political tensions
State power struggles
Political tensions are strained relations between governments, parties, or factions arising from competing interests, ideologies, or grievances.
The phrase suggests conflict that hasn't erupted into open confrontation but remains unresolved and potentially volatile: Political tensions between the two countries escalated after the trade dispute.
Tensions can simmer, rise, ease, or explode.
- conflictOpposition between parties
- power struggleContest for dominance
- diplomacyNegotiation between nations
- diplomatic incidentOfficial conflict between nations
- peace talksFormal conflict-resolution discussions
sanctions · standoff · crisis · hostility · war of words · rhetoric · escalation · proxy war · summit · negotiations · deadlock · rivalry · propaganda · cold war · iron curtain · borders · nationalism · protests
- Secessionsecession, disunion, Confederate States, Confederacy, states' rights
- WWI causesassassination, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Sarajevo, militarism, alliances
political tensionsrapprochement
Reestablishment of harmonious relations
peaceful coexistence · political unity · political cooperation · diplomatic accord · amity
political tensionspolitical stability
Enduring, predictable state authority
political tensionsmutual understanding
Shared agreement between parties
political cooperation · political unity · bipartisanship · political alliance · alliance
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