Raison d’Etat abandoned imperial ambition for permanent competitive equilibrium among states.

Evidence

Raison d’Etat, on the other hand, accepts that every state has its interests and consequently has to defend these interests, and to defend themabsolutelyhut the state’s obje<:tive must not be that ofreturning to the unifying position ofa total and global empire at the end of time. It must not dream that one day it will be the empire ofthe lastday. Each state must limit its objectives, ensure its inde= pendence, and ensure that its forces are such that it will never be in an inferior position with respect to the set ofother countries, or to its neighbors, or to the strongest of all the other countries (there are different theories of European balance at this tie, but that’s not important here). — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, 154

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Imperialism made power an end in itself rather than a means to law; Imperialism replaces limited national-interest goals with limitless, directionless power expansion. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 28; The idealist appeal of unity concealed a permanent-war dynamic that went undetected — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 418

Broader Connections

• Imperialism replaces limited national-interest goals with limitless, directionless power expansion. #contradicts (0.80) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 28
• Imperialism made power an end in itself rather than a means to law #contradicts (0.75)
• The idealist appeal of unity concealed a permanent-war dynamic that went undetected #contradicts (0.72) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 418