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No country can rule out unilateral action in cases that involve its very survival.
President Bush's military action in Afghanistan was largely unilateral, but was carried out against a backdrop of support from NATO allies and UN resolutions.
Even when survival is not at stake, unilateral tactics sometimes induce others to make compromises that advance multilateral interests.
During the Reagan Administration, trade legislation that threatened unilateral sanctions if others did not negotiate helped create the conditions that prodded other countries to move forward with the creation of the World Trade Organization and its dispute settlements mechanism.
Even then America's intervention was not unilateral, but taken with the strong support of NATO allies.
Not only does this comport with the preferences of the American public - polls show that two-thirds of Americans prefer multilateral actions to unilateral ones - but it has practical implications as well.
Finally, in choosing between multilateral and unilateral tactics, Americans must consider the effects of the decision on its soft power, which can be destroyed by excessive unilateralism and arrogance.
In balancing whether to use multilateral or unilateral tactics, or to adhere or refuse to go along with particular multilateral initiatives, any country must consider how to explain its actions to others and what the effects will be on its soft power.
If the US first makes an effort to consult others and try a multilateral approach, its occasional unilateral tactics are more likely to be forgiven.
In such cases, the likelihood of failure increases, because of the intrinsically multilateral nature of transnational issues in a global age, and the costly effects on US soft power that unaccepted unilateral actions may impose.
And if international agreement is impossible, they should support unilateral domestic action.
He alone seemed to incarnate the combination of reassuring strength and vision to carry the majority of Israelis behind him in a process of unilateral disengagement.
Some of the most important responses must be national and unilateral, focused on hygiene, redundancy, and resilience.
There is, alas, still only one settlement possible, based on true compromise, not unilateral imposition.
Though Abe visited the shrine only once – in December 2013 – he felt compelled to do so in response to China’s unilateral declaration of an air-defense identification zone, covering territories that it claims but does not control.
A unilateral military strike would carry potentially dire consequences.
The Hour of HamasIsrael’s unilateral withdrawal from all 21 Gaza settlements and four in the West Bank has created a new reality for Palestinians.
If the US fails in this, while acting diplomatically and transparently (without a unilateral attack), Russia and China would find themselves globally isolated on this important issue.
To suggest it as an opening move could damage European security and jeopardize transatlantic cohesion, so the message has to be “no” to unilateral withdrawal, but “yes” to including these weapons in future arms-control negotiations.
If American hegemony, which truly exists today, is to be transitional – ie, if it is to end in a benign fashion and not by a sudden displacement producing anarchy, nor by an unilateral American desertion from the global scene, which would also produce anarchy – fundamental systemic changes must take places in the process of this hegemony's evolution.
Given Trump’s belief that international negotiations are just a forum for making unilateral demands, how could Mnuchin – who, like his boss, lacks government experience – persuade other countries that adherence to common rules and norms, such as open trade, is in everyone’s interest?
To be sure, unilateral US measures are indefensible under global trading rules.
However, America's unilateral options are limited.
We have arrived at this point precisely because both Russia and the West have spent over a decade seeking unilateral advantages and eschewing negotiated compromises.
Russia’s unilateral annexation of Crimea and support for separatists in eastern Ukraine have ruptured its relations with the West, and Putin has intentionally recreated a Cold War atmosphere by touting Russia’s “conservative values” as an ideological counterweight to the American-led liberal world order.
The voices of protectionism and nationalism are gaining strength, and governments are increasingly pursuing policy goals through unilateral or ad hoc measures, rather than by working together.
If other countries emulated the example set by China and the US by establishing unilateral claims to international airspace, a dangerous situation would result.
While I believe that the occupation, rather than the reaction to it, is the main cause of our conflict, the unilateral tahdia (“declared calm”) decision by Palestinian militant groups has reduced anti-Israeli attacks mightily, which shows that Palestinians also realize the limits of their military actions.
Sharon and you might have felt that unilateral action was needed in Gaza, but the withdrawal from Gaza could have produced many more benefits for both sides had it been done bilaterally.
Its thinking goes beyond the dominant, unilateral paradigm of its predecessor and includes a defense of international law.
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