gunboat diplomacy

gunboat diplomacy

Diplomacy that uses the threat of military action as a way to ensure the desired outcome. If that country's president continues to defy the terms of the treaty, we'll have to resort to gunboat diplomacy.
See also: diplomacy, gunboat
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • diplomacy
  • nothing for it
  • there's nothing (else) for it (but to do something)
  • there's nothing for it
  • there's only one thing for it
  • under control
  • a stepping stone
  • (one's) cake is dough
  • be close to the mark
  • be close to/near the mark
References in periodicals archive
While the Navy may carry some historical baggage as a practitioner of gunboat diplomacy, the Africa Partnership Station projects a more benign image to potential allies, partners, and even adversaries.
Requisite "vaccinations" against Bush's patriotic replay of gunboat diplomacy are readily at hand for those with the will to clear vision: in The Nation's publication of a 1920 N.A.A.C.P.
The post No megaphone gunboat diplomacy here appeared first on Cyprus Mail .
Yudhoyono had spoken out against "gunboat diplomacy" in the South China Sea at the recent Asean summit.
"Instead, Turkey has been pursuing 'gunboat diplomacy' with oft-repeated display of its military strength around Cyprus.
"None of the countries involved can afford to have their economic fortunes sunk by gunboat diplomacy," Baroudi said on the sidelines of the event.
Lord Palmerston, 19th-century foreign secretary, is remembered for pioneering what we call "gunboat diplomacy".
"This logic of the absurd, this gunboat diplomacy must end by Turkey if it wants to be a modern state which wants to join the EU," Christofias said.
Let me stress - we are not indulging in gunboat diplomacy here, no one is issuing ultimatums.
On his part, it's brinkmanship and gunboat diplomacy both at the same time.
lThe Jockey Club's gunboat diplomacy appears to have brought peace over OJOCS, the overnight jockeys' service.
While the pieties of the Weinberger speech should not give anyone a sense of security, as a whole it does express the military's traditional suspicion of gunboat diplomacy and its contemporary equivalents.
"They should not use gunboat diplomacy," he said in a swipe at both Vietnam and China.
The brasshats and their Tory friends are still obsessed with the idea of gunboat diplomacy. We rained bombs on Libya to oust the Gaddafi regime, and left behind a murderous chaos where westerners are not safe.
From the Barbary wars (fought against the Barbary States, which included parts of modern Libya) to gunboat diplomacy in Asia to the many military interventions over the last few decades (Grenada, Lebanon, Somalia, the no-fly zone over Iraq, Bosnia, Kosovo), the United States has often tried to find ways to use its military and yet not engage in all-out war.