Paddy Costello
November/December 2017
Volume 42
Number 6
NZIR
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Alister McIntosh’s ‘best’ diplomat
Ken Ross argues that that Paddy Costello was never a Soviet agent, as often alleged, but was in fact one of New Zealand’s most brilliant foreign service officials.
Esprit de contradiction
Rita Ricketts reviews MI5’s evolving case against Costello, as revealed in his recently released file in the British archives.
The MI5 verdict
Ian McGibbon outlines what Paddy Costello’s recently opened MI5 file indicates about why British counter-espionage concluded that he was a Soviet agent.
A modern French Revolution
Emma Nichols discusses the implications of Emmanuel Macron’s ascent to power in France.
New Zealand’s strategic context: one or many scenarios?
Stephen Hoadley sketches the six strategic scenarios that are likely to challenge New Zealand in the coming years.
Overseeing New Zealand’s modern military operations
Rhys Ball and Wil Hoverd discuss the implications for democracy and national security of the deployment of special operations forces.
Adjusting to political earthquakes
Terence O’Brien provides a New Zealand view of the current geopolitical landscape.
BOOKS
Dalia F. Fahmy and Daanish Faruqi (eds): Egypt and the Contradictions of Liberism: Illiberal Intelligenstia and the Future of Egyptian Democracy (William Shepard).
Lynne Olson: Last Hope Island: Britain, Occupied Europe, and the Brotherhood that Helped Turn the Tide of War (Anthony Smith).
Antje Missbach: Troubled Transit, Asylum Seekers Stuck in Indonesia (Andrew Butcher).
Alister McIntosh’s ‘best’ diplomat
Ken Ross argues that that Paddy Costello was never a Soviet agent, as often alleged, but was in fact one of New Zealand’s most brilliant foreign service officials.
Esprit de contradiction
Rita Ricketts reviews MI5’s evolving case against Costello, as revealed in his recently released file in the British archives.
The MI5 verdict
Ian McGibbon outlines what Paddy Costello’s recently opened MI5 file indicates about why British counter-espionage concluded that he was a Soviet agent.
A modern French Revolution
Emma Nichols discusses the implications of Emmanuel Macron’s ascent to power in France.
New Zealand’s strategic context: one or many scenarios?
Stephen Hoadley sketches the six strategic scenarios that are likely to challenge New Zealand in the coming years.
Overseeing New Zealand’s modern military operations
Rhys Ball and Wil Hoverd discuss the implications for democracy and national security of the deployment of special operations forces.
Adjusting to political earthquakes
Terence O’Brien provides a New Zealand view of the current geopolitical landscape.
BOOKS
Dalia F. Fahmy and Daanish Faruqi (eds): Egypt and the Contradictions of Liberism: Illiberal Intelligenstia and the Future of Egyptian Democracy (William Shepard).
Lynne Olson: Last Hope Island: Britain, Occupied Europe, and the Brotherhood that Helped Turn the Tide of War (Anthony Smith).
Antje Missbach: Troubled Transit, Asylum Seekers Stuck in Indonesia (Andrew Butcher).
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