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Unable to deal with North Korea and Iraq at the same time , and divided over whether to do a deal with Pyongyang or to pursue regime change to end its nuclear threat , the administration wrapped itself in the flag of multilateralism . We are pained to find that despite talk of multilateralism and open regionalism layers of preferentiality confront our exporters in trading blocs all over the world . It 's also worth noting that colonialism was capable , in a sense , of multilateralism - - insofar as the domination of particular regions by particular powers was often determined not unilaterally but through international summits such as the 1885 Berlin Conference , in which Africa was carved up among the various European states by mutual consent . Several points about this phenomenal success deserve noting in connection with the role of multilateralism .