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Professor Rouben Azizian
National Security

Massey University publishes latest National Security Journal

August 13, 2020

In this abridged ‘Comment from the Editors’, Professor Rouben Azizian and Dr John Battersby provide a brief introduction to the just-published second instalment of the National Security Journal. The successful launch of the National Security Journal last […]

Centre for Defence and Security Studies - National Security Conference
Beyond Pacific

Reflections on the Second National Security Conference

July 21, 2018

Dr William Hoverd, Senior Lecturer at Massey University’s Centre for Defence and Security Studies, is guest editor of this 2018 National Security Conference special issue of Line of Defence. He offers his reflections on the […]

Terrorist propaganda
International

A societal narrative for national security?

July 20, 2018

Dr Germana Nicklin of Massey University’s Centre for Defence and Security Studies, writes that disparate views in New Zealand about ‘national security’ need to be resolved. The concept of national security in New Zealand is […]

Terrorism: Rainbow Warrior
Counter-Terrorism

Countering terrorism where there’s ‘apparently’ no terrorism to counter

July 10, 2018

New Zealanders’ sense of security from the threat of terrorism, writes Dr John Battersby of Massey University’s Centre for Defence and Security Studies, is based on the belief that terrorism happens elsewhere. History tells us […]

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