multilateralism

Examples

• All

• Almost all accepted open trade as the goal and nondiscriminatory multilateralism through the GATT as the strategy.

  Academic text (1994)

• The Enterprise Initiative does not represent a shift in US trade policy away from multilateralism and toward regionalism.

  Academic text (1990)

• Australia and the United States differ on the importance of multilateralism.

  Academic text (2003)

• Hence the ongoing need for multilateralism, which the U.S. National Security Strategy seemed to recognize.

  Academic text (2003)

• Most Asian countries thus focus primarily on expanding multilateralism and their global relationships.

  Academic text (1990)

• After the Cold War, Turkey began to pay particular attention to regional cooperative security and multilateralism in foreign affairs.

  Academic text (2000)

• During the postwar period, German leaders used multilateralism as a legitimate mechanism for advancing German interests.

  Academic text (1991)

• For all its underpinnings in realpolitik, the strategy committed the United States to multilateralism.

  Academic text (2003)

• Much of the current debate surrounding regionalism and multilateralism takes an either/or approach.

  Academic text (1994)

• The Chinese emphasize the "inclusive nature of multilateralism, its procedure of consulting and consensus-building, and its pursuit of common security."

  Academic text (2003)

Synonyms

I

internationalism

vsmultilateralism

3 6.0

A belief that countries should work together and be friendly

is a practical system for several countries to decide together on common issues

Antonyms

U

unilateralism

3 9.1

A policy of acting alone in world affairs without asking other countries

How Many

multilateralism

• Formal

2 7.4

bilateralism

• Specialized

7.5

unilateralism

3 9.1

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology