brinkmanship (n.)

• adventurousness
• appeasement
• audaciousness
• audacity
• boldness
• coexistence
• colonialism
• compromise
• containment
• daredevilry
• daredeviltry
• daring
• detente
• deterrence
• diplomacy
• expansionism
• foolhardiness
• forwardness
• imperialism
• internationalism
• isolationism
• militarism
• nationalism
• neocolonialism
• neutralism
• nonresistance
• preparedness
• presumption
• presumptuousness