, realism dissolves itself into a potentially all-purpose justification of any of the adventures conducted in the name of liberalism."
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Perry Anderson, American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers (2014), Ch. 11 : Realist Ideals
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