Australia needs a new strategy to direct its foreign policy in order to seize new opportunities and increase its security through strength before the strategic window closes and it runs out of luck. The significance of geopolitical changes and geostrategic shifts call for a rethink of Australian foreign policy: the 2017 White Paper is the starting point, not the end. Discussions on a so-called Plan B for Australia’s foreign, security, and defence policy, is slowly but steadily gathering shape.
