great-power politics

基本解释

when it comes to the use of force, Americans continue to inhabit the 19th-century world of great-power politics whereas Europeans believe in diplomacy and treaties.
而在歐洲國家已經認可通過外交手段和條約解決國際問題的今天，美國的思維仍然停畱在19世界強權政治橫行的時代。
From Ye Liqing times, politics of "party of political power", as a peculiar political phenomenon in Russia, had great influence on Russian politics of the system of multi-party.
自葉利欽時代起“政權黨”政治就作爲俄羅斯特有的政治現象，對俄多黨制政治産生著非常重要的影響。
The appeal of more expansive trade with Syria and Iraq, of being lionised in the Arab streets for bad-mouthing Israel and of playing great-power energy politics with Russia will quickly fade.
擴大敘利亞和伊朗的貿易，在阿拉伯地區獲取有利位置懲治惡毒的以色列，或是和俄羅斯玩能源政治。這些提議一個個虎頭蛇尾。

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