Whether all this really leaves America with no alternative to unilateralism may be open to doubt.
We don't like the unilateralism, the moralistic attitudes of the Americans, they're hemming us in.
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The other feature of this week's announcements is their curious mixture of unilateralism and co-operation.
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This does not appear to be the sort of abrupt American unilateralism that many people fear.
But there are worse "isms" than unilateralism, and three are imperialism, fascism and communism.
American "unilateralism, " as its critics call it, has not produced anything like perfect leadership.
Few Britons are fond of Mr Bush, owing to his perceived unilateralism and cowboy swagger.
As his second term ticks down, even Mr Bush has begun to see the limits of unilateralism.
Still, if this was unilateralism, it was of a most unusual kind: co-operative unilateralism, you might call it.
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Ernesto Zedillo engaged in the usual fallacious talk about unilateralism in his column.
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China Daily foresees "bleak" prospects and even further turmoil in Iraq and warns against "unilateralism" to resolve conflicts in other countries.
On the face of it, this is a better basis for American-Russian relations than either past arms negotiations or go-it-alone unilateralism.
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Understanding of our realignment plans should help lay to rest the accusations that the US favors unilateralism in national security affairs.
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As the party lost one, two, three, four successive general elections from 1979 on, so it ditched unpopular commitments: unilateralism, anti-Europeanism, tax-and-spend.
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The deconstruction of the Bush Doctrine began by reasonably criticizing its unilateralism in not reaching out to other partners in the international arena.
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Most in Europe are instinctively America's friends and, after the unilateralism of the Bush years, they want to have something to love about America again.
The leitmotif is that U.S. unilateralism is dead, long live multilateralism.
Multilateralism is hard, but it's preferable to unilateralism in these circumstances.
But unilateralism from any quarter may be both worrying and destabilising.
One big worry is that America is increasingly tempted by unilateralism.
Before 11 September, George W Bush was being criticised abroad for what was seen as his muscular unilateralism on such issues as Kyoto and missile defence.
In a stroke of unilateralism the White House announced it wouldn't even try to fix a decade- in-the-making international agreement, the Kyoto Protocol, to address global warming.
And I think in broader terms, Russia and China see this kind of collaboration as important to containing what they would see or describe as excessive U.S. unilateralism.
And therein lies a clue to the new danger: that this administration might reinforce the unilateralism of Congress, whereas its predecessors, Republican and Democratic alike, have generally resisted it.
Nevertheless, Labour modernisation continued apace, with the party making peace with the UK's membership of the European Union, the market economy, ditching unilateralism and moving away from firm commitments on re-nationalisation.
To Mr Peres, who believes there is still hope of talking peace with Mr Arafat, who knew, and approved, of his negotiations with Mr Korei, unilateralism is a counsel of despair.
But even while he was still a Republican Senator, Hagel exhibited a sort of ecumenical internationalism that favored coalition warfare and collective security over the kind of unilateralism embraced by some neo-conservatives.
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And asked which man would better handle relations with other countries, Bush -- charged by his critics with alienating the world community through unilateralism -- beat his Democratic challenger by a 52 percent to 44 percent margin.
At worst they would follow the recent example of the International Court of Justice and use a legal dispute to score points against American "unilateralism" and "arrogance" for a global audience keen to humble the United States.
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