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Article: The zenith of realism in New Zealand's foreign policy.
- Article from:
- The Australian Journal of Politics and History
- Article date:
- September 1, 2002
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New Zealand's modern foreign policy is a blend of the Realist and Liberal Internationalist approaches to international relations, with the latter now probably being the predominant strand. This, however, was not always so. Between 1912 and 1935 New Zealand's foreign policy can be characterised as purely Realist in nature: governments were preoccupied with security, suspicious of international institutions and not much concerned with human rights. The governments that practised this Realist foreign policy were drawn from the conservative parties in the New Zealand Parliament, the Reform party and the United party. The Realist approach to foreign policy began to be ...