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

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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

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