peace dividend
noun
: a portion of funds made available for nondefense spending by a reduction in the defense budget (as after a war)
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In 1963, Egon Bahr, who in a few years would become the foreign-policy architect to the new Social Democratic chancellor Willy Brandt, outlined the policy of Ostpolitik, in which West Germany would seek rapprochement with the Eastern bloc and start trying to issue its own peace dividend.
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Thomas Meaney, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
There is also hope of a peace dividend in the Great Lakes region, in northeast Nigeria, and in Somalia.
—Homi Kharas, Foreign Affairs, 16 June 2015
The post–Cold War peace dividend has long since been spent.
—The Editors, National Review, 17 Oct. 2023
The days of expecting a peace dividend are gone.
—Doyle McManuswashington Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2022
Yemen peace dividend?
—Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Apr. 2021
It’s the very opposite of the Clinton-era peace dividend.
—Linda J. Bilmes, Fortune, 1 Feb. 2023
Then-Representative Howard Berman turned to the peace dividend to devise a plan that would address both air pollution and dwindling defense jobs.
—Indigo Olivier, The New Republic, 30 Jan. 2023
The economy enjoyed an era of growth, helped by the peace dividend.
—Stephen Fidler, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2022
Thomas Meaney, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
There is also hope of a peace dividend in the Great Lakes region, in northeast Nigeria, and in Somalia.
—Homi Kharas, Foreign Affairs, 16 June 2015
The post–Cold War peace dividend has long since been spent.
—The Editors, National Review, 17 Oct. 2023
The days of expecting a peace dividend are gone.
—Doyle McManuswashington Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2022
Yemen peace dividend?
—Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Apr. 2021
It’s the very opposite of the Clinton-era peace dividend.
—Linda J. Bilmes, Fortune, 1 Feb. 2023
Then-Representative Howard Berman turned to the peace dividend to devise a plan that would address both air pollution and dwindling defense jobs.
—Indigo Olivier, The New Republic, 30 Jan. 2023
The economy enjoyed an era of growth, helped by the peace dividend.
—Stephen Fidler, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2022
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