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Federica D’Alessandra
Research
Conceptualizing Great Power Perpetrators
Leveraging alternative mechanisms within the prevailing multilateral system might be the best—if not currently the only—viable approach to confronting, curbing, and countering great power abuse.
Published on Nov 1, 2024
About the Author
Federica D’Alessandra
Nonresident Scholar, Global Order and Institutions Program
Federica D’Alessandra is a nonresident scholar with the Global Order and Institutions Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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