AUKUS Critique
September/October 2024
Volume 49
Number 5
NZIR
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The unquestioning and unthinking that is AUKUS
Michael McKinlay critiques Australia’s decision to acquire a force of nuclear-powered fast attack submarines.
Having ‘moral clarity about our values’: a message to democracies
Roberto Rabel interviews Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski.
China in 2024
John McKinnon reflects on the modern-day condition of China and its government and comments on the implications for New Zealand.
Lessons from a genocide
Colin Keating reflects on the slaughter of the Tutsi and others in Rwanda 30 years ago.
Keir Starmer: a grown-up prime minister, at last
Ken Ross reviews the advent of the United Kingdom’s new leader.
COMMENT
Eighty years on: the United Nations, new states and self determination
Malcolm McKinnon reflects on the composition of the world body and the difficulties in the way of adding new members.
ANNIVERSARY
Remembering a diplomatic milestone
Ian McGibbon notes the 70th anniversary of the Manila Pact and its significance for New Zealand’s diplomatic evolution.
BOOKS
Griffin Manawaroa Leonard, Joseph Llewellyn and Richard Jackson: Abolishing the Military: Arguments and Alternatives (Jim Rolfe).
Roger R. Reese: Russia’s Army: A History from the Napoleonic Wars to the War in Ukraine (Colin Robinson).
Stephen E. Hanson and Jeffrey S. Kopstein: The Assault on the State, How the Global Attack on Modern Government Endangers Our Future (Stephen Hoadley).
OBITUARY
Graham Keith Ansell CMG (Brian Lynch).
INSTITUTE NOTES
The unquestioning and unthinking that is AUKUS
Michael McKinlay critiques Australia’s decision to acquire a force of nuclear-powered fast attack submarines.
Having ‘moral clarity about our values’: a message to democracies
Roberto Rabel interviews Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski.
China in 2024
John McKinnon reflects on the modern-day condition of China and its government and comments on the implications for New Zealand.
Lessons from a genocide
Colin Keating reflects on the slaughter of the Tutsi and others in Rwanda 30 years ago.
Keir Starmer: a grown-up prime minister, at last
Ken Ross reviews the advent of the United Kingdom’s new leader.
COMMENT
Eighty years on: the United Nations, new states and self determination
Malcolm McKinnon reflects on the composition of the world body and the difficulties in the way of adding new members.
ANNIVERSARY
Remembering a diplomatic milestone
Ian McGibbon notes the 70th anniversary of the Manila Pact and its significance for New Zealand’s diplomatic evolution.
BOOKS
Griffin Manawaroa Leonard, Joseph Llewellyn and Richard Jackson: Abolishing the Military: Arguments and Alternatives (Jim Rolfe).
Roger R. Reese: Russia’s Army: A History from the Napoleonic Wars to the War in Ukraine (Colin Robinson).
Stephen E. Hanson and Jeffrey S. Kopstein: The Assault on the State, How the Global Attack on Modern Government Endangers Our Future (Stephen Hoadley).
OBITUARY
Graham Keith Ansell CMG (Brian Lynch).
INSTITUTE NOTES
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