“…The international relations literature (Rosecrance & Stein, 1973 ;Makins & Nye, 1976 ;Keohane & Nye, 1977 ;Moravcsik, 1993Moravcsik, , 1997Young, 2019 ;Bellamy, 2019 ) provides us with an insightful, but not necessarily coherent, elaboration on how to defi ne interdependence in studies related to multi-and bilateral interstate relations. Some scholars have claimed that international interdependence can promote peaceful coexistence (Keohane & Nye, 1977 ) and enable faster institutionalisation of multilateralism.…”