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Sharon’s solution was unilateral withdrawal and the idea that Israel would decide on its own interim boundaries with a view to what it would claim if there was ever a negotiated agreement.
But Kim will not trust unilateral US guarantees.
By this logic, international trade should be regulated not by rules and institutions, but through unilateral protectionist measures and arm-twisting.
It can lead in Syria as well, if the US will set aside its unilateral demand for regime change and work with the rest of the Council, including China and Russia, on a common approach.
Indeed, after many months of increasingly forceful military moves – most notably, the unilateral declaration of an air-defense identification zone covering a large swath of the South China Sea, including disputed territories – China’s ties with Japan reached an all-time low.
There is no domestic or international appetite for another US military adventure – NATO, the G-20, the Europeans, Russia, China, and 60% of Americans oppose a unilateral US military strike.
Tenth, any US unilateral military strike against Syria would ratchet up tensions between the US and Russia.
Over the past two decades, unilateral actions in disregard of the UN Security Council’s primary responsibility in matters of war and peace have led to greater uncertainty and instability.
In the absence of such coordination, the unilateral approaches now in place could generate further distortions.
A unilateral default, one hopes, will not be necessary.
It is becoming increasingly clear that if Greece proceeds to unilateral action – whether by repealing unpopular austerity laws or renouncing the loan agreement itself – the eurozone will suspend disbursement of the loan.
Some governments have even taken unilateral measures contrary to EU decisions.
Let us be clear: The view driving these movements – that the EU is at the root of Europe’s myriad problems, from economic hardship to the refugee crisis, and that withdrawal (or unilateral action) is the only way to resolve them – is patently false.
The rationale for integration is that collective action is far more effective than unilateral efforts.
Even if the UK disapproved of the arrangement, it could not stop Scotland from adopting it – much as the European Union deplores but cannot stop Montenegro’s unilateral use of the euro.
In this context, policymakers may reach for the low-hanging fruit of competitive devaluations, leading to a series of unilateral policy measures and retributive responses.
To win, Syriza must either mislead its voters about its options, or insist that it will renegotiate the repayment conditions imposed on Greece by the so-called Troika (the European Commission, the ECB, and the International Monetary Fund), all while pursuing unilateral action should renegotiation fail.
Understanding that the euro is part of a much larger process of economic and political integration also helps to see why unilateral experiments with various versions of the same idea, such as that of Argentina and its currency board, have had a much different fate.
This would strengthen the government’s resolve to strike deals on other controversial issues – precisely the opposite of the likely effect of Trump’s unilateral withdrawal from the JCPOA.
We feel responsible, on a global level, for the environment, which is why we disagree with unilateral decisions by individual nations when such decisions ignore the needs of the rest of the world.
In the former case, Obama personally managed a unilateral use of force, which involved a raid on Pakistani territory.
Trump, like Bush, rejects negotiations, for fear of appearing weak, in favor of unilateral demands backed by the threat or reality of force.
Moreover, the US and its allies understand that failure to take serious action might prompt Israel to launch its own unilateral military offensive.
Moon is well positioned to capitalize on Trump’s self-inflicted wounds – which have included threats of unilateral military action, protectionist mantras, and the abandonment of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement.
But, today, the United States is rejecting trade openness, imposing unilateral tariffs and other barriers, and renegotiating trade deals on worse terms.
Any unilateral measures against North Korea by individual countries must be executed within the broader framework of the new resolution.
Yet global cooperation means the willingness to reach agreements with other countries, not simply to make unilateral demands of them.
Without global-governance institutions and legal frameworks to guide international cooperation, most countries must resort to unilateral management of their own migration flows.
Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 was the first unilateral land grab in Europe since 1945.
Even if Israel’s current war against Gaza is a just war – which is suggested by its attempts at limited and “measured” retaliation after eight years of Hamas rockets followed its unilateral retreat from Gaza – it is therefore a very dirty war, too.
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