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The same is true of Trump’s unilateral withdrawal from a growing number of international agreements and bodies, including the Paris climate agreement, the Iran nuclear deal, and, most recently, the United Nations Human Rights Council, after it criticized US policies towards the poor.
After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, President Bush embarked on a unilateral foreign policy.
If Greece tries such unilateral defiance, the ECB will almost certainly vote to stop its emergency funding to the Greek banking system after the troika program expires on February 28.
So the world community must resist unilateral efforts at separation because separatism today is much more dangerous than during the post-colonial era due to the twin evils of international terrorism and religious extremism.
Recovering from KosovoLONDON – Kosovo’s recent unilateral declaration of independence brought back memories.
As then-UN Secretary General Kofi Annan rightly argued, this opened the door to the proliferation of unilateral, lawless use of force.
Given China’s own history of vulnerability to foreign intervention, unilateral US efforts to maintain overwhelming offensive superiority would only trigger an increasingly destabilizing arms race.
The weakening of the Iran-Syria-Hezbollah axis would directly benefit Israel, which has stepped up its not-so-veiled threats to launch a unilateral military strike against Iran’s nuclear installations.
Only in this way could they win the backing of the various sectors of Syrian opposition – suspicious of the intentions behind unilateral support – and bring their positions closer to those of Syria’s minorities, which cannot be left out of this process.
The unilateral and persistent way in which President Kim and his associates pursued their opening to the North caused enormous divisiveness on an issue over which the country was usually very united.
This shift is hardly surprising, given the increasing number of analyses that demonstrate that current – unilateral – climate policies will have virtually no impact on the rise in global temperature.
But the buyback can succeed only if the market perceives it as the last chance before a unilateral debt restructuring.
With the world's focus on the debate over Iraq, the war on terror, and the Bush administration's doctrine of unilateral preemption, the American government's new emphasis on the utility of nuclear weapons has not received the attention it deserves.
An existing border dispute was used as a pretext to launch a swift invasion (one that caught Nehru’s India by surprise), inflict a humiliating defeat, and then stage a seemingly magnanimous unilateral withdrawal designed to highlight India’s impotence.
Under Trump, the US appears likely to be a largely unilateral actor, focused on its own short-term interests.
Individual countries like Germany are making binding unilateral commitments that are not conditional on what other countries do, and “coalitions of the willing” are being formed to tackle particular sectors.
During George W. Bush‘s presidency, unilateral security policies left America without friends.
In the Obama era, unilateral economic policies may have the same result.
Instead, he thought that radical unilateral action was required.
The conventional view, then as now, was that unilateral action risked unleashing a wave of protectionism.
And the long-term consequences of his unilateral decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital remain to be seen.
The Palestinians will now pursue with renewed determination and vigor a path to statehood through unilateral recognition.
China, too, has engaged in unilateral efforts to assert its territorial claims, especially in the South China Sea.
No matter how persuasive Abbas is in convincing radical groups to put down their arms, a unilateral ceasefire will not last long if it is not mutual.
Having declared their unilateral targets, they are unlikely to engage in further multilateral negotiations.
At a time when China’s economic downturn and unilateral territorial claims are posing serious challenges to the region, ASEAN’s weakness could prove highly dangerous.
The geopolitical costs of a unilateral US war will be even higher.
Moreover, unilateral mercantilism is no guarantee of success.
Even Israeli’s unilateral pledge to pull its army out of south Lebanon this summer did not instantly rekindle them.
Instead, it will grow louder on all sides, as the developed countries’ counter-productive resistance to any give and take on international cooperation results in a tsunami of unilateral tax measures beyond OECD control.
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