brinkmanship

(noun)

Pursuit of an advantage by appearing to be willing to risk a dangerous policy rather than concede a point.

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Examples of brinkmanship in the following topics:

  • The Nuclear Arms Race

    • Both Soviet and American experts hoped to use nuclear weapons for extracting concessions from the other, or from other powers such as China, but the risk connected with using these weapons was so grave that they refrained from what John Foster Dulles referred to as brinkmanship.