May 18, 2015
New Zealand’s military re-alignment with the United States opens us to expectations that we would support the United States should major disputes or armed conflict build up between it and China (our biggest trading partner).
October 7, 2012
The greatest value of the visit by United States’ Secretary of Defence Leon Panetta may to be to sharpen New Zealand’s appreciation of the need for coherent and constructive Asia-Pacific policy-making
April 8, 2012
Feeling continually pressured to make choices between rival giants looks like a no win path for a small country
March 11, 2012
BBC correspondent James Reynolds says Iran nuclear issue talks in Geneva in 2010, and Istanbul in January 2011 “were essentially parallel monologues.” Could antipodean New Zealand offer some low-key but effective communication-building?
February 18, 2012
“The very fact of New Zealand being an anglophile outpost in Asia-Pacific makes it possible to search for strategies of niche diplomacy…. as interlocutors between Asia-Pacific and the West.” Ramesh Thakur, 1992
December 31, 2011
New Zealand diplomats with nuclear-free peacemaking credentials based already in Tehran, Washington, London, and Europe could right now begin...
October 10, 2009
"To the extent that there is great cultural-cum-demographic diversity in Asia and New Zealanders are not Asians, we can be equidistant from the regional fault-lines and can help in the safer management of these fault-lines." (Ramesh Thakur - Time to Befriend the Asian Tigers). How might New Zealand start to get into this kind of work?
February 16, 2009
A person who signs themselves as "Village Idiot" nominates for a Shovel Award those who have criticised the National government for it’s so-called lack of response to the Gaza conflict.
February 4, 2009
John Gallagher nominated Mr Murray McCully, New Zealand's Foreign Minister, for a ladder award for his even-handed, solutions-oriented approach to the Gaza conflict.
January 23, 2009
John Gallagher continues his blog on life after the February 2009 New Zealand Jobs Summit. This time he looks at how wider vision in this information age can keep pragmatism working for jobs and for much else besides.