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The establishment of the I2U2 forum represents a new kind of international politics in an era of transition a politics defined by pragmatism and diversified partnerships and conducted through an array of flexible minilateral platforms. This article situates the formation of this new grouping within the Biden administration’s broader effort to elaborate its US Indo-Pacific Strategy and reframe US engagement with the Middle East/West Asia. It argues that long-term US interests would be better served at this nascent stage of the group’s development by exercising patient resolve than by seeking prematurely to expand its membership or pressing to endow it with a military security purpose.
By no means though have the Arab states abandoned the Palestinian cause, which will continue to haunt them and Israel until an independent Palestinian state is established.
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