International Law Internship Opportunity with the New Zealand Centre for Global Studies International People’s Tribunal for the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killing...
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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...
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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...
Systemic Global Change: Part III
In Part II of this blog series, three conclusions were drawn: This decade is likely to be a seminal moment of systemic change to the contemporary international system, updating its 20th features to fit the 21st. The legitimate grouping for decision-making should...
Systemic Global Change: Pt. II
Part I on Systemic Global Change explored systemic risk and systemic change, the ‘seminal moments’ of the 20th century when the contemporary international system was established and refined, and the efforts undertaken during the UN era for effecting change. This part...
Systemic Global Change: Pt. I
In A New Global Institution? (11 April), Klaus Bosselmann identified ‘systemic risk’ and ‘systemic change’ as inter-related concepts for embracing a post-pandemic worldview: “A systemic risk is the possibility that a singular event may trigger instability or collapse...
The Global Community Catches a Virus
The current global health pandemic is shaking the foundations of the international community of states, possibly to its core. Those foundations still reflect mid-20th c. political-legal thought, institutional structures, and procedural behaviour. Over the past...
Strengthening Multilateralism through UN Reform
In his December column, former ambassador Colin Keating outlined the concept of a research project which the Centre is about to undertake on Strengthening Multilateralism through UN Reform. This project has its genesis in a speech that Colin gave on the occasion of UN...
Towards a Theory of Everything: Pt III. Development
Part II identified, in developing a ‘global theory’ for the 21st century, the following components: primary features, global values, citizenship, law and governance; foundational concepts of consilience and coherence, along with operational concepts of risk management...
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