Word: multilateralist
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...threatening European and world economic stability, and by abandoning the lofty multilateralist goals of this country's past, Bush has abdicated our responsibility for world leadership on trade...
...Week 9 came to a close, war was still a distinct danger -- and a definite option for the U.S. -- but the President who addressed the United Nations Monday was Bush the multilateralist. He seemed to realize that he has earned such widespread praise, both at home and abroad, precisely because he has resisted a very American temptation: instead of coming on like gangbusters, he has shown the restraint necessary to lead an international effort that cuts across both East-West and North-South divides. If sustained, his accomplishment may establish a precedent for collective-security arrangements more enduring than...
...their life experiences. Bush is the first former CIA director to seek the White House; Dukakis was an exchange student in Peru at the time of the 1954 CIA-backed coup in Guatemala. Small wonder that Bush retains a hawkish can-do faith in covert action; Dukakis is a multilateralist keenly aware of the damage to American prestige and fair-play values that can be the permanent byproduct of unwise subversion and military intervention...
...Viet Nam, Democratic Party activists have increasingly been drawn toward neoisolationism, as expressed by George McGovern's exhortation "Come home, America," while Republican activists have tended toward a unilateralist policy, symbolized by Reagan's call for America to "stand tall." Dukakis takes a third approach: he calls himself a "multilateralist." In other words, he portrays himself as part of the once dominant bipartisan consensus that favored asserting American influence through alliances, treaty organizations, economic partnerships and the United Nations, and in accordance with international law. His world view reflects his background as a lawyer who has a reformer's faith...