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
But it slowed the process and annoyed the many radical unilateralists within the administration, including Vice President Dick Cheney.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 2, 2023
Since 1945 both multilateralists and unilateralists have had a voice in shaping American nonproliferation policy, and today both sides are partly right.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2018
Victory over the unilateralists finally made Gaitskell's power absolute, and in the next two years he set out to rally the party behind a unified policy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Britain has long had a vocal minority of unilateralists on the Left.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the 1960 debate over unilateral disarmament, Wilson aligned himself with the unilateralists against Shadow Prime Minister Hugh Gaitskell.
From Time Magazine Archive
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