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==Origin==
[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] ''appesen'', from Anglo-French ''apeser'', ''apaiser'', from a- (from ''Latin'' ''ad''-) + ''pais'' [[peace]]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th Century]
==Definitions==
*1: to bring to a state of [[peace]] or [[quiet]] : calm
*2: to cause to subside : allay <appeased my [[hunger]]>
*3: pacify, [[conciliate]]; especially : to buy off (an [[aggressor]]) by [[concessions]] usually at the [[sacrifice]] of [[principles]]
==Description==
'''Appeasement''' is a [[diplomatic]] [[policy]] aimed at avoiding war by making concessions to an aggressor. Historian [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Kennedy Paul Kennedy] defines it as "the policy of settling international quarrels by admitting and [[satisfying]] grievances through rational [[negotiation]] and [[compromise]], thereby avoiding the resort to an armed [[conflict]] which would be expensive, bloody, and possibly dangerous." Kennedy's definition has been widely cited by scholars. Appeasement was used by European democracies in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
1930's 1930s] who wished to avoid war with the [[dictatorships]] of Germany and Italy, bearing in mind the horrors of [[World War I]].
The term is most often applied to the foreign policy of the British Prime Minister [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Chamberlain Neville Chamberlain] towards [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany Nazi Germany] between 1937 and 1939. His policies of avoiding war with Germany have been the subject of intense [[debate]] for seventy years among [[academics]], politicians and [[diplomats]]. The historians' assessments have ranged from [[condemnation]] for allowing [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler Adolf Hitler]'s Germany to grow too strong, to the [[judgement]] that he had no alternative and acted in Britain's best interests. At the time, these concessions were widely seen as positive, and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Pact Munich Pact] concluded on 30 September 1938 among Germany, Britain, France and Italy prompted Chamberlain to announce that he had secured "peace for our time".
The word "appeasement" has been used as a synonym for [[weakness]] and even [[cowardice]] since the late 1930s, and it is still used in that sense to denounce [[policies]] and [[behaviors]] that conflict with firm, often armed, [[action]] to [[violent]] threats in international relations.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeasement]
[[Category: History]]
[[Category: Politics]]
[[Category: Political Science]]
==Origin==
[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] ''appesen'', from Anglo-French ''apeser'', ''apaiser'', from a- (from ''Latin'' ''ad''-) + ''pais'' [[peace]]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th Century]
==Definitions==
*1: to bring to a state of [[peace]] or [[quiet]] : calm
*2: to cause to subside : allay <appeased my [[hunger]]>
*3: pacify, [[conciliate]]; especially : to buy off (an [[aggressor]]) by [[concessions]] usually at the [[sacrifice]] of [[principles]]
==Description==
'''Appeasement''' is a [[diplomatic]] [[policy]] aimed at avoiding war by making concessions to an aggressor. Historian [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Kennedy Paul Kennedy] defines it as "the policy of settling international quarrels by admitting and [[satisfying]] grievances through rational [[negotiation]] and [[compromise]], thereby avoiding the resort to an armed [[conflict]] which would be expensive, bloody, and possibly dangerous." Kennedy's definition has been widely cited by scholars. Appeasement was used by European democracies in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
1930's 1930s] who wished to avoid war with the [[dictatorships]] of Germany and Italy, bearing in mind the horrors of [[World War I]].
The term is most often applied to the foreign policy of the British Prime Minister [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Chamberlain Neville Chamberlain] towards [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany Nazi Germany] between 1937 and 1939. His policies of avoiding war with Germany have been the subject of intense [[debate]] for seventy years among [[academics]], politicians and [[diplomats]]. The historians' assessments have ranged from [[condemnation]] for allowing [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler Adolf Hitler]'s Germany to grow too strong, to the [[judgement]] that he had no alternative and acted in Britain's best interests. At the time, these concessions were widely seen as positive, and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Pact Munich Pact] concluded on 30 September 1938 among Germany, Britain, France and Italy prompted Chamberlain to announce that he had secured "peace for our time".
The word "appeasement" has been used as a synonym for [[weakness]] and even [[cowardice]] since the late 1930s, and it is still used in that sense to denounce [[policies]] and [[behaviors]] that conflict with firm, often armed, [[action]] to [[violent]] threats in international relations.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeasement]
[[Category: History]]
[[Category: Politics]]
[[Category: Political Science]]