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Latest news and views from NZCGS experts and contributors.

PACDAC webinar

by Dr Kennedy Graham | Dec 9, 2021 | Director

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

by Sundeep Waslekar | Nov 28, 2021 | Guests

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

by Rod Oram | Nov 12, 2021 | Board

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

by Jayden van Leeuwen | Jun 21, 2021 | Young Global Scholars Group, Board

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...

Myanmar pleads for the world to honour R2P

by Ramesh Thakur | Apr 12, 2021 | Board

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 climbing civilian death toll. The turning point was visuals of...

The Challenge of US Electoral Instability

by Tapio Kanninen | Mar 10, 2021 | International Advisory Panel

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...

New United States Leadership

by Abbas Nazari | Mar 4, 2021 | Young Global Scholars Group

In his address to the Munich security conference (his first international speech as president), President Biden told European leaders the US wants to “earn back our position of trusted leadership.” In a clean break from the isolationist policies of his predecessor,...

Military Cooperation

by Hugh Steadman | Mar 1, 2021 | Guests

On 22nd January, 2021, the TPNW came into force with the requisite fifty nations having ratified the treaty. Since then, several others, including Cambodia and Philippines have joined. The background has been dealt with at some length in my recent article. The key...

Trump’s Exit

by Chris Williams | Feb 23, 2021 | International Advisory Panel

What might future historians note as the epoch-making aspects of Donald Trump’s exit? Perhaps it will include something that is attracting less academic attention at present - social media companies closing down Trump’s accounts. Twitter and later Snapchat permanently...

Unhinged Leaders and Nuclear Weapons

by Tanya Ogilvie-White | Jan 8, 2021 | International Advisory Panel

I’ve spent my life studying the risks posed by nuclear weapons. I’ve always worried that one day an unhinged leader would emerge in a nuclear-armed country, with the authority to launch a nuclear attack. To me, the assumption that nuclear-armed leaders will act...