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International

OSAC
Beyond Pacific

Overseas Security Advisory Council announces New Zealand chapter relaunch and Auckland symposium

February 22, 2023

The US Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC) announces the relaunch of its New Zealand chapter and the staging of a security symposium in Auckland on 23 February. The OSAC New Zealand Chapter will mark the relaunch of its […]

Iran
Beyond Pacific

New Zealand imposes new sanctions and travel bans on Iran

February 16, 2023

New Zealand Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta has announced new sanctions on Iranians supplying drones to Russia and expanded travel bans on those responsible for the violent response to protests. “New Zealand condemns all individuals and […]

Negar Partow
Beyond Pacific

Opinion: Iranian and Afghani women – united in pain and hope

February 12, 2023

Senior Lecturer Dr Negar Partow from Massey University’s Centre for Defence and Security Studies writes about the shared struggles of women in Iran and Afghanistan. By way of pain and oppression, Iranian and Afghani women […]

Gun control
Beyond Pacific

Arms sales of SIPRI Top 100 arms companies grow despite supply chain challenges

January 5, 2023

Sales of arms and military services by the 100 largest defence suppliers reached $592 billion in 2021, a 1.9% increase compared with 2020, according to new data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. The […]

F-22A Raptor
Beyond Pacific

Global arms trade falls slightly, but imports to Europe, East Asia and Oceania rise

March 19, 2022

According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the international arms trade has contracted, but there are major areas of growth. International transfers of major arms saw a slight drop between 2012–16 and 2017–21 […]

Democracy decline
Beyond Pacific

Is democracy declining or just being redefined?

December 16, 2021

As the West laments a global decline in its version of democracy, China suggests its own brand of democracy as a replacement. It’s part of an increasingly contested space, writes Nicholas Dynon, at the discursive […]

HMNZS Aotearoa
Beyond Pacific

The failure of US counterinsurgency and the rise of the Indo Pacific

September 17, 2021

With the Afghanistan withdrawal allowing the US to sharpen its focus on the Indo Pacific, former Defence Minister Dr Wayne Mapp considers New Zealand’s position in the context of an energised or expanded Quad grouping. […]

Mazar-i-Sharif
Beyond Pacific

Were recent events in Afghanistan really an ‘intelligence failure’?

September 12, 2021

The Taliban’s rapid retaking of Afghanistan highlighted failures, but it was no intelligence failure, writes Dr John Battersby and Dr Rhys Ball of Massey University’s Centre for Defence and Security Studies. Dr John Battersby is […]

Five Power Defence Arrangements
Beyond Pacific

New Zealand’s emerging Five Eyes challenge

August 21, 2021

Dr Wayne Mapp writes that a new cold war has broken out and that New Zealand cannot avoid being drawn in. Staying on the right side of history will require deft diplomacy and smart strategy. […]

SIPRI Report
Beyond Pacific

Global nuclear arsenals grow as states continue to modernise

August 15, 2021

The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) Yearbook 2021 finds that despite an overall decrease in the number of nuclear warheads in 2020, more have been deployed with operational forces. In summary: estimated number of […]

China-US rivalry in Asia
Beyond Pacific

From Oslo to Wellington: A role in keeping the great power peace

September 29, 2020

Former Defence Minister Wayne Mapp surveys the state of China-US rivalry in East Asia, suggesting that New Zealand can play an important role in diffusing tension in the region – if Wellington chooses to invest. […]

New Zealand's China dilemma
Beyond Pacific

Does an increasingly powerful China present a dilemma for New Zealand?

August 28, 2020

Does New Zealand face a China dilemma? Former New Zealand Ambassador to China John McKinnon CNZM QSO and Beijing-based business leader David Mahon delivered sage perspectives at a recent New Zealand China Friendship Society public […]

Covid-era protest
Beyond Pacific

‘The People’s Spring’: Covid-19, public protest and terrorism

June 25, 2020

Covid-19 has set the scene for vehement public displays of non-confidence in governments around the Western world, writes Dr John Battersby. Are democracies of the West about to face their own ‘people’s spring?’ Over the […]

Kacific
International

ITU and Kacific boost emergency telecoms in Vanuatu

June 21, 2020

Kacific Broadband Satellites Group and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) have joined forces in support of Vanuatu to provide a reliable communications network when disasters strike. The collaboration aims to bring connectivity, in particular to […]

China Power
Beyond Pacific

How powerful is China? Comparing economic, military and soft power

March 14, 2020

It’s one of the big questions of our time: just how powerful is China? Although 40 years of economic reform and growth may have set the country on a course towards achieving superpower status, the […]

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