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gunboat diplomacy

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gunboat diplomacy
n.
Diplomacy involving intimidation by threat or use of military force: "in the days when gunboat diplomacy was a more accepted tool of world powers" (Christian Science Monitor).
gunboat diplomacy
n
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) diplomacy conducted by threats of military intervention, esp by a major power against a militarily weak state
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Noun1.gunboat diplomacy - diplomacy in which the nations threaten to use force in order to obtain their objectives
power politics
diplomacy, diplomatic negotiations - negotiation between nations


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France's Liberation on the same day mocked Spain's gunboat diplomacy, arguing that the islet was merely a pretext "for more serious underlying tensions," since the Strait of Gibraltar marks "an explosive border separating the worlds of North and South, prosperity and misery.
Morocco has "chosen the path of confrontation," says Spain's El ... by Jones, Lucy / Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
Writing in an age before the advent of American gunboat diplomacy and Yankee imperialism in Latin America (the Monroe Doctrine notwithstanding), Sarmiento looked to the United States as a model of what a liberal, progressive, and modernizing Argentina might become.
Big Daddy: the dictator novel and the liberation of Latin America by Moses, Michael Valdez / Reason
In fighting this "asymmetrical" threat, gunboat diplomacy, applied pre-emptively if need be, offers the only practical solution.
Echoes from the barbary coast by Fishbein, Rand H. / The National Interest
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