Alliance politics across the Indo-Pacific: an offensive realist analysis of the QUAD’s transformation

The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (QUAD) was first initiated by the United States, Japan, Australia, and India in 2007 but did not succeed and was quickly deactivated. Ten years later, the QUAD was revived in 2017 and has been reinvented by the four powers into an informal alliance. Adopting the t...

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Realism
Regions
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