The process by which a smaller or less powerful sovereignstate comes to abide by a more powerful neighbor's foreign policy rules, while retaining its independence.
Origin
Finland + -ization, translating German Finnlandisierung, referring to the political climate in Finland during the cold war in the view of a 1960s and 1970s West-German debate.
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