Foreign Policy Reset

September/October 2025

Volume 50 Number 5

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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

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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

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