ISSUE 20, FEBRUARY 2024

AUSTRALIAN FOREIGN AFFAIRS

Contributors 2 Editor’s Note 3

Hugh White Fatal Shores 6 Susannah Patton Widening the Gap 51 Elizabeth Buchanan

Pit Stop Power 69 Andrew Davies

Sunk Costs 87

The Fix

Hervé Lemahieu on How Australia Can Unleash Its Own “Brussels Effect”

in the Pacific Island Region 101

Reviews

Jack Corbett Divided Isles: Solomon Islands and the China Switch by Edward Acton Cavanough 110

Paul Monk The Echidna Strategy: Australia’s Search for Power and Peace by Sam Roggeveen 114

Correspondence “Usual Suspects”: Albert Zhang, Jieh-Yung Lo;

response by Yun Jiang 117

The Back Page 128