The Politics of Multilateralism

Sip: It's not so much that the logic underlying us. changes as the constraints within which that logic was operating internationally somewhat disappear, absolutely. And they disappear in a way that means that multilateralism goes from being a kind of legitimating frame to being a means. So now it's just the choice between dugo the multi lateral, which is going to get you in. Which way will you best accomplish your interest? If there's a multilateral forum that you can use, great, it's another tool in the art. But if the constraints are such that the best way to pursue interest in this or that moment, interest still imagined to be coterminus with the interests