{"id":18739,"date":"2026-05-24T11:41:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T11:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/05\/24\/is-pragmatism-replacing-ideology-in-international-affairs-al-jazeera\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T11:41:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T11:41:29","slug":"is-pragmatism-replacing-ideology-in-international-affairs-al-jazeera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/05\/24\/is-pragmatism-replacing-ideology-in-international-affairs-al-jazeera\/","title":{"rendered":"Is pragmatism replacing ideology in international affairs? &#8211; Al Jazeera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Overlapping interests and conflict are shaping modern relations.\u00a0<br \/>The United States and India are seeking to mend ties after a year of diplomatic see-saw during which tariffs were imposed and then quickly scrapped because of the US-Israel war on Iran.<br \/>This is just one example of how international relations and conflict have become more complex and interlinked in recent years.<br \/>So, is pragmatism replacing ideology in today\u2019s diplomatic world?<br \/><strong>Presenter<\/strong>: Scott McLean<br \/><strong>Guests<\/strong>:<br \/>Brahma Chellaney \u2013 Professor emeritus of strategic studies at the Centre for Policy Research<br \/>Chris Weafer \u2013 Chief executive officer at Macro-Advisory strategic consultancy<br \/>Shaun Rein \u2013 Founder and managing director of the China Market Research Group<br \/>Save<br \/>Share<br \/>Follow Al Jazeera English:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMipwFBVV95cUxQUTQxRzRfaUllZ05wNlY4Y1I2RDdPRDVfOHkzbTVJOFNkUm5nbmFNcm80T2xBQ25QZExhT0tubEsxcndEZ1ZodVV5UkNRRkpGTnk1NE1mMl83T3ZHVlNfd1paNUZPbmNEbEpPUU9KTUFmUVdxQ2pUTzMwVWRPUmltdmFzcXpZVC1Bd3BLQk9BV01qYm95ajZnQU42bjhYU0l6Q1IyOXRFUdIBrAFBVV95cUxQZkVEc213XzFneS1sT1VYdWI1aUp3YTE0RXFycU9QX2lwaUN0Ykd5VVBIbjUtcm5lblNpcnNJMGd6VVRBTXFIb2dua2lpVUtaZzJxT0hwdmFxTlZmQnItb3ktVjJzLTB3SEVhV3BKYjNsbU9OaFlpY1RYQjhma19PVFJpMG54WmJqYUY0MnFOb05COEZuZWZ4ZjRkSGw5WElDUzhHbDRFQnkzWlpR?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overlapping interests and conflict are shaping modern relations.\u00a0The United States and India are seeking to mend ties after a year of diplomatic see-saw during which tariffs were imposed and then quickly scrapped because of the US-Israel war on Iran.This is just one example of how international relations and conflict have become more complex and interlinked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}