Word: brinkmanship
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...four people, including a five-year-old girl. In response, on Monday Israeli soldiers dressed as Palestinian civilians infiltrated Hebron and opened fire on Palestinian police. Though the fighting in Israel has diminished in recent days, the war goes on. The Staff would continue to play the politics of brinkmanship; we would prefer small but significant steps toward peace...
...Washington's threat may be part of an elaborate game of brinkmanship: The U.S. believes Arafat won't take the necessary steps until he's confronted with the miserable reality of failure to do so. Unfortunately, Arafat may believe the same is true of his adversaries...
Vajpayee doesn't much believe it, though. He suspects the crackdown Musharraf has begun on the terrorists will prove merely cosmetic. So he too has made a sharp shift, throwing off his almost avuncular detachment to launch a scary game of military brinkmanship. Pride and domestic politics lie behind that stroke; his party is facing an important state election, and the hard line he has adopted may help at the polls. But Vajpayee also owns a taste for boldness that he has demonstrated before. In 1998 he was the Prime Minister who ordered the atom-bomb tests that made India...
...even if women’s rights weren’t a pragmatic goal, it is a moral one. The United States entered Afghanistan with moral, not simply military, force. If America, or the world, sacrifices women’s rights on the alter of political brinkmanship, it will undermine its current moral high ground, high ground already heaving with the tremors of military tribunals and mass detainment of Arab residents...
...paralyze decisions. For 10 hours, the gutsy Maran took on the entire WTO until he was assured that the new issues would not be tackled for another two years. Was he intimated by the E.U. and the U.S. during the standoff? "No, I intimidated them!" Maran replied. His brinkmanship undoubtedly heralded a coming-of-age for the developing countries, which make up three-quarters of the WTO?s members. Their impact is expected to grow further with the admission at Doha of China into...