appeasement policy
Concession-based diplomacy approach
Appeasement policy refers to a diplomatic strategy of making concessions to an aggressive power to avoid conflict.
The term is most associated with Britain's approach to Nazi Germany in the 1930s, particularly Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's acceptance of Hitler's territorial demands at Munich in 1938.
The policy's spectacular failure—Germany invaded Poland within a year—made appeasement a byword for weakness and naïve diplomacy.
Politicians now invoke it to argue against any perceived capitulation: Critics called the deal an appeasement policy toward dictators.
- Munich Agreement1938 Czechoslovakia partition treaty
- negotiationDiscussion seeking mutual accord
- concessionYielding a point
- backing downWithdrawing from a stance
- realismAccepting things as they are
Neville Chamberlain · geopolitics · pacification · idealism · fear · trust-building · diplomatic failure · diplomacy · risk aversion · moral relativism · World War II · power dynamics · Sudetenland · Nazi Germany · groupthink · compromise · pragmatism · alliances
appeasement policydeterrence
Prevention via threatened consequences
containment · confrontation · resistance · hard line · military intervention
appeasement policybelligerence
Warlike aggression
militarism · war footing · intransigence · zero tolerance · firmness
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