We have entered an era of human crisis. What we think and do in the future will inevitably build on, but cannot be confined to, the past. The Centre’s Trust Deed (2012) requires it to “encourage and facilitate informed interdisciplinary research into global affairs...
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Climate Challenge 2020:
I was recently invited to talk to a consultancy firm about my take on the climate challenge facing both our world and our country, now that New Zealand’s Zero Carbon Act is in force, and as the UN’s latest COP writhes in interminable stalemate – 25th version. I was...
Multilateralism & the Rules-based Order:
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 in terms of...
Strengthening Multilateralism:
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...
Global Security and UN Peacekeeping:
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...
Global Studies in a Time of Global Angst
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 general...
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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.