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But if America succumbs to the unilateralist temptation too easily, it is likely to encounter the criticisms that the Bush Administration is now encountering.
In fact, these episodes epitomize both powers’ unilateralist approach to international law.
Today, the United States and China serve as prime examples of a unilateralist approach to international relations, even as they aver support for strengthening global rules and institutions.
But who is supposed to take the lead when China and the US have pursued a unilateralist approach on this issue?
Libya’s popular uprising, for example, left Turkey’s government caught between the country’s economic interests and its unilateralist regional inclinations, on the one hand, and its traditional alliances, on the other.
The United States, the world’s long-time leader in forging international cooperation, has begun to express a unilateralist creed, striking fear into the hearts of many countries worldwide.
To be sure, the US has long pursued a unilateralist foreign policy, exemplified by George W. Bush’s 2003 invasion of Iraq and Barack Obama’s 2011 overthrow of Muammar el-Qaddafi’s regime in Libya.
Without a fundamental turnaround in American political consciousness, the unilateralist amnesia of US foreign policy will have far-reaching consequences and leave a huge vacuum in the global system.
This mental turnaround is, indeed, essential if things are to improve, because the situation in Iraq represents, above all, a defeat of America’s unilateralist orientation.
Just Say No to BushFor three years, America's president has pursued a unilateralist agenda, ignoring all evidence that contradicts his positions, and putting aside basic and longstanding American principles.
In Iraq, Bush again pursued a unilateralist agenda, saying that there was incontrovertible evidence of a link with Al Queda, and that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction.
The “Bush Doctrine” of preemptive war and coercive democratization, coupled with a unilateralist style, was based on a flawed analysis of power in today’s world.
Their objection is to his aggressive, unilateralist methods.
Similarly, his administration’s declared positions on the environment, on energy, on defense and on foreign policy are all strongly right-wing or unilateralist or both.
But what has tended to get lost in these discussions are the malign synergies between a Third World suspicious that so-called humanitarian interventions are only colonialism redux and a unilateralist US administration wedded to the concept of pre-emptive war against enemies that it equates with states that violate human rights.
There is no small irony in the fact that on November 15, America’s lame duck president, the unilateralist George W. Bush, is hosting a multilateral conference to discuss reshaping the global economic system.
So Kerry may put even more pressure on Europe to help out in Iraq than the unilateralist Bush ever did.
Were America less bent on pursuing unilateralist policies, in pushing against an international rule of law , this might not make much of a difference.
His unilateralist approach is likely to force the US into playing catch-up with a China left almost unfettered in its continued efforts to win over the hearts and minds of those whose countries it views as vital, economically and politically, to its strategic interests.
Trump can play tough at being a unilateralist.
First, it has become clear that President George W. Bush's administration, by inclination, remains as unilateralist as it seemed when it came to power 11 months ago.
Events since September 11 th , however, confirmed that the unilateralist instinct of this US Administration is in fact unmodified.
Many Russian analysts argue that once America's war against the Taliban is over, it will return to its unilateralist ways when help is no longer needed.
Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump’s unilateralist posture has reduced America’s soft power and influence.
Then came Trump, whose administration has pulled the rug out from under Europe’s feet, abandoned American leadership within the rules-based international system, and pursued a nationalist, protectionist, and unilateralist foreign policy.
The protectionist, unilateralist, illiberal Trump apparently prefers to antagonize US friends and allies, leaving the West divided and ill-equipped to defend and reform the liberal world order that it created.
The immediate result is a significant spike in tensions, with third countries (including allies) raising concerns about America’s unilateralist turn.