Hybrid minilateralism: explaining the logic of the United States' containment of China in Indo-Pacific.
Minilateralism has recently attracted scholarly attention. Despite its importance, research on minilateralism remains underdeveloped. Existing studies sometimes fall into the trap of single attribution and focus narrowly on the reasons for the occurrence of minilateralism while downplaying its inher...
| Publicado en: | Pacific Review Vol. 38; no. 6; pp. 990 - 1020 |
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Nov2025
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