proxy fight

(noun)

a conflict where two powers use third parties as a supplement to, or a substitute for fighting each other directly

Related Terms

Examples of proxy fight in the following topics:

  • Bleeding Kansas

    • As such, Bleeding Kansas was a proxy war between Northerners and Southerners over the issue of slavery in the United States.
    • In a matter of months, armed guerrillas were fighting each other on the Missouri-Kansas border, and the territory was faced with a near-anarchic situation.

  • The John F. Kennedy Administration

    • He called upon the nations of the world to join together and fight what he called the "common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself."
    • Kennedy's foreign policy was dominated by American confrontations with the Soviet Union, manifested by proxy wars in the early stage of the Cold War and coming to the brink of nuclear war with the Cuban Missile Crisis.

  • Problems with WACC

    • Problems arise in calculating components of WACC because differing methods and proxy values result in widely varying costs of capital.
    • In calculating each component, we are given many different options and proxy values.

  • Obama's Foreign Policy

    • All sides receive substantial support from foreign players, leading many to label the conflict a proxy war waged by the regional and world major powers.
    • He explained, "To me, being pro-Israel and pro-Jewish is part and parcel with the values that I've been fighting for since I was politically conscious and started getting involved in politics."

  • Factitious Disorders

    • Münchausen syndrome is related to Münchausen syndrome by proxy, now known as "factitious disorder imposed on another"; this refers to the abuse of another person, typically a child, in order to seek attention or sympathy for the abuser.
    • Factitious disorder imposed on another (formerly Münchausen syndrome by proxy); this diagnosis is assigned to the perpetrator, while the victim may be assigned an abuse diagnosis such as child abuse.
    • Individuals with factitious disorder might be motivated either as a patient or by proxy as a caregiver to obtain attention, nurturance, sympathy, and leniency that often accompany the "sick role" and that are seen as not obtainable any other way.
    • A parent with factitious disorder imposed on another (formerly known as Münchausen syndrome by proxy) will deliberately produce, feign, or exaggerate symptoms in their child.

  • Conclusion: Truman and the Beginning of the Cold War

    • Even though the Chinese and North Koreans were exhausted by the war and were prepared to end it by late 1952, Stalin insisted that they continue fighting, and the Armistice was approved only in July 1953, after Stalin's death.
    • However, because of the American policy of containment, the Cold War saw several "proxy wars," such as the Korean War and the Vietnam War.

  • The Cold War's Costs and Consequences

    • The costs of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States, as well as its numerous proxy wars, were extensive.
    • In addition to the loss of life by uniformed soldiers, millions died in the superpowers' proxy wars around the globe, most notably in Southeast Asia.
    • Many of the proxy wars and subsidies for local conflicts ended along with the Cold War, and the incidence of interstate, ethnic, and revolutionary wars, as well as refugee and displaced persons crises, has declined somewhat in the post-Cold War years.

  • Superpower Rivalry

    • Additionally, much of the conflict between the superpowers was fought in "proxy wars," which more often than not involved issues more complex than the standard Cold War oppositions.
    • For example, the Vietnam War was an example of a proxy war.

  • Discounted Dividend vs. Corporate Valuation

    • Consider the dividend growth rate as a proxy for the growth of earnings and by extension the stock price and capital gains.
    • Consider the company's cost of equity capital as a proxy for the investor's required total return.

  • The Fight-or-Flight Response

    • The fight-or-flight-or-freeze response is regulated by release of adrenaline or noradrenaline.
    • The fight-or-flight response (also called the acute stress response) was first described by Walter Bradford Cannon.
    • His theory states that animals react to threats with a general discharge of the sympathetic nervous system, priming the animal for fighting or fleeing.
    • However, a short boost of the immune system shortly after the fight or flight response has been activated has been described.
    • Discuss the endocrine system's role in the fight-or-flight response to stress