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Reform the UN Security CouncilHuman progress can be measured by the fact that we are living in a century where unilateral military operations based on power alone are intolerable.
Supported by an enraged and desperate public, this new alliance set out to achieve two goals: 1) to displace the Old Guard of the PLO, and 2) to use violence to end Israel's 35-year-old occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, using Israel's unilateral withdrawal from South Lebanon as a model.
A unilateral blanket bailout would stress the banking union, stretch public finances, and leave the Italian banking system with its structural weakness.
The Bush administration proclaimed a national security policy that insists that America provides the only sustainable model for national success, and asserted its right to engage in unilateral, preemptive military strikes.
Rather than persist in his undiplomatic and unilateral crusades, Trump would be wise to treat the EU as the friend it has always been to his country, and to grasp the promise of Europe’s collaborative approach to collective defense.
After Argentina’s unilateral default in 2001, many investors saw more clearly the need to allow explicitly for less drastic alternatives ahead of time, and so incorporated so-called “collective action clauses” into debt contracts.
Meanwhile, the UK benefits from defense cooperation with the EU, while retaining the right to unilateral military deployments.
As France’s recent actions demonstrate, intervention nowadays requires nothing more than a unilateral decree of humanitarian or counter-terrorism objectives, an atmosphere of urgency, and an ambiguous link to ongoing United Nations deliberations.
But Europe’s stability and commitment to economic growth across the continent require that these interests be satisfied without economic pressure or unilateral intervention.
Facing continuing battles with Congress, mid-term elections next year, and increasing instability in the Middle East (including the threat of unilateral Israeli action against Iran’s nuclear facilities), Obama clearly believes that now is not the time to push for a peace agreement, because it is unlikely to succeed.
The renminbi’s unilateral revaluation will end, accompanied by the gradual easing of external liquidity pressure.
Hamas leaders claim that they were not consulted before the announcement, and they resent Abbas’s unilateral decision, calling it a direct violation of an agreement between Hamas and Abbas’s Fatah party that led to the current ceasefire with Israel.
Here, the biggest threat lies in China’s unilateral attempts to alter the regional status quo.
Israel has denounced the Palestinian strategy as a unilateral initiative, and has threatened the Palestinians with severe reprisals.
This trend accelerated as the current Bush administration attempted to construct unilateral global hegemony out of the “War on Terror,” which provoked growing disquiet in “Old Europe.”
Persuading it to halt further unilateral appropriation of shared waters has thus become pivotal to Asian peace and stability.
But, in today’s unilateral world, other central banks would soon respond by injecting liquidity, prompting the Bank of Japan to act again.
Given this history, it is no surprise that the first reaction of Latin American governments to today’s food crisis was unilateral.
The only way to begin to turn this tide is for the US to reverse its primarily unilateral approach to the region's problems.
To redress this state of affairs, the economist Vladimir Masch suggests that the US should pursue a plan of “compensated free trade” (CFT), which essentially amounts to a unilateral activation of the scarce-currency clause.
The cumulative effect, Kissinger continued, “drives American foreign policy toward unilateral and bullying conduct.
Instead, the G-20 is behaving like a debating society, with the cooperative approach that it fostered at the outset of the crisis devolving into an array of often-heedless unilateral actions by its members.
The alternative will be unilateral measures aimed at achieving the same goals, but leading to outcomes that leave everyone worse off.
In this multipolar context, unilateral action will increasingly fail to achieve its objectives.
The US has been more successful in pressuring Australia, the European Union, Japan, and other US allies to strengthen unilateral sanctions on the North.
Unfortunately, given Bush’s repeated assertions – in defiance of America’s constitutional tradition of checks and balances – that his office endows him with unilateral powers to violate rights, he appears to be untroubled by that prospect.
Everything must be done, even a unilateral military strike, to prevent or at least delay Iran’s acquisition of such a weapon.
A unilateral sanctions regime will most probably lead Iran to restart its nuclear program, implying renewed hostility with the West.
In the long run, piecemeal arrangements with companies – or even for specific products – and unilateral action against countries are no substitute for international principles, rules, and institutions.
Indeed, there are serious doubts that unilateral withdrawals by NATO would encourage Russian President Vladimir Putin to review his country’s deepening reliance on nuclear deterrence.
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