power politics

This downward spiral involving local power politics was obvious to the Americans in the valley.

This is power politics, I knew, and push would eventually and inevitably come to shove.

Since the end of World War II, Germans have absconded from the very idea of power politics.

For some years after that, American relations with Israeli governments were dominated by power politics.

The ICC is primarily a legal institution, but it is not sealed off to the dynamics of international power politics.

All the international rivalries, the power-politics, the eternal pressures and constant crises.

I felt it was purely statesmanship, statecraft, power politics.

Their trans-ocean squabbles and power politics seemed to have settled into a pattern of a war or two per generation.

Perfectionism, no less than isolationism or imperialism or power politics, may obstruct the paths to international peace.