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Gunboat diplomacy

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Noun
  1. 1
    The pursuit of foreign policy objectives with the aid of conspicuous displays of military power. countable, idiomatic, uncountable

    "The British and French, who had sought to make policy by reviving 19th century gunboat diplomacy, had temporarily lost their credentials for world statesmanship."

  2. 2
    diplomacy in which the nations threaten to use force in order to obtain their objectives wordnet

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