This alone makes multilateral action more likely than solitary leadership.
These practices are fairly standard, though bilateral negotiations vary greatly and multilateral ones more so.
"The United States should take the process of multilateral democracy more seriously".
One study argues that America cut multilateral tariffs more slowly on goods to which it had extended preferential access.
This time, ministers gathering in this Persian Gulf state decided to make the least hierarchical of multilateral institutions more democratic.
International instruments have proliferated since World War II; between 1945 and 1965, there were about 2,500 multilateral treaties, more than in the previous 350 years.
Both gleefully attacked Mr Bush's "imperial pretensions", and insisted they would use diplomacy and multilateral institutions more than Mr Bush has done.
Moreover, South African AIDS diplomacy can be used to drive a transformationalist global agenda not only on issues of global health governance, but in terms of global and multilateral reform more broadly if pursued thoughtfully.
The UK is an ex-imperial power, while the Irish are more multilateral, big fans of the EU because it is a multilateral forum where the small countries' rights are overseen by the European Commission.
It is no surprise, then, that individual countries put less faith in multilateral institutions and more in their own resources.A similar rejection of multilateralism is under way in world trade, as the next article will show.
Officially, this is a far more multilateral venture than was, say, the invasion of Iraq.
