hawkishness
Favoring military action
Hawkishness is an aggressive or combative stance, especially regarding foreign policy or military intervention.
A hawkish politician favors confrontation over diplomacy: The administration's hawkishness on Iran worried allies.
In financial contexts, hawkishness describes central bank policy favoring higher interest rates to control inflation: The Fed's hawkishness spooked markets.
Warlike aggression
- bellicosityInclination toward hostility
- combativenessInclination toward conflict
- hostilityAntagonistic disposition toward others
- pugnacityInclination to quarrel
truculence · antagonism · confrontation · militancy · warmongering · aggressiveness · ferocity · fierceness
Bellicose extreme patriotism
- patriotismDevotion to one's homeland
- nationalismDevotion to one's country
- chauvinismMilitant devotion to group
- neoconservatismHawkish pro-democracy interventionist ideology
militarism · expansionism · imperialism · exceptionalism · supremacy · protectionism · sovereignty · flag-waving
Punitive international restrictions
- nation-buildingConstructing governmental institutions
- occupationOne's regular paid work
- unilateralismActing without international cooperation
- coalitionTemporary alliance for action
escalation · deterrence · containment · armament · geopolitics
Resistance to deformation
- decisivenessAbility to choose firmly
- boldnessFearless readiness to act
- forcefulnessPowerful assertive quality
- resolveFirmness of purpose
determination · toughness · hard-line · uncompromising · intransigence · strong-willed · unyielding · steadfastness
belligerence
Warlike aggression
- bellicosityInclination toward hostility
- combativenessInclination toward conflict
- hostilityAntagonistic disposition toward others
pugnacity · truculence · antagonism · confrontation · militancy · warmongering · aggressiveness · ferocity · fierceness · saber-rattling
jingoism
Bellicose extreme patriotism
- patriotismDevotion to one's homeland
- nationalismDevotion to one's country
- chauvinismMilitant devotion to group
neoconservatism · militarism · expansionism · imperialism · exceptionalism · supremacy · protectionism · sovereignty · flag-waving
sanctions
Punitive international restrictions
- nation-buildingConstructing governmental institutions
- occupationOne's regular paid work
- unilateralismActing without international cooperation
coalition · escalation · deterrence · containment · armament · geopolitics
firmness
Resistance to deformation
- decisivenessAbility to choose firmly
- boldnessFearless readiness to act
- forcefulnessPowerful assertive quality
resolve · determination · toughness · hard-line · uncompromising · intransigence · strong-willed · unyielding · steadfastness · insistence
- hostilityanimosity, hostility, antagonism, belligerence, malice
- warmongeringwarmongering, warmongers, jingoism, saber-rattling, belligerence
- political traitspartisanship, bipartisanship, centrism, conservatism, liberalism
- intimidationthreats, threatening, menacing, intimidate, bullying
- diplomacyembassy, ambassador, ambassadors, treaty, treaties
- geopoliticsbalance of power, bipolarity, bloc, blocs, brinkmanship
hawkishnessdovishness
Preference for peace
pacifism · peacemongering · doves · non-interventionism · appeasement
hawk, hawks, hawked, hawker, hawking, hawkish, hawklike, hawk-eyed, hawkeyed