Unilateralism and U.S. Foreign Policy: International Perspectives
  • 2003/460 pages
  • Center on International Cooperation Studies in Multilateralism

Unilateralism and U.S. Foreign Policy:

International Perspectives

David M. Malone and Yuen Foong Khong, editors
Hardcover: $75.00
ISBN: 978-1-58826-143-4
Paperback: $27.50
ISBN: 978-1-58826-119-9
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From the war on terrorism to global warming, from national missile defense to unilateral sanctions, the U.S. has been taken to task for coming on too strong—or for doing too little. This important new book explores international reactions to U.S. conduct in world affairs

Authors from around the world address the tensions between unilateralism and multilateralism in U.S. foreign policy. Their careful analysis suggests that the U.S. inclination to go it alone may undermine not only long-term international support for U.S. leadership, but also the sustainability of valuable international institutions.

David M. Malone, under-secretary-general of the United Nations, serves as  rector of the United Nations University. His most recent publication is The International Struggle over Iraq: Politics in the UN Security Council 1998-2005. Yuen Foon Khong is John G. Winant University Lecturer in U.S. Foreign Policy and a fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford University. His publications include Analogies at War: Korea, Munich, Dien Bien Phu and the Vietnam Decisions of 1965 and a coauthored volume, Power in Transition: The Peaceful Change of International Order.