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Article: Directions in multilateral security cooperation.(Opinion/Editorial)
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- Manila Bulletin
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- January 5, 2001
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IN addition, the Philippines and the United States will be having more periodic consultations on broader regional security policy. Since the Gulf War of 1990, Washington has resorted increasingly to international coalition building and multilateral security cooperation when confronting security threats to its alliances. Americans want their ..... Cold-War peace dividend. They believe that the allies should now take greater responsibility for common security, with primary emphasis on their own regions.
Washington's backing for Canberra's lead role in East Timor reflects this kind of thinking. The West generally saw East Timor as a regional rather than as an ...