New Zealand Diplomacy

January/February 2019

Volume 44 Number 1

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The case for New Zealand diplomacy

Brook Barrington outlines the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s approach to protecting and advancing New Zealand’s interests in a challenging world.

Australian perspectives on the Indo-Pacific

Frances Adamson outlines Australia’s approach to regional co-operation and relations with New Zealand.

MFAT at 75

Winston Peters lauds the achievements of the New Zealand foreign service and suggests that it needs to have the courage to take the risks required to grasp future opportunities.

Advancing a progressive trade policy

Stephen Jacobi suggests the need to ensure that trade works for all by making it more inclusive and equitable.

John Mulgan: New Zealand wants you

Ken Ross discusses one of the country’s best and brightest whose prospective diplomatic career was tragically forestalled.

CONFERENCE REPORT

An eye, an ear and a voice: New Zealand’s changing place in the world

Ian McGibbon reports on the MFAT 75th anniversary conference.

REFLECTIONS

Putting India on the radar screen

Nick Bridge continues his account of his time as New Zealand high commissioner in India.

ANNIVERSARY

Forging the short-lived ANZAXIS

Ian McGibbon notes the 75th anniversary of New Zealand’s first international agreement.

BOOKS

Thomas Frank: Rendezvous with Oblivion (Michael Appleton).

Brendan Taylor: The Four Flash Points: How Asia Goes to War (David Belgrave).

Richard McGregor: Asia's Reckoning: The Struggle for Global Dominance (Mark Pearson).

Damien Rogers: Law, Politics and the Limits of Prosecuting Mass Atrocity (Stephen Hoadley).

INSTITUTE NOTES

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The case for New Zealand diplomacy

Brook Barrington outlines the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s approach to protecting and advancing New Zealand’s interests in a challenging world.

Australian perspectives on the Indo-Pacific

Frances Adamson outlines Australia’s approach to regional co-operation and relations with New Zealand.

MFAT at 75

Winston Peters lauds the achievements of the New Zealand foreign service and suggests that it needs to have the courage to take the risks required to grasp future opportunities.

Advancing a progressive trade policy

Stephen Jacobi suggests the need to ensure that trade works for all by making it more inclusive and equitable.

John Mulgan: New Zealand wants you

Ken Ross discusses one of the country’s best and brightest whose prospective diplomatic career was tragically forestalled.

CONFERENCE REPORT

An eye, an ear and a voice: New Zealand’s changing place in the world

Ian McGibbon reports on the MFAT 75th anniversary conference.

REFLECTIONS

Putting India on the radar screen

Nick Bridge continues his account of his time as New Zealand high commissioner in India.

ANNIVERSARY

Forging the short-lived ANZAXIS

Ian McGibbon notes the 75th anniversary of New Zealand’s first international agreement.

BOOKS

Thomas Frank: Rendezvous with Oblivion (Michael Appleton).

Brendan Taylor: The Four Flash Points: How Asia Goes to War (David Belgrave).

Richard McGregor: Asia's Reckoning: The Struggle for Global Dominance (Mark Pearson).

Damien Rogers: Law, Politics and the Limits of Prosecuting Mass Atrocity (Stephen Hoadley).

INSTITUTE NOTES

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