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The New Zealand Centre for Global Studies is a non-profit organisation. We conduct research and policy analysis on global affairs and New Zealand’s role within that realm.
Events
No First Use Of Nuclear Weapons: Asia-Pacific Perspectives – Webinar
The New Zealand Centre for Global Studies is honoured to invite you to our first webinar for 2021 to be held on 22nd May 2021 and entitled No First Use of Nuclear Weapons: Asia-Pacific Perspectives. S...
May 22 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
UN Reform Project
On 10 December the NZCGS – UNANZ Discussion Paper ‘Time for Upgrade our Global Institutions: A fresh vision from Aotearoa New Zealand’ was completed, and presented in separate briefi...
December 10, 2020 @ 12:00 pm
Recent Blog Posts
The 16th EU-India Summit
A Pivot to Multilateralism
India and EU are in the final stages of preparing for their 16th summit in a bid to shape a rules-based ‘multipolar’ order. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, earlier scheduled to travel to the Portuguese...
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Myanmar pleads for the world to honour R2P
The Responsibility to Protect
This is not a blog I had expected, intended or wanted to write. I have politely declined requests to write on the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) in relation to the current crisis in Myanmar and the...
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‘The Silence’
I took this photograph of the Port Hills, Christchurch on 22 March 2019 – exactly one week after the devastating terrorist attack on the city’s mosques. That morning, I’d joined 20,000 others in a public...
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The Challenge of US Electoral Instability
When Joseph Biden won the 2020 US election many hoped that there would be a quick return to an old globalist agenda and support for international institutions. However, the US has changed politically, socially, and culturally, which will seriously...
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