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power politics
n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb)
International diplomacy in which each nation uses or threatens to use military or economic power to further its own interests: “The Cold War undermined the Wilsonian dream of a world beyond power politics” (Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.).[Translation of German Machtpolitik.]
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Universalium. 2010.