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"Many participants at the Pacific Islands Forum in Palau this week would like
to talk about anything but great power rivalry: transnational crime, energy
security, climate change, development finance, seabed minerals, transport
links.
Instead, the meeting has been pulled toward the question that now shadows every
Pacific regional gathering: what happens when the world’s great powers decide
your part of the world is strategically important?
The answer does not have to involve choosing between them. For the Pacific’s
small states, a more useful approach could be to seek shelter collectively.
Shelter theory was developed to explain a basic problem of small-state
politics: countries with limited military, economic and diplomatic resources
cannot provide everything they need for themselves.
They can instead choose to get collective protection and support from
international and regional institutions or a larger power.
In the Pacific, sheltering together is becoming painfully urgent."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
