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
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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