unilateralist
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“Gotabaya has a dualistic personality — one side of that personality that the country has seen is this unilateralist, quite insensitive ex-military man,” Jayatilleka said.
From Seattle Times • May 13, 2022
President Donald Trump, who has taken a more unilateralist approach to international issues than his predecessors, is scheduled to turn up at Davos and deliver a speech as well as meet business leaders.
From Washington Times • Jan. 15, 2020
In 2008, he was at the Brandenburg Gate when Obama, then a presidential candidate, gave a speech to hundreds of thousands of Germans repudiating the unilateralist politics that prevailed under President George W. Bush.
From Washington Post • Oct. 10, 2017
He is not so much an isolationist as a unilateralist.
From Slate • Aug. 8, 2016
Jeremy Corbyn, a unilateralist and member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, has spent his life campaigning against nuclear weapons.
From BBC • Jul. 16, 2016
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