unilateralism
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- n the doctrine that nations should conduct their foreign affairs individualistically without the advice or involvement of other nations
- It was judicious but unapologetic unilateralism.
- The practical costs of the last plank of the Bush Doctrine--unilateralism--may have finally persuaded the Administration to jettison that too.
- In a stroke of unilateralism the White House announced it wouldn't even try to fix a decade-in-the-making international agreement, the Kyoto Protocol, to address global warming.