The NZ think-tank seeking answers to the 'global questions'
- How does ‘global studies’ better inform the political, professional, and academic communities about world affairs in the 21st century?
- What is the difference between the ‘global community of peoples’ and the ‘international community of states’; and how do they inter-relate?
- How do the Centre’s ‘structural programmes’ (global citizenship; global governance; global law) inter-relate; and how do they influence the Centre’s ‘thematic programmes’ (global security; global sustainability’)?
- How to bring 20th thought – the foundation of the international system – into the 21st c. with optimal balance between stability and creativity, to solve our contemporary global problems?
- How to ensure that current ‘global dynamics’, both spatial (inter-regional) and temporal (inter-generational) are harnessed most effectively in the global public interest?
Events
There are no upcoming events at this time.Religions for Peace
On 31 October, the NZ Centre for Global Studies, in association with the Religious Diversity Centre Aotearoa, held its 7th Annual Global Affairs Lecture at Holy Trinity Cathedral, Auckland, New Zealan...
October 31 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pmClimate Change – Inter-parliamentary research
The Centre’s Director has been appointed by the EU & International IDEA as project writer for the INTER-PARES project for the climate change theme. The aim is to assist MPs around the worl...
September 30 @ 6:00 pmUN Reform Project
The Centre is collaborating with the UN Association of New Zealand in a joint research project on ‘Reforming Multilateral Institutions’. The project coordinators are Dr Kennedy Graham (N...
September 30 @ 12:00 pmBook: NZ in UN Security Council
A book has just been published on New Zealand’s role on the UN Security Council, 2015-16. Board member, Dr Graham Hassall, is a co-editor, and the Director, Dr Kennedy Graham, has contribute...
August 24 @ 12:00 pmGlobal Governance
On 5 August, the Centre co-hosted with the NZ Centre for Public Law a webinar Lecture by Dr Augusto Lopez-Claros, internationally-renowned economist, whose co-edited book has just been published: Glob...
August 5 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmAggression as a crime
On 30 April the Director and Prof Neil Boister testified verbally to Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Select Committee on the ‘Certain Weapons’ amendment to the Rome Statute, following t...
April 30 @ 5:00 pm
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