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		<title>Is NZ foreign policy &#8220;independent?&#8221; (and related issues).</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2022 01:39:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For many years New Zealand elites have claimed to have an “independent” foreign policy, so much so that it has become a truism of NZ politics that transcends the partisan divide in parliament and is a shibboleth of the NZ foreign policy establishment that is parroted by media and pundits alike. But is it a ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Hate crimes are not always terrorism.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Sep 2021 22:36:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; Director Paul G. Buchanan has researched and written for over thirty years about terrorism and irregular warfare. He has participated in counter-terrorism analysis and policy development while working in and with US government intelligence and military agencies, including leadership and recruitment profiling. With this background, he offers an assessment of the recent supermarket stabbings ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>New Zealand&#8217;s foreign policy alignment.</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2021/04/29/new-zealands-foreign-policy-alignment/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2021 03:12:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[36th Parallel offers periodic assessments of matters and issues in the news. In this assessment we look at the fallout to a recent speech on foreign policy by its new Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta and explain why the criticism directed at New Zealand over the content of the speech is unwarranted and misguided. &#160; A ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Chinese List.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2020 02:25:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; News that Zhenhua Data, an arm of China Zhenhua Electronics Group, a subsidiary of the military-connected China Electronic Information Industry Group (CETC), maintains a list of 800 New Zealanders on a “Overseas Key Information Database” that contains personal information on more than 2.4 million foreign individuals, has caused some consternation in Kiwi political circles. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Paul Buchanan &#8211; Radio NZ Dispatch: Beware the false narrative linking Christchurch to Sri Lanka bombings</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2019/04/25/paul-buchanan-radio-nz-dispatch-beware-the-false-narrative-linking-christchurch-to-sri-lanka-bombings/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2019 09:18:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Opinion &#8211; ISIS and a junior defence minister in the Sri Lankan government have claimed the terrorist attacks on churches and hotels were a response to the attack on mosques in Christchurch on 15 March. The claims need to be treated with scepticism. Here&#8217;s why. Having been defeated on the battlefields of the Levant, ISIS now ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Paul Buchanan &#8211; Radio New Zealand Dispatch: &#8216;New Zealand must own this terrorist attack&#8217;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 08:53:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Opinion &#8211; The terrorist attack on two Christchurch mosques is a watershed moment in New Zealand history. In the days, months and years ahead much soul-searching will be conducted about the social and political factors that contributed to the massacre of 50 people. Here we shall focus on two: the spread of hate speech via social ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A bridge too far.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2018 18:43:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Labour-led government in New Zealand has settled on a new mantra when it comes to addressing the US-China rivalry. It claims that New Zealand is ideally situated to become a bridge between the two great powers and an honest broker when it comes to their interaction with the Southwest Pacific. This follows the long-held ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Confronting Sharp Power.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2018 00:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[International relations is about exercising power to achieve objectives on the global stage. The actors that do so are states, companies, non-governmental organizations or criminal and non-state political actors acting directly or as proxies. The tools they employ have traditionally included hard power, which is the threat and use of diplomatic, economic and military coercion; ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>On intelligence oversight, a broader perspective.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2018 01:14:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Introduction. Director Paul G. Buchanan has been named as a member of the New Zealand Inspector General of Intelligence and Security&#8217;s Reference Group, an external interest intermediation panel. The backdrop to his appointment is that historically the IGIS has been a hollow agency posing as an institutional check on the agencies it is statutorily charged ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Brazil enters the military airlift market, with New Zealand as a target.</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2017/04/12/brazil-enters-the-military-airlift-market-with-new-zealand-as-a-target/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Apr 2017 02:25:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Military aviation has become a global business that transcends strike forces and combat-only platforms. Flexibility in non-military missions such as search and rescue, firefighting and medical evacuation are now added to traditional military airlift missions like troop and weapons transport, airdrop and long-range patrol, surveillance and intelligence gathering. In this analytic brief 36th Parallel Assessments ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Occasional Paper Series: Foreign Policy Realignment, Issue Linkage, Institutional Lag and the New Zealand Intelligence Community.</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2016/03/02/occasional-paper-series-foreign-policy-realignment-issue-linkage-institutional-lag-and-the-new-zealand-intelligence-community/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2016 02:32:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Introduction.  This essay examines the subject of institutional lag after foreign policy realignment, using as an example the “core “ of the New Zealand intelligence community (the Security Intelligence Service (SIS), Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) and National Assessments Bureau (NAB)) after the end of the Cold War. The essay argues that New Zealand intelligence ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Analytic Brief: Cyber warfare comes to the South Pacific.</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2015/06/12/analytic-brief-cyber-warfare-comes-to-the-south-pacific/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2015 23:52:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; News that Chinese hackers obtained personal details of 4 million US federal employees dating to 1985, following on the heels of similar attacks on the customer records of private insurance companies and retirement funds as well as the internal email networks of the US State Department and White House, demonstrate that a guerrilla cyber-war ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Balancing civil liberties and intelligence operations in New Zealand.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2015 01:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In recent days there have been claims that there has been both more and less spying by New Zealand intelligence agencies. Proponents and opponents of the intelligence community have seized on one or the other claim to argue in favour or against NZ&#8217;s involvement in the 5 Eyes signals intelligence network and the expansion of ]]></description>
		
