Word: brinkmanship
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...Iranian Brinkmanship...
...Tehran insists on exercising its right to enrich uranium as part of a civilian nuclear energy program, but the same technology would allow Iran to build a nuclear weapon - and the Western powers don't trust Iran's intent. Breaking the seals at Natanz is either an exercise in brinkmanship designed to improve Iran's bargaining position, or else it reflects a decision to break out of the framework it had been negotiating with the European Union and accelerate its pursuit of the technological capability to build a nuclear weapon. Either way, the U.S. and its European partners are treating...
...Tehran has, over the past two years, repeatedly pushed the IAEA and the Europeans to the brink before backing down. The latest moves could be the beginning of cooperation with the West over its nuclear program, but they could also be more brinkmanship. The next few weeks should tell...
...actions of U.N. troops who killed more than 50 militiamen in a gunfight in the northeastern Ituri region. U.N. officials said the peacekeepers were fired on first and acted in self-defense. The militia was thought to be responsible for slaying nine Bangladeshi peacekeepers a week earlier. More Brinkmanship NORTH KOREA The government announced that it no longer felt bound by a self-imposed 1999 moratorium on long-range missile testing, and blamed the "hostile policy" of the U.S. toward Pyongyang for compelling it to boost its "self-defensive nuclear arsenal." The move came amid ongoing efforts to persuade North...
...with her performance for months, particularly after some dismal earnings numbers were posted last summer. Increasingly disillusioned with her inability to deliver the profits she promised, the board was stung by her refusal to make changes or relinquish operating responsibility in HP's floundering computer business. "She played a brinkmanship game and didn't realize the other side wouldn't budge," says Rob Enderle, a tech analyst in San Jose, Calif. "It's a game she's used to playing. She bet wrong...