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Finlandization
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Finlandization

Political term for the tendency of a small state to shape its foreign policy so as to accommodate a much more powerful neighbour, taken from the example of Finland's former foreign policy with respect to the USSR.

The term was coined by the Austrian politician Karl Gruber 1953.



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