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		<title>Analytic Brief: Political Fratricide.</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2012/11/26/analytic-brief-political-fratricide/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2012 00:21:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Analytic Brief: Political Fratricide. Paul G. Buchanan &#8220;Fratricide.&#8221; Reza Karimi. (Source: www.iranianpainting.com/fratricide.htm) Analytic Brief: Political Fratricide. Paul G. Buchanan Introduction: In light of recent events involving the New Zealand Labour Party, this brief explores the phenomenon known as political fratricide and its sub-set, party fratricide. Political fratricide is the tearing apart of a political movement or ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>RNZ Interview: Paul Buchanan IVed On Radio New Zealand On An Investigation Into The GCSB</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2012/09/25/rnz-interview-paul-buchanan-ived-on-radio-new-zealand-on-an-investigation-into-the-gcsb/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Selwyn Manning]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2012 01:36:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[RNZ Interview: Paul Buchanan IVed On Radio New Zealand On An Investigation Into The GCSB RNZ Report: With Paul Buchanan &#8211; Security and Intelligence Analyst, and Nicky Hager &#8211; Investigative Journalist and Author, whose 1996 book &#8220;Secret Power &#8211; New Zealand&#8217;s role in the international spy network&#8221; detailed the surveillance system, ECHELON, used at the ]]></description>
		
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		<title>Interview: Opposition Grows Against New Zealand Government&#8217;s Anti-Boat People/Asylum-Seeker Deterrent Legislation</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2012/09/11/interview-opposition-grows-against-new-zealand-governments-anti-boat-peopleasylum-seeker-deterrent-legislation/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Selwyn Manning]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 04:31:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Opposition Grows Against New Zealand Government&#8217;s Anti-Boat People/Asylum-Seeker Deterrent Legislation TriangleTV Interview: Selwyn Manning With Tracey Barnett &#8211; Asylum Seeker Laws &#8211; September 10, 2012. The New Zealand National-led Government has initiated legislation that, if passed through its final stages of Parliament, will detain asylum-seekers should they arrive at the nation&#8217;s borders in groups of ]]></description>
		
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		<title>Interview: David Cunliffe &#038; Selwyn Manning Examine Labour&#8217;s Economic Development Plan For New Zealand</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Selwyn Manning]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2012 10:27:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[David Cunliffe &#038; Selwyn Manning Examine Labour&#8217;s Economic Development Plan For New Zealand David-Cunliffe Interview With Selwyn Manning &#8211; TriTV &#8211; Beatson Interview &#8211; September 03 2012. In this interview between Selwyn Manning and Labour&#8217;s spokesperson for Economic Development, David Cunliffe, Labour&#8217;s economic plan for New Zealand is examined. What would a Labour-led government do ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2012 08:28:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Afghanistan: Beefing Up In Order To Leave Analysis &#8211; By Dr Paul G. Buchanan. In the wake of the most recent NZDF deaths in Bamiyan Province, the New Zealand Prime Minister has decided to accelerate the timetable for withdrawal of NZDF from the Bamiyan Provincial Reconstruction Team to April 2013. After that the PRT will ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Selwyn Manning Interviews Coalition For Democracy In Fiji&#8217;s Nik Naidu on Fiji&#8217;s Slow Walk Back To Democracy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 03:54:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Fiji: Selwyn Manning Interviews Coalition For Democracy In Fiji&#8217;s Nik Naidu on Fiji&#8217;s Slow Walk Back To Democracy This Week: Selwyn Manning interviews Nik Naidu on Fiji&#8217;s Slow Walk Back To Democracy &#8211; Beatson Interview, Triangle TV, August 6 2012. Nothing is ever very predictable about the political situation in Fiji – except its unpredictability. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Pacific Fibre Issue &#8211; Has The US Gone Too Far?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Selwyn Manning]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2012 03:20:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Pacific Fibre Issue &#8211; Has The US Gone Too Far? Analysis &#8211; By Selwyn Manning. On Thursday morning Interest.co.nz&#8216;s Alex Tarrant reported that the Kiwi Pacific Fibre cable project was sunk by US fears about Chinese investment, and espionage. Interest.co.nz&#8216;s main contact was New Zealand-based invester Rod Drury who said: “It was made clear ]]></description>
		
		
		
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