Foreign Policy Reset
September/October 2025
Volume 50
Number 5
NZIR
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Navigating a contested world
Winston Peters reflects on the government's Foreign Policy Reset one year on.
Rallying for democracy
Holly Tudehope describes South Koreans' reaction to the declaration of martial law last December.
Edging towards a disaster
Aniket Aggarwal discusses the civil-military context of Pakistan's shifting nuclear doctrine.
John A. Lee: a far-sighted maverick
Martin George Holmes remembers the greatest defence minister New Zealand never had.
ESSAY PRIZE WINNER
To what extent can international law regulate war?
Maja Hassell discusses the impacts of dual ratification and legitimacy.
CONFERENCE REPORT
Foreign and trade policies in contested spaces
Ian McGibbon reports on the NZllA's recent national conference.
BOOKS
EMMANUEL CARRĂˆRE: V13, Chronicle of a Trial (James Kember).
DEREK QUIGLEY: Challenging the Status Quo, A Political Memoir (Stephen Hoadley).
ICHIMASA SUKEYUKI (ed): Review of New Horizons of the Nuclear Age (Shine Choi).
MAIRE LEADBEATER: The Enemy Within: The human cost of state surveillance in Aotearoa/New Zealand (Jim Rolfe).
INSTITUTE NOTES

Navigating a contested world
Winston Peters reflects on the government's Foreign Policy Reset one year on.
Rallying for democracy
Holly Tudehope describes South Koreans' reaction to the declaration of martial law last December.
Edging towards a disaster
Aniket Aggarwal discusses the civil-military context of Pakistan's shifting nuclear doctrine.
John A. Lee: a far-sighted maverick
Martin George Holmes remembers the greatest defence minister New Zealand never had.
ESSAY PRIZE WINNER
To what extent can international law regulate war?
Maja Hassell discusses the impacts of dual ratification and legitimacy.
CONFERENCE REPORT
Foreign and trade policies in contested spaces
Ian McGibbon reports on the NZllA's recent national conference.
BOOKS
EMMANUEL CARRĂˆRE: V13, Chronicle of a Trial (James Kember).
DEREK QUIGLEY: Challenging the Status Quo, A Political Memoir (Stephen Hoadley).
ICHIMASA SUKEYUKI (ed): Review of New Horizons of the Nuclear Age (Shine Choi).
MAIRE LEADBEATER: The Enemy Within: The human cost of state surveillance in Aotearoa/New Zealand (Jim Rolfe).
INSTITUTE NOTES
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