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Robert G. PatmanThe Conversation |
Winston Peters says New Zealand foreign policy should address “the world as it is, not how we wish it would be”. But how viable is that really?
On the 25th anniversary of 9/11, many of the forces now shaping NZ foreign policy can be traced back to how the US responded to the terror attacks.
By appealing to international law and a ‘rules-based’ order, but not opposing the US-Israeli action, the government appears caught in the...
The US intervention in Venezuela makes it clear NZ’s ‘softly softly’ foreign policy isn’t a feasible long-term response to a shifting world order.
The new US National Security Strategy marks a historic break – and a problem for the NZ government’s policy of closer strategic alignment with...
By not joining its close allies over the question of Palestinian statehood, NZ risks being ‘on the wrong side of history’.