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  2. Appeasement - Wikipedia

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    Appeasement, in an international context, is a diplomatic negotiation policy of making political, material, or territorial concessions to an aggressive power with intention to avoid conflict. [1]

  3. Bread and circuses - Wikipedia

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    Bread and circuses" (or "bread and games"; from Latin: panem et circenses) is a metonymic phrase referring to superficial appeasement. It is attributed to Juvenal (Satires, Satire X), a Roman poet active in the late first and early second century AD, and is used commonly in cultural, particularly political, contexts.

  4. Peace and conflict studies - Wikipedia

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    Appeasement in a strategy of making political, material, or territorial concessions to an aggressive power to avoid conflict. [34] Deterrence is a strategy to use threats or limited force to dissuade an actor from escalating conflict, [ 35 ] typically because the prospective attacker believes that the probability of success is low and the costs ...

  5. Howey: Allies, enemies and appeasement - AOL

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    There is a term for this type of backstabbing an ally: appeasement. The West tried that strategy before World War II, and the results were catastrophic. Brian Howey is senior writer and columnist ...

  6. Lesson of Munich - Wikipedia

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    "Munich and appeasement", in the words of scholars Frederik Logevall and Kenneth Osgood, "have become among the dirtiest words in American politics, synonymous with naivete and weakness, and signifying a craven willingness to barter away the nation's vital interests for empty promises."

  7. Votebank - Wikipedia

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    Votebank politics is the practice of creating and maintaining votebanks through divisive policies. As it encourages voting on the basis of self-interest of certain groups, often against their better judgement, it is considered harmful to the principles of representative democracy . [ 1 ]

  8. Realpolitik - Wikipedia

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    Realpolitik (/ r eɪ ˈ ɑː l p ɒ l ɪ ˌ t iː k / ray-AHL-po-lih-teek German: [ʁeˈaːlpoliˌtiːk] ⓘ; from German real 'realistic, practical, actual' and Politik 'politics') is the approach of conducting diplomatic or political policies based primarily on considerations of given circumstances and factors, rather than strictly following ideological, moral, or ethical premises.

  9. What is a Conservative? Understanding how the term works in ...

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    To be fair, all political persuasions define themselves, in part, by what they are against. But it's especially true of conservatism, whose very name signals commitment to conserving something ...