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With the emergence of Squad, a new Pacific multilateral, the question whether the Quad should be militarised has resurfaced

From New Delhi’s perspective, these minilaterals in the Middle East offer wider geopolitical and geoeconomic connections with critical partners

গত বছর জুড়ে কোভিড–১৯ অতিমারি সামনে এনেছে এখনকার বহুপাক্�

Minilateral forums and nontraditional groupings will fill a global policy vacuum, enable deeper, nuanced debates, and help public discourse and debate

Minilaterals allow a group of countries with shared interests and values to bypass seemingly moribund frameworks, and resolve issues of common concern

Heightening great-power rivalry has impeded consensus-making in multilateral institutions. This has given rise, in recent years, to minilaterals especially in the Indo-Pacific. Even as there are criticisms that minilaterals are too informal and lacking in structures that are required for focused debates, China’s belligerence has galvanised support for, and focus within minilateral groupings in the region. Over the past year, the fallout of the

The India-France-Australia trilateral is only the latest of the many minilaterals that are taking shape in the Indo-Pacific region.

The multilateral frameworks that were established following the Second World War paved the way to strengthening global governance and international cooperation. Over the decades, however, the ability of these multilateral forums to take collective action has been hobbled by institutional inertia, vested interests, and challenges to decision-making. Minilaterals are thus being seen as an alternative route to form partnerships and coalitions “of

विश्वास जोपासण्यासाठी आणि सहकार्य वाढवण्यासाठी मनापासून प्रयत्न केले नाहीत तर ब्रिक्सचा विस्तार व्यर्थ आहे हे सांगण्याचा भारताचा प्रयत्न आहे.