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- adjective Supporting or advocating
multilateralism . - noun this sense?) One who favors involving multiple parties when approaching foreign relations
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Examples
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It's not that the secretaries of State and Defense are always like-minded: Rumsfeld is widely and not inaccurately seen as a hawkish "go it alone" interventionist, while Powell tends to take a more cautious and "multilateralist" approach.
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He remained an internationalist (what we would call a "multilateralist" today) throughout his career and even in retirement.
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NATO gives a "multilateralist" fig leaf to brutal buccaneering expeditions.
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Remember how, while constantly singing the praises of U.S. president-elect Barack Obama for his "multilateralist" and sophisticated view of the world, our pundits killed off entire forests blasting Prime Minister Stephen Harper for his lack of "nuance" in supporting Israel when it was under attack from Hezbollah rockets in 2006?
Winnipeg Sun 2009
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Speaking in Rome, after the recent Bush “ Putin meeting and the subsequent establishment of a NATO “ Russia Council, he insisted that US foreign policy remains as "multilateralist" as ever.
Its Own Worst Enemy Judt, Tony 2002
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The two surge speeches showed Bush, the unilateralist, and Obama, the multilateralist, throughout.
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Murphy said Obama's most powerful multilateralist imagery may have been when he said the United States had "joined with others to develop an architecture of institutions – from the United Nations to NATO to the World Bank – that provide for the common security and prosperity of human beings."
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Obama is very much a multilateralist, Murphy said.
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In part, it was a reaction against his predecessor - George W. was never loved in the EU - but there was also the feeling that Obama was a genuine multilateralist.
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However the sensible option would be to drop the unilateralist VSE of Bush; in favour of a multilateralist VSE of Obama and continuously expand the ISS as is.
Russia Sees Future for its ISS Modules Beyond 2020 - NASA Watch 2009
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