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.
而在欧洲国家已经认可通过外交手段和条约解决国际问题的今天，美国的思维仍然停留在19世界强权政治横行的时代。
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.
自叶利钦时代起“政权党”政治就作为俄罗斯特有的政治现象，对俄多党制政治产生着非常重要的影响。
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.
扩大叙利亚和伊朗的贸易，在阿拉伯地区获取有利位置惩治恶毒的以色列，或是和俄罗斯玩能源政治。这些提议一个个虎头蛇尾。

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