It has been argued that, during the Balkan wars, the peace efforts of Douglas Hurd and Lord Owen almost amounted to appeasement of the Bosnian Serbs' regime.
Robert Gates, the defence secretary, who served in the post under Bush and had previously been an advocate for the Poland and Czech deployment, denied that the move amounted to appeasement of Russia.
Spain's departing prime minister, José María Aznar, a staunch supporters of the Iraq war, said on national television on Monday that his successor's promise to bring home the 1,300 Spanish troops after the Madrid bombings amounted to appeasement of terrorism.
Speaking to the enemy is an ordinary part of diplomacy and does not on its own amount to appeasement.
Talking to Pakistan, the nationalists say, would amount to appeasement.
But by itself, engaging in negotiations does not amount to appeasement.
I am wary, though, of anything that amounts to appeasement.
Regardless of how Trump expresses his positions, his fear-mongering about Muslims and "the other" amounts to a policy of appeasement toward terrorists, who crave notoriety.
Former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt declared in a speech last week that President Obama's failure to mount a persuasive counterattack to the Republicans' "radical" assault on the country's environmental safeguards amounts to a "form of appeasement".
Far from amounting to a policy of appeasement, the offer of such a guarantee would place Putin, now revelling in the west's combination of bombast and the threat of limited sanctions, on the back foot.
