During the Cold War at the time of the promotion of their mass retaliation strategy, Dulles and Eisenhower secretly began to use the __________ to influence world politics.

Brinkmanship is the term associated with President Eisenhower and secretory of state Dulles. It means to achieve an advantageous outcome by pushing events to the brink of active conflict. It is used in foreign policy, international politics and involves threats of nuclear weapons and high stake legal actions.

The main aim in this manoeuvre is to force the opponent to back down and make concessions. It was use by president Eisenhower fro 1953 to 1956 to discourage the aggression by Soviet Union. Eisenhower also started to use the New Look policy to balance nation's cold war militry commitments with financial resources.