Jaw-jaw

The EEC and America jaw-jawed their way to the brink of an all-out war over limiting European steel exports to the United States.

...in certain contexts extensive and prolonged jaw-jawing — in the form of treaty-making — can serve to inhibit the resort to war.

We might have five of us jaw-jawing. You don't have that any more. I hate to lose that; it was a great joy in my life.