Today’s “Word of the Day” is cold calculation and it is a noun meaning “a pragmatic, unemotional, and strictly logical assessment of a situation focused purely on strategic or self-interest outcomes; dispassionate assessment, unsentimental evaluation, calculated move, rational analysis, ruthless logic; pragmatism, rationality, expediency, shrewdness, realpolitik”.
Example Sentence: The best definition of foreign policy was given by Jawaharlal Nehru in a letter to Einstein written a few weeks before India’s independence. Foreign policy, Nehru wrote, essentially is selfish. The only principle it follows is the principle of national interest. The Narendra Modi government is essentially following Nehru’s foreign policy, that is ‘selfish’ foreign policy. Its approach to the Iran war seems to be based on a cold calculation that India has too much at stake with America and the Gulf states.
This word is present in India’s Iran stance does fuel a foreign policy debate and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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