Research Analyst Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Ms Simran Walia’s article ‘The Squad and the Quad: 2 Tracks of Security Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific’ has been published in ‘The Diplomat’ on 04 November 2026.
The Squad should be understood not as a replacement for the Quad but as an expression of the Indo-Pacific’s increasingly layered security architecture.
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