...Jonathan D. Tepperman Copyright © 2004 World Policy Institute 2004 Jonathan D. Tepperman is senior editor at Foreign Affairs magazine. Some Hard Truths about Multilateralism Jonathan D. Tepperman Throughout this year’s presidential cam­ much in the air. And since...

...-editor, with Shepard Forman, o f Multilateralism and U.S. Foreign Policy: Ambivalent Engagement, Lynne Rienner Publishers, forthcoming. Don’t Fence Me In The Perils o f G oin g It Alone Stewart Patrick The epithet “unilateralism” has been much ment this foreign...

... extreme with the end of the superpower rivalry ig­ manifestations), “rogue” states engaged in nore the fact that today’s key issues— i.e., clandestine proliferation activities, or forces globalization, multilateralism, and funda­ that resist globalization in the economic as mentalism— have their roots...

..., the U.S. Treasury, and the interna­ eign debt problems remain a serious threat tional financial institutions, or multilaterals, to the global economy. A default in, say, Ar­ including the International Monetary Fund gentina, could set off a chain reaction: losses (IMF), the World Bank...

... in the varying ap­ threat of biological arms. proaches of the two administrations to the This rejection of multilateralism and lethal challenge of weapons of mass destruc­ verified arms control was foreshadowed by tion. It is too often forgotten that with the disagreements in the first Bush administra­...

... there is governments prescribe when borrower coun­ no system for deciding how much private- tries run into trouble paying their debts. sector lenders, multilateral lenders like the Yet efforts to apply Argentina’s hard-won IMF, and governments should forgive when a lessons have been erratic...

... opposing camps: However, Washington has used the ter­ those who advocate unilateralist self-suffi­ rorist attacks to justify a quantum increase ciency (who tend to prevail) and those who in military and security-related expendi­ advocate multilateralism and acceptance of Post-9/ll...

... astonishingly in light of the commitments to multilateral action, a vi­ president’s declared commitment to free sion that finds the constraints of interna­ trade—the imposition of high tariffs on tional society an unwanted and unacceptable steel. But the propensity toward unilateral burden. It is toward...

... security presented by these problems augurated in January 2001. Right-wing requires a multilateral response. Obviously, opinion in the United States had it that the leaders of every independent state will China was the most likely challenger to attempt to advance their own interests as U.S...

... Multilateralism" Courier Learned” (XXI: 1) (XXI:2) Hendrickson, David C.; "A Dissenter's Guide to Foreign Policy" Tharoor, Shashi; "Globalization and the Human Imagination” (XXI:2) (XXI: 1...

..., and analyzes the on its southern border that that make up implications for the United States. the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). From Unilateralism to Multilateralism The emergence of China promises to al­ The first phase of China’s engagement...

... for a peaceful A Brief History of the Conflict solution, Congo has been largely missing President Mobutu Sese Seku ruled over Zaire from the agendas of the Western powers (as Congo was called from 1971 to 1997) and multilateral organizations. Only in Jan­ with an iron fist for over 30 years. Mobutu...

... started to play a more con­ nuclear blackmail. structive role in such global multilateral in­ The Soviet collapse also undermined In­ stitutions as the World Trade Organization. dia’s autarkic approach to economic develop­ They also dropped their rhetoric on behalf ment...

... the idea of a pipeline Russia, China, South Korea, and the pri­ crossing through North Korea to the South, vate companies involved hope that Japan has been pushing the Kovykta project. But and multilateral lending institutions will South Korea has yet to resolve interlocking join...

.... There may be some leaders unwilling to accept this rule. But they will be the future losers. President Putin may just prove to be the first example. The first principle could be called the imperative of multilateralism. No state, neither Germany nor other European states nor the United States...

... Convention, and but it does not commit the United States the Chemical Weapons Convention— are to spend much more on nonproliferation multilateral agreements that include friends than it is spending now. It remains to be and potential adversaries alike. Properly en­ seen whether...

... the Nuclear Nightmare 35 — a multilateral concern, rather than a game weapons. While rhetorically resistant to a of two countries with the rest of the world multilateral approach, the Bush team has as passive spectators. But much could be yet to formulate...

... beneficiary of such activity, first, because it The Need for Sustained Multilateralism. appears to be the primary target of various Nothing less than sustained multilateralism nonstate terrorists; second, because it lacks will enable major powers to neutralize the adequate human resources...

... re­ $500 million in remittances and $2.5 bil­ porters after Aristide’s second ouster that lion from governments, either directly or they would have preferred real jobs. through multilateral lending institutions. These factors combined to create a sys­ (Remittances have since risen to nearly $ 1...

... deadlock affects not only on our national heritage, or even as a threat multilateral talks like those at the WTO, but to national security.6 also bilateral and regional trade talks be­ Despite these formidable opposition cause the main barrier to reform is between forces, agriculture...