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Humanity Is One Minute From Midnight
Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, it may be necessary to move the Doomsday Clock forward to just one minute to midnight. The world needs a new global security architecture to constrain nuclear weapons, hypersonic missiles, killer pathogens, and the mounting...
Blair Knighthood Shows How History Does Mockery
Proving that history does irony, banks that once feared masked robbers now fear mask-free customers. But does history also do mockery? The 1984 Nobel Peace laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu passed away on Boxing Day in Cape Town. Almost a decade ago, Tutu refused to...
Global Governance in the Existential Age – Part 2
Part I of this blog identified the conceptual insights which members and affiliates of the Centre, and invited guests, have offered on the modern plight of the human condition, and of potential ways forward. As Director of the Centre for eight years (and stepping down...
Global Governance in the Existential Age – Part 1
The Centre has been privileged this month to host some valuable commentary on the challenge of global governance. On 6 December the Climate Minister, Hon James Shaw, gave the 8th NZCGS Annual Global Lecture, by webinar with 292 registered participants. His address...
8th NZCGS Annual Global Affairs Lecture
The 8th NZCGS annual global affairs lecture was held on 6 December 2021. The lecture was given by New Zealand’s Minister of Climate Change, Hon James Shaw.
Climate Change and Global Governance
The 26th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was held in Glasgow from 31 October to 12 November 2021. While tangible progress was made both inside and outside the formal negotiations, the world still...
PACDAC webinar
On 1 December, the NZ Public Advisory Committee on Disarmament & Arms Control held a webinar on the above subject. The NZCGS Director, Dr. Kennedy Graham, who has been a member of the Committee (2019-21), gave the response to the introductory speech by the...
Reinventing Multilateral Order
A thoughtful and constructive article has been completed on Reinventing Multilateral Order by Sundeep Waslekar. The author has previously contributed to the NZCGS blog column (Systemic Global Change: Two ingredients – mutual global trust, legitimate global...
COP26 – Climate Negotiations at Glasgow
NZCGS Board member and reputed business-environmental journalist, Rod Oram, has been attending COP26 in Glasgow these past few weeks, and regularly reporting back through Newsroom. Here are his reports. 14 November COP26’s inadequate package could still lead to...
Samoan Constitutional Crisis
Although Samoan’s went to the polls on 9 April 2021, the wait for a clear winner of that election is still ongoing, and the outcome could have wide-ranging implications for the region – not only because Samoa is a well-respected Pacific democracy, but also because of...
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