Word: kyoto
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...current coalition, but there's no sign that the President's newfound multilateralism applies to anything other than fighting terrorism. Washington still opposes the establishment of the International Criminal Court, still refuses to support the Biological Weapons Convention and has yet to propose a credible alternative to the Kyoto accord on greenhouse gases. Then there are the old problems: the Middle East peace process, Kashmir, Chechnya, poverty and disease in Africa, human-rights abuses in China...
...other words, international institutions are coming back into style—not because the U.S. wants to please other nations and to show that we’re a team player, or because bin Laden is nursing a secret grudge about the death penalty and the Kyoto Accords, but because we have become painfully aware of our vulnerability and the need for some collective security of our own. Just as NATO has for the first time invoked its mutual defense clause, that an attack on one state is an attack on all, we have suddenly realized that an abuse...
...economic planning in the wake of the terrorist attacks. What if the destruction of Sept. 11 had never happened? Bush would still be pushing to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. He would still be turning away from the U.N. and declining to sign treaties such as the Kyoto Protocol, the Small Arms Ban and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. The current crisis has limited Bush’s ability to go astray on other policy issues for now, but I’d wager that in three months, he’ll be back to his usual tricks...
International relations should be based on reciprocity. Dealings with the U.S., however, have become a one-way street. In his first days as President, George W. Bush threatened to unilaterally nullify both the Antiballistic Missile Treaty and the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. And even as he pushed through a $1.35 trillion tax cut at home, he balked at paying the $1.5 billion the U.S. owes the United Nations in membership dues...