Definition of "power politics" []

• 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.) (noun)

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• "The even heavier concentration in the area between Lemberg (Lvov) and the upper Prut was partly an extension of Tukhachevski's original plan, partly also a means of strengthening Russia's hand in the intensified power politics that were being played out in the Balkans."
• "They would pursue a Rockefeller Republican foreign policy, Scowcroft suggested: tough, hardheaded, sort of power politics orientedbut with a relatively low ideological content."