US foreign policy takes 'neo-realist' approach By Alec Russell in Washington (Filed: 09/02/2006) A shift in the Bush administration's approach to the world from "with us or against us" to diplomacy has led to the coinage of a new phrase - "neo-realism" - to describe the philosophy of the key figures behind the president's foreign policy. Neo-realism is intended as a play on neo-conservatism, the belief in a muscular foreign policy that dominated the administration's thinking after the September 11 attacks. Dick Cheney: 'We are obviously pursuing a diplomatic road' The neo-realists are seen as pragmatists who seek aggressively to...