rapprochement, modus vivendi, entente, confrontation, amity, thaw, reconciliation, dialogue, relations, cordiality, diplomacy, brinkmanship, concord, truce, cooperation, belligerence, estrangement, compromise, peace, peace treaty, acrimony, fence mending, openness, entente cordiale, contretemps, antagonism, bonhomie, accord, conciliation, glasnost, chumminess, saber rattling, testiest, normalization, shuttle diplomacy, standoff, hostilities, reconcilation, coexistence, democratization, appeasement, animosity, tensions, enmity, reunification, bellicosity, schism, impasse, discord, relationship, adventurism, feuding, amicability, unification, overture, nonalignment, ascendance, negotiations, stalemate, peacemaking, rancor, great schism, geostrategy, fusionism, comity, symbiosis, liberalization, unity, frostiest, friendship, chilliness, spats, disagreements, ties, talks, civility, unilateralism, turnabout, contentiousness, reciprocity, rift, recalcitrance, pact, resumption, ecumenicalism, bilateralism, olive branch, ascendancy, nonaggression, finlandization, coziness, armistice, revanchism, strategic arms limitation talks, placation, unanimity, mutually beneficial, hegemony, partnership, reengagement, dustup, intransigence, democratisation, liberalisation, disarmament, modernization, pacification, subjugation, embargo, modernisation, boycott, industrialization, diem, gaullist, kmt, maoist, orleanist, peronist, reform, stalinist, taliban, angevin, apartheid, caesarian, constitutionalist, cromwellian, crusading, democracy, deregulatory, expansionary, expansionist, francoist

alleviation, easing, relief