unilateralism

(noun)

A tendency of nations to act on their own, or with only minimal consultation and involvement with other nations.

Related Terms

  • Preemptive War
  • Saddam Hussein

Examples of unilateralism in the following topics:

  • The Unilateral Declaration of Independence

  • Voluntary, Involuntary, and Trust Associations

    • The first person's action either takes place with the consent of the person to be affected, or it is unilateral, without the affected person's consent.
    • An involuntary association is created by the unilateral imposition or the threat of sanctions.
    • But there is no such choice, for their relationship has been unilaterally established by the robber.
    • A second type of association, which we will call trusts, is created by unilaterally conferring inducements.
    • The association is created unilaterally by the parents, but their actions—creating, housing, feeding, clothing the child—are inducements from the child's point of view.
  • Cleft Palate and Lip

    • Lip cleft can occur as a one-sided (unilateral) or two-sided (bilateral).
  • Promoting Free Trade

    • Countries that recognize the benefits for growth from promoting free trade can take unilateral, bilateral, or multilateral action to reduce some of these barriers to trade.
    • Unilateral promotion of free trade is when a country decides to reduce its own trade barriers without any promise of action from its trading partners.
  • A Periodic Table of Associations

    • It is involuntary because the robber unilaterally creates the association by threatening you with a sanction if you do not hand over your money.
    • Remember that a trust is an association where one party unilaterally confers inducements on another party.
    • Here government unilaterally confers inducements on particular people.
    • Government-as-trustee II, if it ever were to exist, would be like government-as-trustee I except that it would act as trustee—i.e. unilaterally confer inducements—for the entire public, not just for selected individuals or groups of individuals.
  • National Labor Relations Act

    • It was found that an employer, a commercial laundry company, violated the Act by: (1) warning the union's shop steward not to provide information about bargaining to employees; (2) warning employees not to provide information to the union; (3) warning employees not to speak about the union during the workday, including break and lunch times; (4) threatening to discharge employees if they participated in union or other protected activities; (5) threatening employees that the shop would be closed and they would be discharged if the employer had to accept the union's contract proposals; (6) threatening to discharge employees if they went on strike; (7) promising employees a wage increase and new benefits if the union no longer represented them; (8) polling employees as to whether they supported the union; (9) interrogating employees about their union membership, activities, and sympathies; (10) deducting union dues from employees' paychecks, but failing to remit those funds to the union; (11) issuing written warnings to, and then discharging, an employee for supporting the union; (12) failing to bargain in good faith with the union; (13) conditioning bargaining upon the commitment of the union to refrain from handbilling the employer's customers or engaging in any strike or picketing activity; (14) unilaterally stopping payments to various union funds; (15) unilaterally granting employees a wage increase; (16) refusing to bargain with the union because the union's shop steward was present; and (17) unilaterally implementing new rules regarding the union's access to unit employees at the facility.
  • The Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

    • Unilateralism is any doctrine or agenda that supports one-sided action.
    • Advocates of U.S. unilateralism argue that other countries should not have "veto power" over matters of U.S. national security.
    • Proponents of U.S. unilateralism generally believe that a multilateral institution, such as the United Nations (UN), is morally suspect because, they argue, it treats non-democratic, and even despotic, regimes as being as legitimate as democratic countries.
    • Unilateral elements were evident in the first months of Bush's presidency.
    • Conservative Charles Krauthammer, coiner of the term "Bush Doctrine," deployed "unilateralism" in February of 2001 to refer to the president's foreign policy.
  • Strabismus

    • In fact, amblyopia refers to the brain's ignoring input from one eye, which itself can result from discordance in the images provided by the eyes such as occurs in constant unilateral strabismus.
    • Strabismus may be classified as unilateral if the same eye consistently 'wanders,' or alternating if either of the eyes can be seen to 'wander. ' Alternation of the strabismus may occur spontaneously, with or without subjective awareness of the alternation.
  • Sources of Power

    • Unilateral tactics, on the other hand, are enacted without any participation on the part of the target.
    • Studies have shown that men tend to use bilateral and direct tactics, whereas women tend to use unilateral and indirect tactics.
  • The Nixon Shock

    • In May 1971, inflation-wary West Germany was the first member country to unilaterally leave the Bretton Woods system — unwilling to devalue the Deutsche Mark in order to prop up the dollar.
    • On August 9, 1971, as the dollar dropped in value against European currencies, Switzerland unilaterally withdrew the Swiss franc from the Bretton Woods system.
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