Mr Harper and Mr Ignatieff both seem to have given up on making an increasingly rancorous and unproductive parliament work, and have turned to brinkmanship.
Of course, there's an argument for diplomatic brinkmanship.
This gave the initiative to the Republicans, who now say, plausibly, that without their brinkmanship there would still have been no start on bringing the debt under control.
Third, America's politicians are, once again, threatening to wreck the recovery with irresponsible fiscal brinkmanship.
Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir is an expert at the art of brinkmanship and may push negotiations to the last possible moment to win concessions about sharing oil wealth, for example.
It has also turned Niger into a bellwether for those who fear that the struggle to secure the continent's resources risks re-creating the ruinous brinkmanship of the cold war.
This is a season of dangerous brinkmanship in America.
The latest round of budget brinkmanship — the third in six months — underscored the depths of congressional dysfunction.
As today's Wall Street Journal article notes, late - state negotiations often full of brinkmanship.
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