It might also require a culture change as the U.S. becomes a positive force behind UN agencies and other multilateral players, rather than the usual role of unilateral lead actor.
The Swiss government policy emphasizes improving 'the efficiency of multilateral players in the fields of health, development cooperation and humanitarian aid,' but not aid volumes noting that 'no additional human or financial resources are planned for the implementation of this agreement' (FDHA, emphasis added).
Vietnam's strategy has been to try to "internationalize" the disputes by bringing in other players for multilateral negotiations.
The best approach is to form multilateral relations with all the players.
Bilateral donors, multilateral agencies, and international NGOs were important players in shaping malaria control policies, particularly through funding ITN programmes in Mozambique and Zimbabwe: "...but of course the insecticide treated nets agenda is also pushed, as you may be aware, very strongly by the bilateral donors, and other players and the UN family and so on.
At the same time, India is an increasingly important player at the table in multilateral economic fora, from the WTO Doha Round negotiations and the G-20, World Bank and IMF to the UNFCCC negotiations in Copenhagen.
But others question whether Busquin's pan-European research vision will ever be more than a pipe dream, and they worry that the multilateral projects his office stimulates will relegate smaller players, from Austria to Slovenia, to the sidelines.
Utility values according to the multilateral Nash bargaining solution (state no. 4; ω=0) for players SHI (solid line), MCO (dashed) and RI (dotted) in relation to marginal changes in μ SHI (left panel) and (bar c) (right panel).
This literature initially dealt with the policy decisions of multilateral financial institutions, notably the World Bank and IMF, along with other institutional players in global economic relations such as the WTO and OECD [ 118].
Vietnam is pushing hard behind the scenes to bring more foreign players into negotiations so that China will have to bargain in a multilateral setting with all Southeast Asian nations that have territorial claims in the South China Sea.
Since multilateral disarmament negotiations began in Switzerland in 1962, Sweden also has been key player in international efforts to control and restrict transfers of conventional arms, to enforce the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons, chemical and biological weapons, and missile technology, and to achieve a total ban on antipersonnel mines.
