brinkmanship

English

Alternative forms

• brinksmanship

Etymology

Attested since 1956. From brink +‎ -manship.

Noun

brinkmanship (usually uncountable, plural brinkmanships)

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

   The diplomat accused the other nation's leader of brinkmanship for refusing to redeploy the troops along their nations' shared border.

Derived terms

• brinkman (back-formation)

See also

• brinksman
• gamesmanship
• one-upmanship

Translations

pursuit of an advantage

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 邊緣政策, 边缘政策 (biānyuán zhèngcè)

• Finnish: uhkailu (fi)
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Further reading

• brinkmanship on Wikipedia.Wikipedia