neutralization of a small country by a superpower, using conciliation, as the former Soviet Union did in relation to Finland
Finlandization in American English
(ˌfɪnləndəˈzeiʃən)
noun
1.
the neutralization of a country in terms of its allegiance to the superpowers, in the way that the Soviet Union rendered Finland neutral and friendly without making it a satellite state or requiring that it adopt Communism
2.
such a neutral status pursued as a deliberate act of policy by a lesser power
Word origin
[1965–70; finland + -ization]This word is first recorded in the period 1965–70. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: T cell, double-book, isometric exercise, overdub, red-eye-ization is used to form nouns from verbs ending in -ize (organization). Other words that use the affix -ization include: arborization, posterization, racemization, sterilization, vaporization