Indo-Pacific Focus
January/February 2023
Volume 48
Number 1
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Marchons, marchons? France and the Indo-Pacific
Hamish McDougall reviews an international conference he attended recently in Paris and suggests a reappraisal of Franco-New Zealand relations.
Foreign policy: a Green perspective
Golriz Ghahraman outlines the Green Party’s approach to international relations.
Thucydidian reality in Sri Lanka
Punsara Amarasinghe comments on the August 2022 visit of the Chinese satellite tracking vessel Yuan Wang 5 to the port of Hambantota.
Fighting to live
Rita Ricketts takes issue with a recent interpretation of New Zealand’s economic strategy in response to the United Kingdom’s entry to the EEC in 1973.
Advocating for peace
Phil Twyford sets out the government’s approach to disarmament and the role in it of the New Zealand Defence Force.
Navigating choppy waves
Jeremiah Manele outlines Solomon Islands’ foreign policy objectives and relationship with New Zealand.
External Affairs’ crucial month in wartime London
Ken Ross outlines how Alister McIntosh picked up the departmental baton at Downing Street and the Savoy in May 1944.
ANNIVERSARY
New Zealand’s China recognition decision
Ian McGibbon notes the 50th anniversary of New Zealand’s recognition of the People’s Republic of China.
BOOKS
Stephen Levine (ed): Politics in a Pandemic: Jacinda Ardern and New Zealand’s 2020 Election (Tim Fadgen).
Robert Sackville-West: The Searchers: The Quest for the Lost of the First World War (Bryan Couchman).
INSTITUTE NOTES
Marchons, marchons? France and the Indo-Pacific
Hamish McDougall reviews an international conference he attended recently in Paris and suggests a reappraisal of Franco-New Zealand relations.
Foreign policy: a Green perspective
Golriz Ghahraman outlines the Green Party’s approach to international relations.
Thucydidian reality in Sri Lanka
Punsara Amarasinghe comments on the August 2022 visit of the Chinese satellite tracking vessel Yuan Wang 5 to the port of Hambantota.
Fighting to live
Rita Ricketts takes issue with a recent interpretation of New Zealand’s economic strategy in response to the United Kingdom’s entry to the EEC in 1973.
Advocating for peace
Phil Twyford sets out the government’s approach to disarmament and the role in it of the New Zealand Defence Force.
Navigating choppy waves
Jeremiah Manele outlines Solomon Islands’ foreign policy objectives and relationship with New Zealand.
External Affairs’ crucial month in wartime London
Ken Ross outlines how Alister McIntosh picked up the departmental baton at Downing Street and the Savoy in May 1944.
ANNIVERSARY
New Zealand’s China recognition decision
Ian McGibbon notes the 50th anniversary of New Zealand’s recognition of the People’s Republic of China.
BOOKS
Stephen Levine (ed): Politics in a Pandemic: Jacinda Ardern and New Zealand’s 2020 Election (Tim Fadgen).
Robert Sackville-West: The Searchers: The Quest for the Lost of the First World War (Bryan Couchman).
INSTITUTE NOTES
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