Tag Archives: Asia

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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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 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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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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In Asia, is New Zealand better with Australia?

Read my latest post on the Lowy Institute’s blog as I tease out the notion, held by many thinkers in the region, that, in Asia, New Zealand is better with Australia.

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Interview with Daljit Singh on ASEAN’s view of NZ in Asia

Listen here to an interview I had with Daljit Singh, Senior Fellow at ISEAS, on his report on ASEAN’s perspective of New Zealand’s place in Asia.

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Rugby diplomacy

Here’s my take on what the Rugby World Cup might mean for New Zealand’s diplomacy, on the blog of the Lowy Institute for International Policy.

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Demography, Diaspora and Diplomacy: NZ’s Challenges in Asia

My recent article, in the latest issue of New Zealand Population Review (Vol.36, pp.137-157), is now online here.

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Registration now open for Kiwimade Preaching forums

You can now view the programmes and register online for the Kiwimade Preaching forums in Auckland, Waikanae or Christchurch. I will be addressing the question at the Waikanae forum on ‘who is the Kiwi in Kiwi-made?’ At the forum there will … Continue reading

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