Foreign Policy
July/August 2017
Volume 42
Number 4
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Promoting the New Zealand brand
Murray McCully reflects on his eight-and-a-half-year stint as New Zealand’s foreign minister.
An inspiring opportunity
Swiss diplomat Flavio Milan describes his experience while embedded in New Zealand’s UN Security Council team for two years.
A very complicated business
Ken Ross outlines the ‘horse-trading’ behind Alister McIntosh not becoming Commonwealth secretary-general in 1965.
What does the future hold for the United Nations?
Terence O’Brien provides a brief selective view of some of the layers of change around the world that are challenging the UN system.
Blame it on Grotius
John Goodman reflects on the legacy of the Dutch moralist Hugo Grotius in the evolution of International law.
Climate change or climate catastrophe?
Hugh Steadman warns that immediate action is demanded to meet the threat posed by global warming.
Regional security: challenges and opportunities
Mark Mitchell outlines New Zealand’s approach to security in the Asia–Pacific region and promises that it will remain outward looking and engaged.
COMMENT
Fighting global poverty
Annette Dixon suggests that New Zealand has much to offer the world in the field of global development.
BOOKS
Xavier Márquez: Non-Democratic Politics: Authoritarianism, Dictatorship and Democratization (Malcolm McKinnon).
N. Ganesan (ed): Bilateral Legacies in East and Southeast Asia (Thitinan Pongsudhirak).
Ian McGibbon: New Zealand’s Western Front Campaign (John Moremon)
Haidi Willmot, Ralph Mamiya, Scott Sheeran, and Marc Weller (eds): Protection of Civilians (Maria A. Pozza).
OBITUARIES
Dame Margaret Laurence Salas DBE, QSO; Neville Hugo Sale Judd CVO, QSO
Promoting the New Zealand brand
Murray McCully reflects on his eight-and-a-half-year stint as New Zealand’s foreign minister.
An inspiring opportunity
Swiss diplomat Flavio Milan describes his experience while embedded in New Zealand’s UN Security Council team for two years.
A very complicated business
Ken Ross outlines the ‘horse-trading’ behind Alister McIntosh not becoming Commonwealth secretary-general in 1965.
What does the future hold for the United Nations?
Terence O’Brien provides a brief selective view of some of the layers of change around the world that are challenging the UN system.
Blame it on Grotius
John Goodman reflects on the legacy of the Dutch moralist Hugo Grotius in the evolution of International law.
Climate change or climate catastrophe?
Hugh Steadman warns that immediate action is demanded to meet the threat posed by global warming.
Regional security: challenges and opportunities
Mark Mitchell outlines New Zealand’s approach to security in the Asia–Pacific region and promises that it will remain outward looking and engaged.
COMMENT
Fighting global poverty
Annette Dixon suggests that New Zealand has much to offer the world in the field of global development.
BOOKS
Xavier Márquez: Non-Democratic Politics: Authoritarianism, Dictatorship and Democratization (Malcolm McKinnon).
N. Ganesan (ed): Bilateral Legacies in East and Southeast Asia (Thitinan Pongsudhirak).
Ian McGibbon: New Zealand’s Western Front Campaign (John Moremon)
Haidi Willmot, Ralph Mamiya, Scott Sheeran, and Marc Weller (eds): Protection of Civilians (Maria A. Pozza).
OBITUARIES
Dame Margaret Laurence Salas DBE, QSO; Neville Hugo Sale Judd CVO, QSO
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