unilateralist
- noun
- /ˌjunɪˈlætəˌrəlɪst/
- The debate is often framed between multilateralists who seek cooperation and unilateralists who prefer acting alone.
- unilateralist tendency
- unilateralist policy
- unilateralist president
Examples
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Involving the United Nations and neighboring countries, Seoul worries that the unilateralist tendency may lead Washington to brandish hard-line policies toward Pyongyang without consulting Seoul.
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There are thus few unilateralists in the American business community.
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Given this background, it is clear that President Bush is hardly the first unilateralist American president.
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On several talk shows on Sunday, 8 September, administration officials moved away from a unilateralist tone and built the case for a broad coalition.
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Russia believes that the U.S. unilateralist approach to arms control is more dangerous for nuclear proliferation.
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Is it better to use an aggressive, unilateralist approach to promote intellectual property instead of using the multilateral approach?
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All these steps have reinforced the concern that America is pursuing a unilateralist rather than a globally cooperative foreign policy.
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For all these reasons, Washington simply cannot afford the resentment and lack of cooperation that a unilateralist America engenders.
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Indonesia's impression that the Bush administration is more unilateralist than its predecessor has led to official Indonesian expressions of concern.
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Christopher Patten, the European Union commissioner for foreign policy, warned Washington of the dangers of "unilateralist overdrive" in the fight against terror, and of abandoning constructive engagement with North Korea and Iran.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
unilateralist = unilateral (transparent) = uni + lateral + ist
Clear formation from the adjective 'unilateral' plus the agentive suffix '-ist' denoting a person who advocates or practices unilateralism.
Etymology
Unilateralist comes from the parts uni- 'one' and lateral 'side', plus -ist 'a person'. So a unilateralist is someone who prefers action by one side only and chooses to act alone rather than together with others.