Word: multilateralist
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...first-world countries, and that the vast majority of the “have-nots,” like those in non-Arab Africa, East and South Asia, and South America, have no special desire to blow us up), Kilfoyle declares that Europeans “look for a multilateralist approach to these dire challenges, whilst [the American] administration appears set on a unilateral approach...” He doesn’t go on to say exactly why this is a problem, but one guesses he doesn’t mean it as a compliment...
This is the crux of the different analyses of Europeans and Americans. Most of the former look for a multilateralist approach to these dire challenges, whilst your administration appears set on a unilateral approach with the useful propaganda addition of Tony Blair. I stress Tony Blair as opposed to the United Kingdom, because, currently, he does not have either his party or his people on board. Europeans have not been encouraged by the present American administration’s retreat from the Kyoto agreement, from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, and from open trade. Indeed, the United States is seen...
...Bush team, Powell finds himself operating across a fault line. In shorthand, it is attitude. The differences within the team are not about goals so much as about the manner of accomplishing them. Powell is a multilateralist; other Bush advisers are unilateralists. He's internationalist; they're America first. If you wanted to put a label on Powell's foreign outlook, you could call it "compassionate conservatism"; the others share the second notion but not the first. He is often seen as the Administration's force of moderation, charged with checking its more extreme enthusiasms. Even when winning, he seems...
Since its early days, Powell has nudged the Administration toward a more centrist, multilateralist approach. Rice now admits that Kyoto hurt the image of the Bush team, and she struggles to convince allies and adversaries that she's not as unilateralist as she appears. But first impressions last. The U.S. can still look as if it's trying to set the rules for the rest of the world--and then break them. When pressed on the source of that impression, Rice only bolsters it: "There are times when the U.S. isn't going to be in a position of agreement...
...Bush team, Powell finds himself operating across a fault line. In shorthand, it is attitude. The differences within the team are not about goals so much as about the manner of accomplishing them. Powell is a multilateralist; other Bush advisers are unilateralists. He's internationalist; they're America first. If you wanted to put a label on Powell's foreign outlook, you could call it "compassionate conservatism"; the others share the second notion but not the first. He is often seen as the Administration's force of moderation, charged with checking its more extreme enthusiasms. Even when winning, he seems...