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    Brinkmanship or brinksmanship is the practice of trying to achieve an advantageous outcome by pushing dangerous events to the brink of active conflict...
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  • mutual assured destruction of nuclear warfare, especially the sort of brinkmanship involved in the Cuban Missile Crisis. The game of chicken models two...
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  • make some concessions. It is a type of extortion that is related to brinkmanship. Nuclear blackmail is usually ineffective against a rational opponent...
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    Nonetheless, the Boipatong massacre offered the ANC a pretext to engage in brinkmanship. Mandela argued that de Klerk, as head of state, was responsible for...
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  • Portfolio". Retrieved 4 February 2013. Henderson, Bruce (March 1967). "Brinkmanship in business". Harvard Business Review. Delves Broughton, Philip (2011-06-08)...
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    (Penguin Group: London, 2003) Jackson, Michael Gordon (2005). "Beyond Brinkmanship: Eisenhower, Nuclear War Fighting, and Korea, 1953–1968". Presidential...
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    Kashmir, beginning in late 2001. This conflict was primarily one of brinkmanship, with the threat of nuclear warfare.: 88  Riots in Gujarat and suicide...
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    The 2006 Canadian federal election was held on January 23, 2006, to elect members to the House of Commons of Canada of the 39th Parliament of Canada. New...
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    territories. The whole empire was thus drawn into a new style of diplomatic brinkmanship, which was first conceived of by Andrássy, centering on the province...
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    region" and also that "Only a decade of death, destruction, and Milošević brinkmanship pushed NATO to act when the Rambouillet talks collapsed. Most of the...
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    state power that it would bring. Eden was irked by Dulles's policy of "brinkmanship", the display of muscle, in relations with the communist world. In particular...
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  • postscript to the hastily-convened decider to what was, after all the brinkmanship, a hastily-convened tournament". Sports portal List of European Rugby...
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    leader. Reagan's foreign policy towards the Soviets wavered between brinkmanship and cooperation. Reagan appreciated Gorbachev's revolutionary change...
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    for a precarious diplomatic situation. The international politics of brinkmanship led leaders to exclaim their willingness to participate in a nuclear...
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  • Korean and Iranian nuclear ambitions Strained relations and a state of brinkmanship between India and Pakistan Legislation of the Central American Free Trade...
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    of massive retaliation and brinkmanship. In an article written for Life magazine, Dulles defined his policy of brinkmanship: "The ability to get to the...
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  • December 1964 by Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York under the title The Brinkmanship of Galahad Threepwood, and in the United Kingdom on 26 August 1965 by...
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    restrained and isolated ground combat, set within tactics of low-level brinkmanship. Combat was usually conducted by company- or platoon-sized operations...
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    view that the Suez crisis had been a great triumph for Soviet nuclear brinkmanship, arguing publicly and privately that his threat to use nuclear weapons...
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    the originating novel Dune "an epic of political betrayal, ecological brinkmanship, and messianic deliverance." Director John Harrison, who adapted Dune...
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    Wikidata Q64022945. Petr Lunak, "Khrushchev and the Berlin Crisis: Soviet brinkmanship seen from inside." Cold War History 3.2 (2003): 53–82. Berlin Airport...
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    Retrieved June 10, 2023. "Pa. Congresswoman Summer Lee condemns debt ceiling brinkmanship". www.wesa.fm. May 30, 2023. "Active shooter calls send panic across...
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    the start of a nuclear war with the capitalist bloc. Chinese nuclear brinkmanship was a threat to peaceful coexistence. The crisis and ongoing nuclear...
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    grave that they refrained from what John Foster Dulles referred to as brinkmanship. While some, like General Douglas MacArthur, argued nuclear weapons should...
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    submission to a binding international tribunal, further direct negotiations, brinkmanship, and settlement. The conflict was resolved through papal mediation and...
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    principle, yet voted against it at a meeting. After much negotiating and brinkmanship on both sides Everton vacated Anfield, leaving Houlding with an empty...
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    liberal governments be established on the Continent. He also practised brinkmanship and bluff in that he was prepared to threaten war to achieve Britain's...
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    of Representatives. March 22, 2018. "Pelosi Statement on Trump Trade Brinkmanship". United States House of Representatives. May 29, 2018. Archived from...
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    tried to dissuade Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif from nuclear brinkmanship, even threatening Pakistan of dire consequences. According to a White...
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  • was something wrong, phony and funny about a world of bomb shelters, brinkmanship and toothpaste smiles. Mad's consciousness of itself, as trash, as comic...
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