Pacific Competition

May/June 2024

Volume 49 Number 3

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Navigating geopolitical competition in the Pacific

Iati Iati provides a guide for emerging regional actors in the growing contest in the Pacific Islands countries.

Beyond polarisation?

A conversation between Malcolm McKinnon and Ann Beaglehole on the Israel–Hamas conflict.

The greatest opportunity

Olga Dodd discusses Ukraine’s economic development, reconstruction needs and investment opportunities.

The Quad on a roll

Ashok Sharma suggests that the four-power dialogue arrangement provides a robust strategy for a free, open and secure Indo-Pacific region.

Poland takes a new path

Andrew Wierzbicki interviews Polish Under-secretary of State Andrzej Szeptycki during his recent visit to New Zealand.

COMMENT

AUKUS from an armchair

Scott Thomson reflects on the implications of the AUKUS submarine project and the new Australian partnership with the United Kingdom.

BOOKS

William Hoverd and Deidre Ann McDonald (eds): State of Threat: The Challenges to Aotearoa New Zealand’s National Security (Nicholas Ross Smith).

Margaret Lovell-Smith: ‘I Don’t Believe in Murder’: Standing Up for Peace in World War I Canterbury (Steven Loveridge).

I.F. Stone: The Hidden History of the Korean War: New Edition (Stephen Hoadley).

OBITUARY

Gerald Christopher Philip Hensley CNZM (Simon Murdoch).

INSTITUTE NOTES

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Navigating geopolitical competition in the Pacific

Iati Iati provides a guide for emerging regional actors in the growing contest in the Pacific Islands countries.

Beyond polarisation?

A conversation between Malcolm McKinnon and Ann Beaglehole on the Israel–Hamas conflict.

The greatest opportunity

Olga Dodd discusses Ukraine’s economic development, reconstruction needs and investment opportunities.

The Quad on a roll

Ashok Sharma suggests that the four-power dialogue arrangement provides a robust strategy for a free, open and secure Indo-Pacific region.

Poland takes a new path

Andrew Wierzbicki interviews Polish Under-secretary of State Andrzej Szeptycki during his recent visit to New Zealand.

COMMENT

AUKUS from an armchair

Scott Thomson reflects on the implications of the AUKUS submarine project and the new Australian partnership with the United Kingdom.

BOOKS

William Hoverd and Deidre Ann McDonald (eds): State of Threat: The Challenges to Aotearoa New Zealand’s National Security (Nicholas Ross Smith).

Margaret Lovell-Smith: ‘I Don’t Believe in Murder’: Standing Up for Peace in World War I Canterbury (Steven Loveridge).

I.F. Stone: The Hidden History of the Korean War: New Edition (Stephen Hoadley).

OBITUARY

Gerald Christopher Philip Hensley CNZM (Simon Murdoch).

INSTITUTE NOTES

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