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

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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

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