Review at Fifty
November/December 2025
Volume 50
Number 6
NZIR
NZ$35.00 (INCL. GST)
A MESSAGE FROM THE RT HON WINSTON PETERS
New Zealand International Review at 50
James Kember looks to the Review's future as it enters its second half-century.
Present at the creation
Three of those involved in founding the Review, Gavin Thompson, Bob Bunch and Andrew Wierzbicki, reflect on the origins of the magazine and its future.
The West's new headache?
Chris Ogden discusses the China-Russia-India strategic triangle.
A robust friendship
Faisal Aziz Ahmed provides an overview of Pakistan-New Zealand relations.
NATO, defence spending and the lndo-Pacific region
Hamish McDougall reports on the NATO Public Forum which he recently attended in The Hague.
Security, Europe!
Patryk Bfaszczak outlines the main challenges and achievements of the landmark European Union presidency held by Poland in the first half of 2025.
History wars
Dmitry Shlapentokh discusses a recent Chinese reconstruction of history and Central Asia's response.
BOOKS
JONATHAN BOSTON: A Radically Different World: Preparing for Climate Change (Gemma Bowker-Wright).
MARY KISLER: The Dark Dad: War and trauma - a daughter's tale (Bryan Couchman).
WILLIAM PARTLETT: Why the Russian Constitution Matters: The Constitutional Dark Arts (Greg Hurrell).
JACQUELYN SCHNEIDER AND JULIA MACDONALD: The Hand Behind Unmanned: Origins of the U.S. Autonomous Military Arsenal (Reuben Steff).
INSTITUTE NOTES
INDEX
A MESSAGE FROM THE RT HON WINSTON PETERS
New Zealand International Review at 50
James Kember looks to the Review's future as it enters its second half-century.
Present at the creation
Three of those involved in founding the Review, Gavin Thompson, Bob Bunch and Andrew Wierzbicki, reflect on the origins of the magazine and its future.
The West's new headache?
Chris Ogden discusses the China-Russia-India strategic triangle.
A robust friendship
Faisal Aziz Ahmed provides an overview of Pakistan-New Zealand relations.
NATO, defence spending and the lndo-Pacific region
Hamish McDougall reports on the NATO Public Forum which he recently attended in The Hague.
Security, Europe!
Patryk Bfaszczak outlines the main challenges and achievements of the landmark European Union presidency held by Poland in the first half of 2025.
History wars
Dmitry Shlapentokh discusses a recent Chinese reconstruction of history and Central Asia's response.
BOOKS
JONATHAN BOSTON: A Radically Different World: Preparing for Climate Change (Gemma Bowker-Wright).
MARY KISLER: The Dark Dad: War and trauma - a daughter's tale (Bryan Couchman).
WILLIAM PARTLETT: Why the Russian Constitution Matters: The Constitutional Dark Arts (Greg Hurrell).
JACQUELYN SCHNEIDER AND JULIA MACDONALD: The Hand Behind Unmanned: Origins of the U.S. Autonomous Military Arsenal (Reuben Steff).
INSTITUTE NOTES
INDEX
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