Conceptualizing Great Power Perpetrators

D’Alessandra, Federica

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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.

By Federica D’Alessandra

Published on Nov 1, 2024

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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.

Recent Work

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