Interview on air-links to Asia and New Zealanders perceptions of Asians

You can listen here to my live interview with Susan Wood of NewstalkZB (between 07:30 and 10:43) on the new air links to Asia and New Zealanders’ perceptions of Asians.

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Mind the gap: Australia and New Zealand’s views of Asia

Here is my take, to Lowy Institute’s blog, of the differences between Australia’s and New Zealand’s views of Asia.

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Being a good neighbour

My new chapter ‘Being a good neighbour’: New Zealand and Track Two Diplomacy in Southeast Asia‘ has just been published in Public Participation in Foreign Policy, edited by James Headley, Joe Burton and Andreas Reitzig, published by Palgrave Macmllan.

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Review of Ramachandra’s ‘Subverting Global Myths’

My review of Vinoth Ramachandra’s Subverting Global Myths: Theology and Public Issues Shaping our World appears in the latest issue of TSCF’s Canvas magazine, on page 22. The full issue is online here

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Review of Wesley’s ‘There goes the neighbourhood’

In the latest New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, 13 (2), December 2011, I review Lowy Institute’s Michael Wesley’s recent book There goes the neighbourhood: Australia and the rise of Asia.

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US-Sino relations a recurring theme at talks in China and Vietnam

I have recently returned from Track II dialogues in China and Vietnam, where US-Sino relations were a common thread of conversation. My summary of the dialogues is online here.

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ASEAN-NZ relations commentary in Korean MOFAT publication

My commentary on ASEAN-NZ relations, published in the October issue of the ASEAN Monthly Commentary, has just been translated into Korean and is now online.

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Why President Obama was wrong in Australia

There has been much said about Obama’s speech in Darwin last week, including a fair amount of criticism about the substance and symbolism of his comments. I put in my two-cents worth here on a matter that, as far as I’m aware, no one else has yet picked up on.

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ASEAN – New Zealand relations

A brief article I wrote on ASEAN – New Zealand relations has just been published in the October issue of ASEAN Monthly Commentary, (pp.3-4).

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What New Zealanders think of India and Indians

I analyse New Zealanders’ attitudes to India and Indians in an article published in the Communication Journal of New Zealand, 12 (1), 2011, called “They do not lead sanitary lives”, now online.

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