Is multilateralism still viable today ?
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Summary After WWII, various multilateral organizations have been promoted by the US and implemented through many international organizations such as the UN, the GATT and the IMF. Overtime, multilateral co-operation dramatically developed in different forms (Summits, Conferences, etc...). However, critics of international organizations point to the unilateral tendency of American foreign policy. Therefore the pertinent question has to be asked: Are international relations today governed by multilateralism? However, it must be asserted that if multilateralism undergoes a crisis today, unilateralism is nevertheless not viable in a global world...
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- Multilateralism is experiencing a crisis in world politics today
- The American foreign policy is increasingly acting in a unilateral or bilateral fashion
- The international organizations, pillars of multilateralim, are criticized
- Nevertheless, multilateralism remains present and viable in the long term in a global world
- Unilateralism is not viable in an interdependent and multipolar world
- Multilateralism is still developing in some fields and areas
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