Pacific Futures
January/February 2020
Volume 45
Number 1
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CONFERENCE REPORT
Pacific futures
James Kember reports on the NZIIA’s recent conference in Auckland.
The need to keep questioning
Aupito William Sio comments on youth, media and new opportunities in relation to Pacific peoples.
Pacific resets
Gerald McGhie puts New Zealand’s current policy in its historical context and suggests ways of improving co-ordination with the islands’ countries.
Thinking the unthinkable
Hugh White suggests that the rise of China is fundamentally changing the strategic outlook in the western Pacific and undermining assumptions that have underpinned Australian defence thinking.
Are we really aiding Gaza?
Marilyn Garson discusses the effect of donor states’ actions upon Palestinian lives in the blockaded strip.
Geoffrey Cox — New Zealand diplomat
Ken Ross reflects on the brief diplomatic career of one of New Zealand’s most distinguished expatriates.
ANNIVERSARY
New Zealand’s membership of the League of Nations — independence or something else?
Malcolm McKinnon notes the centenary of New Zealand joining the first world security organisation.
BOOKS
ANNE-MARIE BRADY: Small States and the Changing Global Order: New Zealand Faces the Future (W. David McIntyre).
RICHARD A. BITZINGER and JAMES CHAR: Reshaping the Chinese Military: The PLA’s Roles and Missions in the Xi Jinping Era (Stephen Hoadley).
BRIAN LYNCH (ed): New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, An Eye, an Ear and a Voice: New Zealand's Changing Place in the World, Proceedings of the 75th Anniversary Conference (Jim Rolfe).
INSTITUTE NOTES
OBITUARIES
Dr John Trolove Henderson (Ken Ross)
Stuart William McMillan MBE (Ian McGibbon)
CONFERENCE REPORT
Pacific futures
James Kember reports on the NZIIA’s recent conference in Auckland.
The need to keep questioning
Aupito William Sio comments on youth, media and new opportunities in relation to Pacific peoples.
Pacific resets
Gerald McGhie puts New Zealand’s current policy in its historical context and suggests ways of improving co-ordination with the islands’ countries.
Thinking the unthinkable
Hugh White suggests that the rise of China is fundamentally changing the strategic outlook in the western Pacific and undermining assumptions that have underpinned Australian defence thinking.
Are we really aiding Gaza?
Marilyn Garson discusses the effect of donor states’ actions upon Palestinian lives in the blockaded strip.
Geoffrey Cox — New Zealand diplomat
Ken Ross reflects on the brief diplomatic career of one of New Zealand’s most distinguished expatriates.
ANNIVERSARY
New Zealand’s membership of the League of Nations — independence or something else?
Malcolm McKinnon notes the centenary of New Zealand joining the first world security organisation.
BOOKS
ANNE-MARIE BRADY: Small States and the Changing Global Order: New Zealand Faces the Future (W. David McIntyre).
RICHARD A. BITZINGER and JAMES CHAR: Reshaping the Chinese Military: The PLA’s Roles and Missions in the Xi Jinping Era (Stephen Hoadley).
BRIAN LYNCH (ed): New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, An Eye, an Ear and a Voice: New Zealand's Changing Place in the World, Proceedings of the 75th Anniversary Conference (Jim Rolfe).
INSTITUTE NOTES
OBITUARIES
Dr John Trolove Henderson (Ken Ross)
Stuart William McMillan MBE (Ian McGibbon)
Membership
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