unilateralist policy

Many surveys show that this "tide" is not so much anti-American as anti-Bush, based on a dislike of the president's unilateralist policies, particularly in Iraq and the Middle East.

Europeans are rightly alarmed at the unilateralist policies of the US administration, its readiness to contemplate pre-emptive strikes and its refusal to internationalise the occupation of Iraq.

Some American business practices are regarded with deep suspicion here, in light of the corporate accounting scandals and what many Europeans see as the Bush administration's high-handed and unilateralist policies on the environment and Iraq.

Following the end of the Peloponnesian War in 404 BC, Sparta had embarked upon an aggressively unilateralist policy towards the rest of Greece and quickly alienated many of its former allies.

The opposite, unilateralist policy was expressed by Mr. Nixon long ago to the cadets: "I say that America has a vital national interest in world stability, and no other nation can uphold that interest for us."

Proponents also point out that the unilateralist policy of having the United States control Japan after World War II was more of a success than multilateral policies such as those used in post-war Germany.

Another op-ed in the Beacon's first issue defended America's unilateralist policies by saying "There is now a faction in American politics that is willing to disregard our national sovereignty and take orders from an international organization.

Yes, conservatives thought out of the box in denouncing Europe and pursuing a unilateralist policy in Iraq, but if the ideas behind their foreign policy are disastrous, as they evidently are, perhaps one should be more guarded about conservatism's triumph.

He has consistently urged a U.S. leadership role in the world, based on established alliances, and warned against unilateralist policies that would destroy U.S. global credibility and precipitate U.S. global isolation.

Instead, Wolfowitz advocated a unilateralist policy, claiming that the U.S. did not need China's assistance but that the Chinese needed the U.S. to protect them against the far-more-likely prospect of a Soviet invasion of the Chinese mainland.

To the Editor: The attempt by Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain to heal the rift in the United Nations caused by Washington's unpopular, pre-emptive and unilateralist policy is of the highest importance if the world organization is to regain its stature and relevance (news article, March 27).