DISADVANTAGE/LEADERSHIP BAD

USA UNILATERALISM IS A BAD EXERCISE OF LEADERSHIP

ADDITIONAL USA UNILATERALISM AT THIS TIME TRIGGERS A DECOUPLING OF THE USA FROM EUROPE

On other international issues as well, Europeans are dismayed by what they see as a U.S. penchant for unilateralism. At a conference in Bonn this week to discuss the global warming crisis, where the United States and Europe differed over how to meet limits on greenhouse gas emissions, U.S. delegation chief Frank Loy said a persistent theme concerned the refusal by the United States to play by the same rules as other nations.

"You could feel a lot of the resentment among the other delegations," Loy said. "There was no direct connection between the nuclear test ban vote and the global warming issue, but there was plenty of anger about what others see as the arrogance of a superpower that cannot or will not be held to account for its behavior."

BEST WAY TO AVOID BI-POLAR WORLD SYSTEM IS FOR THE USA TO WORK FOR INCLUSION -- MULTILATERALISM INSTEAD OF UNILATERALISM

Hans Binnendijk, 1999 Autumn; director of the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University, The Washington Quarterly, SECTION: EDITORIALS; Vol. 22, No. 4; Pg. 7 HEADLINE: Back to Bipolarity? // ln-acs-11-11-99

The best way to deal with this dilemma might be a twenty-first century version of Teddy Roosevelt's policy of "speaking softly and carrying a big stick." Speaking softly, twenty-first century style, would mean a policy of maximum inclusion for the other major powers. The United States should seek to keep Russia, China and India on the right side of the globalization and democratization trends.

NOW IS THE WRONG TIME FOR USA UNILATERALISM -- IT NEEDS FRIENDS, NOT ENEMIES

Financial Times (London), October 29, 1999, SECTION: COMMENT & ANALYSIS; Pg. 19, HEADLINE: Licence for a unilateral America: Washington is deluding itself if it thinks a new anti-missile defence system will enhance its national security // ln-acs-11-11-99

And here, for all their self-confidence, America's policymakers need to think hard. The days when US interests could be detached from those of its partners have long past. The nation's prosperity is built now on the world's interdependence - on free trade, a global economy and multilateral security arrangements. Never has America's national interest been so widely defined. This is not the moment for the US to make enemies of its friends.

USA IS BECOMING MORE AND MORE UNILATERALIST IN ITS FOREIGN POLICY

Much has been said lately about a new isolationist, or more properly, unilateralist impulse in Washington. The rejection by the Senate of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty has been taken as evidence that, as so often in the history of the republic, the US is retreating behind the security afforded by its geography.