Word: brinkmanship
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...approve it. He aggressively directed every logistical detail of it. And, in the end, Ariel ("Arik") Sharon, 54, will reap the rewards, or the blame, for the success or failure of the enterprise. The stakes were high: Sharon hopes to become Prime Minister of Israel one day. But brinkmanship has always been his game. As one veteran Israeli politician observed last week, "He may just pull it off. If he does, it will make him a hero...
...Sunday Times, one of many London papers that printed subsequent stories about the buggings, quoted an "impeccable source" as saying: "That was why Lord Carrington could conduct the conference on the basis of brinkmanship. The intelligence sources told him where all the brinks were." A spokesman for the Prime Minister refused to confirm or deny the report...
Carter aides figured a 15% to 20% run-up in oil prices as part of their 1980 forecast. M.I.T. Oil Economist Morris A. Adelman argues that OPEC has adopted a tactic of "permanent brinkmanship," which will keep the oil supply just short of world demand, while continuing to raise prices. The U.S. must fight back by substantially cutting consumption. But Adelman fears that "our national rhetoric is balanced by our reluctance to do anything...
...that such actions have grave international consequences. But Carter's militaristic response is not the right answer. The president is relying on the same assumptions that have doomed our foreign policy in the past--the belief in a bipolar world, in matching militarism with militarism. He is playing brinkmanship with the Soviets, threatening them with war to check their warlike advance...
...from its predecessors by being "less hung up," as he once put it, on the Soviet challenge. He sought a "differentiated" foreign policy freed from the we/they, East/West bipolarity that underlay Henry Kissinger's Realpolitik no less than Dean Acheson's containment and John Foster Dulles' brinkmanship...