obstinacy, recalcitrance, stubbornness, obduracy, obstructionism, inaction, intransigency, pusillanimity, obstinance, inflexibility, belligerence, vacillation, duplicity, spinelessness, intractability, unwillingness, arrogance, stonewalling, prevarication, insistence, appeasement, acquiescence, brinkmanship, incompetence, indifference, refusal, perfidy, cowardice, cravenness, shortsightedness, timidity, ingratitude, disunity, posturing, insincerity, impasse, impatience, indecision, hypocrisy, subservience, obtuseness, hostility, reticence, irresponsibility, callousness, ineffectuality, unilateralism, fecklessness, pigheadedness, antagonism, unfeasibility, stupidity, ineptness, obfuscation, procrastination, disingenuousness, capitulation, apathy, stalemate, indecisiveness, saber rattling, ineptitude, constructiveness, opportunism, distrust, demagoguery, evasiveness, egotism, irrationality, bellicosity, officialdom, hubris, meddling, realpolitik, untrustworthiness, mistrust, insensitivity, pragmatism, fractiousness, temporizing, dissembling, belligerency, reluctance, doublespeak, gutlessness, infighting, servility, tactlessness, ignorance, inertia, acrimony, profligacy, inefficiency, latent hostility, adventurism, bungling, rhetoric, irredentism, noncooperation, mendacity, churlishness, haughtiness, emissaries, hegemony, backwardness, domination, delegates, traditionalism, ascendancy, extremism, isolationism, prestige, rapprochement, stranglehold, exceptionalism

bullheadedness, self-will