Translation of "Domino theory" in German

This could also be expressed by referring to the domino theory or possibly the house of cards.

If you accept the domino theory, Ford could be next.

The domino theory is not a joke.

I tend to believe that we should develop a kind of democratic, positive domino theory and stabilise one country after another.

The United States replaced this clear and virtually uncontested strategic approach with a much more hazardous project by borrowing the old domino theory, popular in the communist world in the 1970s, and applying it to the export of the democratic model to the Arab-Muslim arena based on a new Iraq democratised by the US.

So Bolivia is not a premonitory crisis; nor does the hoary old “domino theory,” to which both Lyndon Johnson and Che Guevara subscribed in the case of Bolivia, seem valid or even half-way reasonable.

Derided by detractors as a new "domino theory," this view presented intervention in Iraq as similar to America's role in post-WWII Japan.

Of course, the old “domino theory” in international relations was only a crude way of emphasizing that different parts of any region are linked to each other.

Johnson, Bundy, and the others of course believed the “domino” theory, which says that one country “falling” to communism would cause others to fall.

One view – dubbed the domino theory – claims that if Greece exited, markets would immediately start wondering who is next.

Low ering cereals and oilseeds is encouraging the domino theory, in other words switching over to other crops.

We don't want to bring the classical domino theory back to life, but it seems to us that because of the ever deeper inter-national integration of the economic and stately structures on the old continent (having the project of the European Union as its formal structure) it would point out to be a self chosen blindness if we look at the borders of the areas where we live, of the national states where we struggle as a horizon that cannot be overcome.

The proof that the USSR, despite the domino theory, helped Vietnam not in order to grab Southeast Asia but to wear down its rival and “soften it” on other fronts.

The Stalinist states of the former Soviet bloc had collapsed in the most striking and least expected illustration — in reverse — of the "domino theory."

In the meantime the front appears to have hardened again, probably following a kind of domino theory, according to which the yielding of one point necessarily could lead to other allegations, which could no longer be upheld.

But analogies are not always wrong, and those that were wrong in the past could prove correct today. One of the arguments for the Vietnam War was the so-called domino theory. If South Vietnam was to fall to the Communists, other countries in South-East Asia would tumble before Communist insurgency.

The tacit foundation for this attitude is a domino theory of the kind espoused notably by American and Russian politicians during the Cold War. If the domino Afghanistan should fall, then other dominos nearer to Germany might follow suit. If this analysis were correct, it would put the finger on the greatest paradox and the greatest weakness inherent in German foreign policy.