Word: brinkmanship
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...campaigns for next year’s national elections heat up, barbs on candidates’ attitudes and voting history on Iraq, unsurprisingly, are flying. What is more surprising, or perhaps ironic in light of the current budgetary brinkmanship between the White House and Capitol Hill, is the degree to which candidates of all ilks are distancing themselves from President Bush’s policies. The President has made clear his aversion for timetables for withdrawal from Iraq. But even if he continues to wield his veto and Congress lacks the votes to override him, he must realize, from...
...other provinces for gay unions, is the last straw in a series of offenses indicating a massive Western disregard for the authority of the Bible. They say he is not so much trying to blow up the communion as force it, by negotiation and a certain degree of brinkmanship, to rein itself...
...Russian one and suggested a constitutional change that could allow the formal inclusion of Belarus in the Russian Federation. A decade later, both countries say they still intend to implement the agreement, but the dying days of 2006 saw their once cordial relations deteriorate into a battle of brinkmanship. Moscow warned it would turn off gas supplies unless Belarus agreed to hike the price it paid for the fuel. Belarus countered with a threat to block the pipeline through Belarus that transmits 20% of all Russia's gas exports to Europe...
...School fellow Jason Qian and Kennedy School research fellow Anne Wu had warned of North Korean nuclear proliferation in a July 24 op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle: “Already being isolated and deprived, North Korea has little to lose by pursuing brinkmanship...
...once the dust settles, it will become clear that North Korea's nuclear defiance may have made the prospects for a U.S. policy of regime-change even more remote. And if security guarantees from the U.S. eventually become the price for North Korea giving up its nukes, Pyongyang's brinkmanship would have arguably achieved its diplomatic goal...