Original sentence: A similar reaction against bilateral trade agreements occurred after the Great Depression, when it was argued that such agreements helped to produce a cycle of rising tariffs that deepened the economic downturn.Bilateralism has a flexibility and ease that is lacking in most compromise-dependent multilateral systems.Despite the high profile of modern multilateral systems such as the United Nations and the World Trade Organization, most effective diplomacy is still done at the bilateral level.Examples of this include treaties between two countries, exchanges of ambassadors, and state visits.The first rejection of bilateralism came after the First World War, when many politicians concluded that the complex pre-war system of bilateral treaties had made war all but inevitable.This article is about the political term; for the term as used in biology, see Bilateral symmetry.Thus, after the Second World War, the West turned to multilateral agreements such as GATT
Edited sentence: A similar reaction against bilateral trade agreements occurred after the Great Depression, where it was argued that they helped produce a cycle of rising tariffs that deepened the downturn.Bilateralism has a flexibility and ease the compromise dependent multilateral systems lack.Despite the high profile of modern multilateral systems such as the United Nations and the World Trade Organization most effective diplomacy is still done at the bilateral level.Examples of this include treaties between two countries, exchanges of ambassadors, and state visits, among other things.The first rejection of bilateralism as dangerous came after the First World War when many thought that the complex series of bilateral treaties had made war all but inevitable.Thus after the Second World War the west turned to multilateral agreements such as GATT