Small States and the Changing Global Order

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Small Can Be Huge: New Zealand Foreign Policy in an Era of Global Uncertainty

   • Anne-Marie Brady

   Pages 1-10

3. New Zealand Foreign Policy Institutions and Process

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. The Urgent Versus the Important: How Foreign and Security Policy Is Negotiated in New Zealand

      • Anthony L. Smith

      Pages 13-37

   3. The New Zealand Defence Force Role in New Zealand Foreign Policy

      • B. K. Greener

      Pages 39-53

   4. Aid and Foreign Policy: New Zealand Development Assistance in the Pacific

      • Steven Ratuva

      Pages 55-73

   5. Small States in a New Era of Public Diplomacy: New Zealand and Digital Diplomacy

      • Natalia Chaban, Serena Kelly, Anne-Marie Brady

      Pages 75-89

4. New Zealand’s Bedrock Bilateral Relationships

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91

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   2. Pragmatic Optimisation: Australia—New Zealand Relations in the 21st-Century

      • Jim Rolfe

      Pages 93-109

   3. New Zealand-US Relations in the Trump Era and Beyond

      • Robert G. Patman

      Pages 111-126

   4. A Strategic Partnership: New Zealand-China Relations in the Xi Jinping Era and Beyond

      • Anne-Marie Brady

      Pages 127-144

   5. Neighbours and Cousins: Aotearoa-New Zealand’s Relationship with the Pacific

      • Steven Ratuva, Anne-Marie Brady

      Pages 145-163

   6. Like-Minded States: New Zealand–ASEAN Relations in the Changing Asia-Pacific Strategic Environment

      • Mark G. Rolls

      Pages 165-177

   7. Escaping the UK’s Shadow: New Zealand and the European Union

      • Matthew Gibbons, Serena Kelly, Martin Holland

      Pages 179-192

   8. Dealing with a Proactive Japan: Reconsidering Japan’s Regional Role and Its Value for New Zealand’s Foreign Policy

      • Corey Wallace

      Pages 193-211

   9. Russia Resurgent: The Implications for New Zealand

      • James Headley

      Pages 213-229

   10. Looking to the Future: Expanding New Zealand Foreign Relations Beyond Traditional Partnerships

       • Reuben Steff

       Pages 231-249

5. New Zealand and Global Governance

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 251-251

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   2. Climate Change: Antarctic Geopolitics and the Implications for New Zealand Foreign Policy

      • Anne-Marie Brady

      Pages 253-270

   3. A Small State in the Global Commons: New Zealand’s Approach to Climate Change

      • Adrian Macey

      Pages 271-285

This book provides a critical examination of the foreign policy choices of one typical small state, New Zealand, as it faces the changing global balance of power. New Zealand’s foreign policy challenges are similar with those faced by many other small states in the world today and are ideally suited to help inform theoretical debates on the role of small states in the changing international system. The book analyses how a small state such as New Zealand is adjusting to the changing geopolitical, geo-economic, environment. The book includes perspectives from some of New Zealand's leading as well as emerging commentators on New Zealand foreign policy. 

• Asia-Pacific
• Global financial crisis
• Multilateral institutions
• Regionalism
• Foreign policy

• Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

  Anne-Marie Brady

Anne-Marie Brady is Professor in Political Science and International Relations at the University of Canterbury and a Global Fellow at the Wilson Center in Washington DC. She researches and writes on China’s domestic and foreign policy, polar politics, Pacific politics, and New Zealand foreign policy. She is the author or editor of 11 books and the Executive Editor of The Polar Journal. 

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