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Definition of Brinksmanship
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brinksmanship
Literary usage of Brinksmanship
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dealignment: A New Foreign Policy Perspective by Mary Kaldor, Richard A. Falk, Gerard Holden (1987)
"brinksmanship revisited is based on the following principles: 1 Europe is ...
Yet brinksmanship revisited is economic dynamite, exacerbating tensions with ..."
2. Sea-Changes: American foreign policy in a world transformed by Nicholas X. Rizopoulos (1990)
"... perhaps through unwitting exercises in economic brinksmanship that end up
unraveling, in a perverse game of tit for tat, the fabric of economic openness ..."
3. Security Awareness in the 1980s: Featured Articles From Security Awareness (1992)
"Everyone had laughed when, shortly before his arrest, he asked if he could deposit
$10000 in a bank without alerting the 1RS. Financial brinksmanship ..."
4. Endangered Species Recovery Act: Congressional Hearings edited by John H. Chafee (1999)
"We think it introduces an element of brinksmanship into this. And I would say,
based on my nearly twenty-year history with the implementation of the Clean ..."
5. New Millennium, New Perspectives: The United Nations, Security, and Governance by Ramesh Chandra Thakur, Edward Newman (2000)
"... the central opponents may be sustained, but with concomitant increases in
tension, arms races, strained communication, and brinksmanship diplomacy. ..."
6. Meeting the North Korean Nuclear Challenge: Report of an Independent Task Force by Morton Abramowitz, James T. Laney, Eric Heginbotham (2003)
"Pyongyang's penchant for brinksmanship and threats further undermine efforts to
understand the North. The Task Force's assessment of North Korea's position ..."
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