0 the activity, especially in politics, of trying to get what you want by saying that if you do not get it, you will do something dangerous:
1 the activity, especially in politics, of trying to get what you want by saying that if you do not get it, you will do something that could be harmful or dangerous:
Scholars have examined the brinkmanship between intellectuals and the regime: how intellectuals reacted to the regime's propaganda and the regime dealt with the intellectuals' reaction.
This form of brinkmanship can lead to stability and peace, but with the threat of a lethal breakdown always looming over it.
Both later denied that the crisis spiralled to the level of nuclear brinkmanship.
Notwithstanding these alternations, both authors partake in the game of brinkmanship with the otherness of the old.
Political brinkmanship there was, but we should remember that the interdiction was also intended to stimulate private, in the absence of public, worship.
The longer coalitions remain in place, the more stable they become, and the less likely that junior partners will engage in brinkmanship.
But it is a most precarious position, this steadily sailing into the teeth of the wind, this economic "brinkmanship" that we are going in for.
In these events there were two essays, and we must not forget that there were two, in "brinkmanship".
