As Nuclear Negotiations Show, US Bilateral Deal-Making is No Substitute for Multilateralism
The US is steadily pulling back from multilateral diplomacy, a shift increasingly visible across key international forums, suggest Joyce Hakmeh and Marion Messmer in their
Chatham House article. Under the Trump administration, the US is actively pursuing bilateral rather than multilateral diplomacy to address major foreign policy challenges such as the war on Ukraine and the risk of Iran’s nuclear proliferation. States increasingly disagree over the slow pace at which the nuclear weapons states in the treaty are disarming, and the difficulty that non-nuclear weapons states have in accessing peaceful nuclear technologies. It is therefore crucial that the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) review conference in 2026 is set up for success, recognizing that the role of the US in building consensus will be key.
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