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Diffusion of power to Asian giants such as China and India along
with a partial
revival of Russian power outside Europe's sphere of control could
lay the basis for
a new transatlantic solidarity as both sides accentuate commonalities
of interest,
values, and history in a more diverse world. Europe would continue
to build its own
identity and pursue its interests, but becoming a "counterweight"
to the United
States would not be the driving rationale behind eu or member-state
foreign
policies. Both sides would concentrate on finding ways to use
multilateralism to
solve global and regional problems without artificially seeking
to employ it either
to consolidate or to reverse power relationships that in the long
run will be
determined by the internal cohesion and dynamism of each side.
Such an outcome is
arguably in the interests of both parties in that it neither permanently
condemns
Europe to a second-tier status in a way that many European elites
find difficult to
stomach nor exposes
the United States to the constant harassment of a Europe seeking
to consolidate its
unity and enhance its international status by playing the "unilateralism"
card.
PARUL,
MBA 2005
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Unilateralism may be preferred in those instances when it's
assumed to be
the most efficient, i.e. in issues that can be solved without
cooperation.
However, a government may also have a principal preference for
unilateralism or multilateralism, and for instance strive to
avoid
policies that can't be realized unilaterally, alternatively
to champion
multilateral solution also to problems that seen isolated equally
well
could have been solved unilaterally
SURUCHI AMATYA
MBA 2005
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