power politics

1. 1.

   diplomacy in which the nations threaten to use force in order to obtain their objectives

   Synonymsgunboat diplomacy

   Broaderdiplomacy

Questions about power politics

What does power politics mean?

power politics means "diplomacy in which the nations threaten to use force in order to obtain their objectives".

What is another word for power politics?

Close synonyms include gunboat diplomacy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is power politics a common word?

power politics is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.