A significant part of the internationalization efforts regarding emerging countries or middle powers seems to be about their efficiency in amplifying international cooperation. Although many regimes have been benefiting from creating new partnerships, there is a visible effect from the cooperative architectures built from some core strategies of the participant states. In the Global South, cooperation has also been a way to achieve significance as state reputation is about confidence-building. Besides, there has been a misapprehension of the direct and indirect paybacks associated with those cooperation architectures either within Southern actors or North and South ones. Noticeably, interdependencies in various sectors have been leveraging diversification in participation in environments such as the maritime. Thus, sectorized cooperation architectures are not always the result of national strategic planning and, since different agents mobilize them from the bottom side of the chain, their effect is usually unknown or invisible.

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