Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting
July/August 2018
Volume 43
Number 4
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The royalty Commonwealth summit: London, 2018
David McIntyre comments on the first Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting to be held in Britain for twenty years.
Size is not the issue
Maire Leadbeater examines New Zealand’s defence ties with Indonesia and its failing of the victims of human rights abuses in East Timor and West Papua.
With such good news, why take a risk?
Peter Harris discusses the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of China.
Whither European unity?
Andrew Wierzbicki argues the case for the European Union, decries the damage done by Brexit and emphasises the importance of Europe for New Zealand.
Encouraging closer ties with Latin America
Fletcher Tabuteau reflects on his recent visit to key states in western South America.
Myanmar today: democracy or demagoguery?
Ross Wilson discusses the difficulties confronting Aung San Suu Kyi in dealing with the crisis in Rakhine state.
ANNIVERSARY
The Fourteen Points at 100: Woodrow Wilson's legacy scorned
Roberto Rabel recalls the expression in 1918 of a presidential vision very different to that now emanating from Washington.
STUDENT PERSPECTIVE
Towards an ‘absolute’ prohibition on torture
Jessica Sutton discusses new challenges for international humanitarian law in a changing world.
COMMENT
New Caledonia 1987–88
Russell Marshall sets the record straight on his role in pressing France to deal with the status of its South Pacific colony.
BOOKS
Anne-Marie Brady: China as a Polar Great Power (Reuben Steff).
John Pomfret: The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom, America and China, 1776 to the Present (Peter Harris).
Jürgen Tampke: A Perfidious Distortion of History, The Versailles Peace Treaty and the Success of the Nazis (Ian McGibbon).
INSTITUTE NOTES
OBITUARY
Constance Ellen (Connie) Lawn ONZM
The royalty Commonwealth summit: London, 2018
David McIntyre comments on the first Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting to be held in Britain for twenty years.
Size is not the issue
Maire Leadbeater examines New Zealand’s defence ties with Indonesia and its failing of the victims of human rights abuses in East Timor and West Papua.
With such good news, why take a risk?
Peter Harris discusses the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of China.
Whither European unity?
Andrew Wierzbicki argues the case for the European Union, decries the damage done by Brexit and emphasises the importance of Europe for New Zealand.
Encouraging closer ties with Latin America
Fletcher Tabuteau reflects on his recent visit to key states in western South America.
Myanmar today: democracy or demagoguery?
Ross Wilson discusses the difficulties confronting Aung San Suu Kyi in dealing with the crisis in Rakhine state.
ANNIVERSARY
The Fourteen Points at 100: Woodrow Wilson's legacy scorned
Roberto Rabel recalls the expression in 1918 of a presidential vision very different to that now emanating from Washington.
STUDENT PERSPECTIVE
Towards an ‘absolute’ prohibition on torture
Jessica Sutton discusses new challenges for international humanitarian law in a changing world.
COMMENT
New Caledonia 1987–88
Russell Marshall sets the record straight on his role in pressing France to deal with the status of its South Pacific colony.
BOOKS
Anne-Marie Brady: China as a Polar Great Power (Reuben Steff).
John Pomfret: The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom, America and China, 1776 to the Present (Peter Harris).
Jürgen Tampke: A Perfidious Distortion of History, The Versailles Peace Treaty and the Success of the Nazis (Ian McGibbon).
INSTITUTE NOTES
OBITUARY
Constance Ellen (Connie) Lawn ONZM
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