Yesterday I attended MFAT’s annual Beeby Colloquium on International Law. Having had the privilege of working closely with Chris back in the ‘80s, it is quite a moving experience to attend these events. It is also, equally, an annual highlight
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My first column (9 Oct.) noted the ‘bipolar mind-set’ discernible among national leaders at the UN General Assembly debates in recent years. An ‘intellectual rivalry’ was playing out between two apparent doctrines – ‘patriotism’ and ‘universalism’. Both address the issue
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Jayden van Leeuwen’s column on UN peacekeeping and its accounting to the global community raises some important issues that thematically fall within the Centre’s global security programme. Jayden addresses the problem of sexual abuse by personnel in UN peacekeeping missions
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Welcome to this revamped website of the NZ Centre for Global Studies which has just gone live today. After five-years of activity in research and policy prescription, the Board sees it now as time to reach out more to the
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