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Power politics

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A form of international relations in which sovereign entities protect their own interests by threatening one another with military, economic or political aggression. uncountable
  2. 2
    diplomacy in which the nations threaten to use force in order to obtain their objectives wordnet

Etymology

Calque of German Machtpolitik.

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