power politics
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Tweet n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb) International diplomacy in which each nation uses or threatens to use military or economic power to further its own interests: "The Cold War undermined the Wilsonian dream of a world beyond power politics" (Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.) [Translation of German Machtpolitik.] |
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