brinkmanship

英 ['br??km?n??p] 美['br??km?n'??p]

brinkmanship (n.): also brinksmanship, with parasitic -s- and construction based on salesmanship, sportsmanship, etc.; from brink (the image of the brink of war dates to at least 1840).

Associated with the policies advocated by John Foster Dulles (1888-1959), U.S. Secretary of State 1953-1959. The word springs from Dulles' philosophy as outlined in a magazine interview [with Time-Life Washington bureau chief James Shepley] early 1956:
The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you cannot master it, you inevitably get into war. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.
The quote was widely criticized by the Eisenhower Administration's opponents, and the first attested use of brinkmanship seems to have been in such a context, a few weeks after the magazine appeared, by Democratic presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson criticizing Dulles for "boasting of his brinkmanship, ... the art of bringing us to the edge of the nuclear abyss."

1. There is a lot of political brinkmanship involved in this latest development.: 最新的進展涉及許多政治冒險政策的推行。

2. There is no gainsaying the fact that brinkmanship is a dangerous game.: 不可能否認這樣的事實:即戰(zhàn)爭的邊緣政策是一種危險的游戲.

3. The potential breakthrough comes at a moment of brinkmanship by the North.: 在北韓采取邊緣外交政策的同時,這個問題有可能取得突破.

4. North Korean Leader Chooses Successor Amid Signs of More Brinkmanship.: 朝鮮領導人在更加奉行邊緣政策的狀態(tài)中選擇了接班人.

5. As today's Wall Street Journal article notes, late - state negotiations often full of brinkmanship.: 正如今天《華爾街日報》文章所指出的, 談判的最后階段總是充滿著邊緣策略,最后反而會絕處逢生.

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