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But Bush neither invented American unilateralism nor triggered the transatlantic rift between the United States and Europe.
But to solve deep-seated problems with the global financial system, we need to go beyond the complacency that has long marked the G-7 and the unilateralism that defines the current US administration.
Although Trump has not (yet) toppled a regime, he has taken the approach of assertive unilateralism several steps further, waging a multi-pronged assault on the international order.
This dynamic can be seen in the way Trump and Xi respond to each other’s unilateralism.
Instead, its leaders hope that a robust international force in southern Lebanon will provide protection for northern Israel, leaving them with a free hand to deal unilaterally with Gaza and the West Bank, while committing the international community to Israel’s failed unilateralism.
But that can no longer be an argument against diplomacy now that Israeli unilateralism has once again proven to be a strategic blind alley.
While Palestinians travel the world soliciting votes, Israeli officials are engaged in last-minute efforts to dissuade countries from supporting what they perceive as Palestinian unilateralism.
For the Palestinians, the bottom line in the Sharon plan and the Bush letter is that diplomacy and negotiations no longer have a role: Israeli unilateralism, combined with American prejudgment, makes that clear.
The time of American unilateralism is objectively over.
Instead, America succumbed to the temptation of unilateralism.
It is almost tempting to think that America’s great Cold War opponent, the Soviet Union, with its sudden disappearance 15 years ago this month, left its own Trojan horse for America – the poisoned gift of unilateralism.
Given the dangers of unilateralism for the current world order, so do America’s enemies.
Europe has no trouble seeing the dangers of unilateralism in America's actions, in everything from abandoning Kyoto to its refusal to join the International Criminal Court.
Second, the Bush administration’s unilateralism shattered the belief that the US would continue to provide the world with “multilateral” leadership; indeed, US unilateralism was a cue for Russia to pursue its own unilateral policy.
European-style multilateralism depends on constantly tweaking existing arrangements, which makes it the opposite of Trump-style unilateralism.
Most Europeans take it for granted that the US will attack Iraq, and that this act of unilateralism, coming in the wake of all the other irritants such as the ABM Treaty, the Kyoto Agreement, the steel tariffs and the International Criminal Court, will have a devastating effect on transatlantic relations.
American unilateralism is much less in evidence in the world's other hot spots, such as North Korea and Iran, both because of the costs of the war in Iraq and the realities of the situation in those other regions.
If Trump is serious about putting “America first,” his administration will shift US geopolitical strategy toward isolationism and unilateralism, pursuing only the national interests of the homeland.
One victim of American post-Cold War unilateralism has been the transatlantic alliance.
But the problem with the metaphor is that it implies a degree of American control that is unrealistic, and reinforces the prevailing strong temptations towards unilateralism in both the US Congress and parts of the Bush administration.
What the Greeks call democracy comes across in many other – equally democratic – countries as irresponsible unilateralism.
American unilateralism now could make forging a common front against Iran much more difficult in the future.
Some Europeans argued that the US was irreversibly bent on unilateralism.
And establishing one received a major boost from Europeans’ deepening security concerns during George W. Bush’s presidency, when American unilateralism was rampant.
What will be their preferred mix of unilateralism and multilateralism, and which tools – from diplomacy and sanctions to intelligence operations and military force – will they reach for most often?
What China achieved in the South China Sea has significantly more far-reaching and longer-term strategic implications than, say, Russia’s annexation of Crimea, as it sends the message that defiant unilateralism does not necessarily carry international costs.
When Vladimir Putin complained during a conference in Munich last year that US unilateralism stoked conflict around the world, an offended Senator John McCain responded that confrontation was unnecessary in “today’s multipolar world.”
Pence was able to spread the gospel of American unilateralism at a meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Singapore, and again at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Papua New Guinea.
But China does not always live by what it preaches as far as cooperation is concerned, as its unilateralism in the South China Sea indicates.
Both sides have an interest in defending this key institution of global governance from the xenophobic unilateralism embodied by Trump’s policies.
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