| For all the occasional bouts of moderate rhetoric, pre-emptive strikes and gunboat diplomacy form the essence of this thinking. |
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| But the increased political sensitivities of the international community in the nuclear age seemed to make gunboat diplomacy quite unacceptable. |
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| Stand by for the world's sole superpower engaging in the 21st Century version of gunboat diplomacy. |
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| It also conjures up memories of the gunboat diplomacy that first pushed the United States onto the world stage a century ago. |
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| In an ironic reversal, the greatest colonial power becomes the helpless victim of Martian gunboat diplomacy. |
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| The western powers have proved yet again their willingness to resort to intimidation and old-style gunboat diplomacy to achieve their ends. |
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| Far from our gunboat diplomacy of the nineteenth century, have we now become the victim rather than the aggressor in a global economic struggle? |
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| Let's stop with the gunboat diplomacy and get a little smarter here. |
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| This near intervention led one observer to note that gunboat diplomacy was clearly in line with the State Department commitment to pipelines and profits. |
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| According to Chinese reports, Taiwanese ships will join the seven carriers being assembled in this modern rerun of 19th century gunboat diplomacy. |
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| The initial French provocation, a direct takeover of Morocco in violation of recent treaties, was answered by German gunboat diplomacy to back its demand for compensation. |
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| Both Indonesia and Malaysia also saw it as a means to protect themselves from gunboat diplomacy and foreign intervention in the affairs of their fledgling nations. |
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| In 19th-century gunboat diplomacy a dictator or other mischief-maker gives tongue. |
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| They were going to sail their navy off the Grand Banks as a bit of gunboat diplomacy, to make a statement to support their claim. |
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| It is the Anglo-American armada that is reviving gunboat diplomacy in the Middle East. |
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| Indeed, there is an element of gunboat diplomacy to the talk of military action. |
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| Warner won the agreement after an unusual bit of cinematic gunboat diplomacy. |
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| Japan took for model the Prussian army and the British navy applying to its profit the gunboat diplomacy both in China and in Russia. |
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| Then there is the United States war on Iraq, the 21st Century version of 19th Century gunboat diplomacy which threatens to usher in a new era in international relations. |
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| I am certainly not advocating gunboat diplomacy. |
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| In 1853 US Commodore Matthew Perry doing a gunboat diplomacy required the opening of Japan for trade and the giving of the principle of the most favoured nation. |
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| Puerto Rico is a political anachronism, a throwback to the days of gunboat diplomacy and the handlebar mustache. |
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| Fortunately, the era of gunboat diplomacy in relation to sovereign debts is over, so peaceful settlements have indeed become the order of the day. |
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| In an example of gunboat diplomacy, the Americans sent then the USS Cyane and demanded 24,000 dollars in damages, an apology and a pledge of good behavior in the future. |
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| The British and French, who had sought to make policy by reviving 19th century gunboat diplomacy, had temporarily lost their credentials for world statesmanship. |
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| James Cable, the author of Gunboat Diplomacy, has created an excellent case study of naval presence and suasion during the era of appeasement. |
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| Gunboat diplomacy is the use of conspicuous displays of military strength as a means of intimidation in order to influence others. |
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