New Zealand - China
March/April 2019
Volume 44
Number 2
NZIR
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New Zealand’s China — past, present and future
John McKinnon discusses the changing basis of the relationship and calls for transparency and consistency in our dealings with the emerging economic giant.
Disputes and diplomacy in the South China Sea
Stephen Hoadley suggests that longer-term resolutions of fundamental disagreements in a key geo-strategic area remain elusive and are probably unachievable.
Donald Trump, populism and the shallow roots of American internationalism
Roberto Rabel reflects on the US president’s ‘America First’ approach to international affairs
Trumpism as anti-post-modernism
Dmitry Shlapentokh discusses the constructed reality that he perceives underpinning the American economy.
Endeavours of the mind: the soft power of Oceania
Rita Ricketts reviews an exhibition that has recently been held in London and Paris.
Advancing nuclear disarmament through the CTBT
Lassina Zerbo discusses a verifiable and enforceable prohibition on nuclear testing 60 years in the making.
Assessing Fiji’s recent general election
Michael Potts comments on the November 2018 vote that he observed as part of a multinational observer group.
ANNIVERSARY
Still vital: NATO at 70
Roberto Rabel notes the anniversary of the treaty that has underpinned Western security for seven decades.
BOOKS
Thomas Schmidinger: Rojava: Revolution, War and the Future of Syria’s Kurds (Hossein (Jiyar) Aghapouri).
David E. Sanger: The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age (Anthony Smith).
Susan Woodhouse: Garfield Todd: The End of the Liberal Dream in Rhodesia (Stephen Chan).
INSTITUTE NOTES
OBITUARY
Guilford (Giff) Montgomerie-Davidson CNZM, OBE, JP.
New Zealand’s China — past, present and future
John McKinnon discusses the changing basis of the relationship and calls for transparency and consistency in our dealings with the emerging economic giant.
Disputes and diplomacy in the South China Sea
Stephen Hoadley suggests that longer-term resolutions of fundamental disagreements in a key geo-strategic area remain elusive and are probably unachievable.
Donald Trump, populism and the shallow roots of American internationalism
Roberto Rabel reflects on the US president’s ‘America First’ approach to international affairs
Trumpism as anti-post-modernism
Dmitry Shlapentokh discusses the constructed reality that he perceives underpinning the American economy.
Endeavours of the mind: the soft power of Oceania
Rita Ricketts reviews an exhibition that has recently been held in London and Paris.
Advancing nuclear disarmament through the CTBT
Lassina Zerbo discusses a verifiable and enforceable prohibition on nuclear testing 60 years in the making.
Assessing Fiji’s recent general election
Michael Potts comments on the November 2018 vote that he observed as part of a multinational observer group.
ANNIVERSARY
Still vital: NATO at 70
Roberto Rabel notes the anniversary of the treaty that has underpinned Western security for seven decades.
BOOKS
Thomas Schmidinger: Rojava: Revolution, War and the Future of Syria’s Kurds (Hossein (Jiyar) Aghapouri).
David E. Sanger: The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age (Anthony Smith).
Susan Woodhouse: Garfield Todd: The End of the Liberal Dream in Rhodesia (Stephen Chan).
INSTITUTE NOTES
OBITUARY
Guilford (Giff) Montgomerie-Davidson CNZM, OBE, JP.
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