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new phenomenon. Early dissatisfaction with the Security Council, where action was usually blocked by the Soviet veto, was extended to the General Assembly once majority control of that body passed to Third World states, and in the 1970s the image of the United Nations as an uncongenial forum for the successful pursuit of United States political and economic foreign policy goals gave way to an even more negative view that it was a body generally hostile to United States and Western interests. Since President Reagan took office in 1981 there have been clear indications of a rejection of multilateralism in a number of important issue-areas: refusal to sign the Law of the Sea Convention; withdrawal from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization; reduction of United States contributions to United Nations programmes; cancellation of acceptance of the compulsory jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice (icj); and withdrawal from the proceedings of the court in the Nicaragua case. And while the United States has looked to its allies, particularly fellow members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, for support in various foreign policy initiatives, it has also shown a propensity to take unilateral action, using economic, political, and even military means

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