European Union
July/August 2019
Volume 44
Number 4
NZIR
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Poland’s EU membership: seized opportunities
Zbigniew Gniatkowski outlines the benefits Poland has enjoyed since joining the European Union in 2014
Brexit: the need to think again
Rita Ricketts considers the current state of the United Kingdom’s bid to leave the European Union, especially in light of the recent European Parliament elections
Thwarted aspirations: Catalonia from Versailles to Brussels
Marçal Sanmartí suggests that Catalonia faces the same barriers to secession that it did at the end of the First World War
Reflections on the Sunshine Policy
Ian McGibbon discusses on-going efforts to secure an inter-Korea rapprochement
New Zealand–Japan relations in uncertain times
Bethan Greener examines the way ahead for New Zealand in dealing with a designated key future partner
Negotiating turbulent waters
Ken Ross reflects on the place of the Paris legation in ending the Paddy Costello diplomatic saga
ANNIVERSARY
75 years since Bretton Woods
Malcolm McKinnon reflects on changes in the global monetary and financial system, and New Zealand’s place in it, since the ground-breaking Bretton Woods conference of July 1944.
BOOKS
David Dufty: The Secret Code-Breakers of Central Bureau: How Australia’s Signals-Intelligence Network Helped Win the Pacific War (Rhys Ball).
Lucien Bianco: Stalin and Mao: A Comparison of the Russian and Chinese Revolutions (Peter Harris).
Terry Kinloch: Godley, The man behind the myth (Ian McGibbon).
CORRESPONDENCE
CONFERENCE REPORT
A fruitful Japan–New Zealand dialogue
Ian McGibbon reports on a recent meeting between the Japan and New Zealand institutes of international affairs.
INSTITUTE NOTES
The National Council meeting.
Poland’s EU membership: seized opportunities
Zbigniew Gniatkowski outlines the benefits Poland has enjoyed since joining the European Union in 2014
Brexit: the need to think again
Rita Ricketts considers the current state of the United Kingdom’s bid to leave the European Union, especially in light of the recent European Parliament elections
Thwarted aspirations: Catalonia from Versailles to Brussels
Marçal Sanmartí suggests that Catalonia faces the same barriers to secession that it did at the end of the First World War
Reflections on the Sunshine Policy
Ian McGibbon discusses on-going efforts to secure an inter-Korea rapprochement
New Zealand–Japan relations in uncertain times
Bethan Greener examines the way ahead for New Zealand in dealing with a designated key future partner
Negotiating turbulent waters
Ken Ross reflects on the place of the Paris legation in ending the Paddy Costello diplomatic saga
ANNIVERSARY
75 years since Bretton Woods
Malcolm McKinnon reflects on changes in the global monetary and financial system, and New Zealand’s place in it, since the ground-breaking Bretton Woods conference of July 1944.
BOOKS
David Dufty: The Secret Code-Breakers of Central Bureau: How Australia’s Signals-Intelligence Network Helped Win the Pacific War (Rhys Ball).
Lucien Bianco: Stalin and Mao: A Comparison of the Russian and Chinese Revolutions (Peter Harris).
Terry Kinloch: Godley, The man behind the myth (Ian McGibbon).
CORRESPONDENCE
CONFERENCE REPORT
A fruitful Japan–New Zealand dialogue
Ian McGibbon reports on a recent meeting between the Japan and New Zealand institutes of international affairs.
INSTITUTE NOTES
The National Council meeting.
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