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

drandrewbutcher — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:46:35 +0000

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.

Tagged: ASEAN, Asia, China

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

drandrewbutcher — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 04:14:17 +0000

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

Tagged: Australia, New Zealand, Perceptions of Asians

Being a good neighbour

drandrewbutcher — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 20:26:15 +0000

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.

Tagged: ASEAN, Asia, Foreign relations, Track II diplomacy

Review of Ramachandra’s ‘Subverting Global Myths’

drandrewbutcher — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 20:18:39 +0000

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

Review of Wesley’s ‘There goes the neighbourhood’

drandrewbutcher — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 19:42:17 +0000

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.

Tagged: Asia, Australia

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

drandrewbutcher — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 20:29:52 +0000

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.

Tagged: ASEAN, Asia, China, Foreign Affairs., New Zealand, Vietnam

ASEAN-NZ relations commentary in Korean MOFAT publication

drandrewbutcher — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 03:15:44 +0000

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.

Tagged: ASEAN, Korea, New Zealand

Why President Obama was wrong in Australia

drandrewbutcher — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:37:49 +0000

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.

Tagged: Australia, Obama

ASEAN – New Zealand relations

drandrewbutcher — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 03:32:52 +0000

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).

Tagged: ASEAN, New Zealand

What New Zealanders think of India and Indians

drandrewbutcher — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 01:53:32 +0000

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.

Tagged: Asia, Commonwealth Games, India, International relations; foreign affairs; Asia; international students, Perceptions of Asians