Containment

A policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power or ideology or to force it to negotiate peacefully

Type of

Policy

Derivation

Contain

Examples

Containment of communist expansion was a central principle of United States' foreign policy from 1947 to the 1975

(physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor

In category

Natural philosophy

Physics

Type of

System

The act of containing; keeping something from spreading

Type of

Restraint

Has types

Ring containment

Derivation

Contain

Examples

The containment of the AIDS epidemic

The containment of the rebellion