Indeed, they can be applied to any intervention — however limited its aims, multilateral its means, and competent its commanders.
By definition, however, multilateral diplomacy means that we must compromise on some points without giving up our fundamental principles.
And a multilateral pact meant there was no trouble over Serbs in Kosovo voting in the elections.That there is broad agreement on Serbia's direction is good news for a country once seen as the Balkans' black hole.
Multilateral deals mean common standards and lower barriers for all, but the Doha round, launched by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in 2001, is dead in all but name.
On the basis of its findings, Icai has awarded DfID a green-amber rating for the impact of its multilateral work, which means that while the programme was performing relatively well overall, improvements needed to be made.
As the economist N. Gregory Mankiw of Harvard likes to say, multilateral trade pacts mean agreeing with other nations that "I won't shoot myself in the foot if you won't shoot yourself in the foot".
The navies of these states have a responsibility to keep the seas free, and this means concerted, multilateral action against Somali pirates.
If countries lose faith in multilateral negotiations as a means to achieving better market access, they may turn to litigation to reach their trade goals.Perhaps most worrying, the Doha impasse in part reflects the intellectual shifts that this special report has described.
In our network, this means that multilateral organizations tend to be co-cited together, and this holds for all other types of organization.
General Liang repeated China's view that "practical co-operation within multilateral frameworks does not mean settling all security issues".
