The macro-strategies have included, first, attempts to diversify our relations abroad, and especially our economic relations; and second, attempts to get as much of the bargaining and the politics as possible into multilateral arenas, some of them permanently institutionalized and some not, so that we won't be in the ring, as it were, with the Americans all by ourselves.
Les macro-stratégies comprenaient, d'abord, des tentatives visant à diversifier nos relations à l'étranger, surtout au plan économique et, deuxièmement, des tentatives visant à obtenir le plus possible des négociations et des politiques dans les arènes multilatérales dont certaines sont institutionnalisées de façon permanente et d'autres non.