Multilateralism is not something which China can push on its own without making any investment.
In this context, the High Panel made a strong call for more effective multilateralism.
Mr Blustein has some ideas about what should be done to reform the WTO and strengthen multilateralism.
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Let me conclude with the defining challenge of our generation, the defining challenge for multilateralism -- climate change.
When Europeans talk about "multilateralism, " they typically don't mean agreeing on a common policy to carry out together.
Even many of America's allies have been alarmed at the apparent disdain for multilateralism of the new administration.
Washington also needs to reassure smaller nations, especially the ASEAN members, of its continued commitment to multilateralism in trade.
Darfur is a case study in both the success and shortfalls of multilateralism.
But overall, most seem to have concluded that, on trade, multilateralism makes sense.
For his part, Mr Kerry has moved the other way, from multilateralism towards stressing the importance of American power.
During the cold war, Brazil stuck to multilateralism, and could avoid hard choices.
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And I will continue to push for a renewed multilateralism grounded in the recognition that we sink or swim together.
But perhaps most of all, I am at home in Vienna because of your commitment to multilateralism, your ethic of engagement.
At your last Summit, leaders pledged to promote and reinforce multilateralism and strengthen the United Nations central role in this arena.
For them, the world was now about international law, and the newfound faith in multilateralism that emerged after the first Gulf War.
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So when Europeans search for a common foreign policy, they naturally apply the principles of multilateralism that have worked well at home.
The "multilateralism" Zedillo writes about obviously refers to the UN's Security Council.
As so often before, the fixation on multilateralism is restraining credible action.
The Clinton Administration has placed great emphasis on multilateralism, particularly with respect to U.N. peacekeeping operations involving U.S. forces in several arenas.
"The nomination... has generated public debate on US policies toward the UN and on the degree to which the US should embrace multilateralism, " he said.
Eliasson pleaded for early warning mechanisms, and stronger capacities to manage natural resources, underlining the role of new technologies, education and multilateralism to do so.
Multilateralism is hard, but it's preferable to unilateralism in these circumstances.
By contrast, the case for multilateralism is often far from self-evident.
They have used multilateralism as a way to further unilateral policies.
As Obama seeks to stabilize the region, his administration has been advocating multilateralism and stressing "smart power" diplomacy by using all the tools of foreign policy available.
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Each has its own rules and administrative requirements, leading to a confusing spaghetti (or perhaps noodle soup) of preferential agreements, instead of the predictability that multilateralism promises.
Experts in the region say that because multilateralism has not been promoted in the region, efforts such as, for instance, regional flood forecasting has not progressed well.
Still, in this post-Iraq era when the U.S. is supposed to be demonstrating at every turn its commitment to "multilateralism, " the UN might just get what it wants.
That does not mean the commitment to multilateralism is absolute.
And by focusing its campaign on the most dangerous proliferators and nuclear terrorism, it raises an awkward question: will minutely choreographed multilateralism make much difference to the hardest cases?
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