New Zealand International Review back issues from Monday, March 1:
APEC '99: confidence and co-operation.(Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation)
Mar 01, 1999; ... Jenny Shipley, the Prime Minister, comments on New Zealand's task as Chair of APEC. APEC offers New Zealand unique opportunities this year. It is up to all of us to see we make the most of those opportunities in setting the policy agenda and capitalising on the world-wide media ...
APEC AT A CROSSROADS.
Mar 01, 1999; ... Leader of the Opposition Helen Clark suggests that New Zealand should take a fresh approach to APEC. Times have indeed changed since New Zealand first made its bid in the mid-1990s to host this year's APEC summit in New Zealand. At that time the assembled leaders of ...
TAIWAN: the KMT's triumph.
Mar 01, 1999; ... Lin Min and Maria Galikowski discuss the implications of the recent Taiwanese elections for cross-Strait relations and Asia-Pacific security. On 5 December 1998, Taiwan held some important elections, to choose a new legislature, and new mayors and councils for its two biggest ...
JAPAN: will the wild ride continue?
Mar 01, 1999; ... Roger Peren reflects on Some of the problems and challenges confronting Japan at the end of the century. Japan is very important for New Zealand as a trading partner -- for many years either second or third export market, taking not only food and fibres but also a growing range ...
RUSSIA'S INTERVENTION IN THE TRANSCAUCASIAN CONFLICTS.
Mar 01, 1999; ... Graeme Horne and Emil Danielyan review Russia's sometimes controversial role in both the Nagorno-Karabakh and Abkhaz conflicts. Russia's intervention in the Transcaucasus conflicts has raised concern among a number of Western regional observers, some of whom even go as far as to ...
THE UNITED STATES AT A TURNING POINT.
Mar 01, 1999; ... Denis McLean provides some observations of American altitudes and approaches to the world in the post-Cold War era. What's going on in the United States? Mark Twain was once faced with a similar impossible question. He reported, `I was pleased to be able to answer and to do so ...
SOUTH-EAST ASIA'S PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS.
Mar 01, 1999; ... Anthony Smith reports on the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies' 1999 Regional Outlook Forum. On 8 January 1999 the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) hosted its annual Regional Outlook Forum. Several hundred people were in attendance, including academics, diplomats, ...
THE EVOLUTION OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS.
Mar 01, 1999; ... Colin Aikman comments on the now fifty-year-old Universal Declaration of Human Rights in light of two recent publications on the subject of human rights. The 50th Anniversary of the adoption the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations General Assembly ...
EU AGENDA.
Mar 01, 1999; ... Promoting EU studies in New Zealand Martin Holland calls for greater attention to be given to European Studies in New Zealand. The study of the European Union, and Europe in general, has struggled to establish an identity in New Zealand. Despite -- or perhaps because ...
ASIAN FREEDOMS: The Idea of Freedom in East and Southeast Asia.(Review)
Mar 01, 1999; ... ASIAN FREEDOMS: The Idea of Freedom in East and Southeast Asia Editors: David Kelly and Anthony Reid Published by: Cambridge University Press, Oakleigh, Vic, 1998, 228pp, A$32.95. Since the height of the so-called `third wave' of democracy in 1989, the ...
NEW ZEALAND TAIWAN RELATIONS.(Review)
Mar 01, 1999; ... NEW ZEALAND TAIWAN RELATIONS Author: Stephen Hoadley Published by: New Zealand Asia Institute, University of Auckland, and Auckland Institute of Studies, Auckland, 1998, 69pp, $10. It is curious that there has been so little research on New Zealand's ...
AUSTRALIA'S SECURITY IN THE 21ST CENTURY.(Review)
Mar 01, 1999; ... AUSTRALIA'S SECURITY IN THE 21ST CENTURY Editor: J. Mohan Malik Published by: Allen and Unwin, St Leonards, NSW, 1999, 284pp, A$29.95. This collection of essays by a dozen scholars provides a very useful overview, analysis and critique of Australia's ...
RESISTING THE BOMB: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement, 1954-1970.(Review)
Mar 01, 1999; ... RESISTING THE BOMB: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement, 1954-1970 Author: Lawrence S. Wittner Published by: Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1997, 641pp, A$39.95. This is volume 2 of Lawrence Wittner's trilogy `The Struggle Against ...
National Office and branch activities.
Mar 01, 1999 ... The last four weeks of 1998 were busy ones. On 3 December the Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Richard Nottage, and two of his colleagues briefed a meeting sponsored by the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs, the Centre for Strategic Studies and the Asian ...