Foreign policy Archives

Foreign Minister Peters lambasts AUKUS Pillar 2 detractors in NZIIA speech

May 2, 2024

In an annual New Zealand Institute of International Affairs (NZIIA) lecture at Parliament House, Foreign Minister Winston Peters sets record straight on Wellington’s engagement on potential Pillar 2 membership, writes Nicholas Dynon. Setting the record […]

Not quite the internationalist: Foreign and defence policy in need of new thinking

November 12, 2018

With low representation in UN deployments and a lack of investment in policy think-tank firepower, former Defence Minister Dr Wayne Mapp writes that New Zealand’s foreign policy independence is starting to look a little hollow. […]

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