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		<title>Military Extortion as Coercive Diplomacy.</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2026/01/07/military-extortion-as-coercive-diplomacy/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2026 21:41:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Source: Anonymous on X.com. The lethal theatre of the absurd that has been the Trump administration’s sabre rattling performances in the Central American basin over the last few months culminated with the military attack on Venezuela and the kidnapping of its president and his wife in the early hours of Saturday morning, Caracas time. The ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>About the Houthi Red Sea Blockage.</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2024/01/08/about-the-houthi-red-sea-blockage/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jan 2024 02:27:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Announcement that NZ has joined with 13 other maritime trade-dependent states in warning Houthis in Yemen to cease their attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea (particularly in the Bad-el-Mandeb Strait) raises some finer points embedded in the confrontation. First, there is the question of who is not participating. Even though they are also ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Authoritarian Realism.</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2023/10/26/authoritarian-realism/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Oct 2023 02:47:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In International relations, realism refers to the view that States have interests and use relative power capabilities to pursue those interests in an anarchic world order lacking a superordinate power or Leviathan (that is, a condition that Hobbes referred to as the “state of nature’). Conversely, idealism refers to the better angels and perfectibility of ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The PRC&#8217;s Two Level Game.</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2022/06/04/the-prcs-two-level-game/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2022 00:37:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Coming on the heels of the recently signed Solomon Islands-PRC bilateral economic and security agreement, the whirlwind tour of the Southwestern Pacific undertaken by PRC Foreign Minister Wang Yi has generated much concern in Canberra, Washington DC and Wellington as well as in other Western capitals. Wang and the PRC delegation came to the Southwestern ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Nuclear Strategy in a post-deterrence age.</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2021/07/12/nuclear-strategy-in-a-post-deterrence-age/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2021 03:46:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Nuclear weapons are in the news again, this time because recent satellite photos reveal that China is constructing large nuclear missile silo &#8220;farms&#8221; in its Northwestern desert regions. This has occasioned alarm in Western security circles and re-focused attention on the concept of nuclear deterrence. This essay will address some of the basic concepts involved ]]></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>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2020/09/19/the-chinese-list/</link>
		
		<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>Research Link: The 42 Group Q1/Q2 2020 Report.</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2020/08/23/research-link-the-42-group-q1-q2-2020-report/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2020 03:18:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[From time to time 36th Parallel features the work of guest analysts. This time we feature the latest offering from The 42 Group, an independent strategic analysis collective based in New Zealand that focuses on military, security and geopolitical analyses. While 36 Parallel is not affiliated with The 42 Group and does not endorse all ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Iran as a Strategic Actor, Part Two.</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2020/02/05/iran-as-a-strategic-actor-part-two/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Feb 2020 00:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Director Paul G. Buchanan has written a two part series on Iran as a strategic actor for the Australian Institute of International Affairs. The analysis is designed to offer an alternative interpretation to views prevalent in the West that see Iran as a rogue and unpredictable player on the world scene. Click here to read ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Iran as a strategic actor (part one)</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2020/01/31/iran-as-a-strategic-actor/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 03:13:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Director Paul G. Buchanan has written a two part series on Iran as a strategic actor for the Australian Institute of International Affairs. The analysis is designed to offer an alternative interpretation to views prevalent in the West that see Iran as a rogue and unpredictable player on the world scene. Click here to read ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>An age of protest.</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2019/11/15/an-age-of-protest/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Nov 2019 03:56:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Vandalized monument, Santiago Chile, November 2019. The recent surge in social protests world-wide is quantitatively and qualitatively different than in previous ages. The advent of individualised mass communications technologies and the heterogenous range of demands presented in countries governed by political regimes of different ideological persuasions makes the moment unique from an analytic standpoint and ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Was Sri Lanka attack retaliation? &#8211; Analysis</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2019/04/24/was-sri-lanka-attack-retaliation-analysis/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[36th Parallel]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2019 09:31:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has made a statement responding to the suggestion that the Sri Lanka bombings were retaliation for the Christchurch attacks. &#8220;We have seen reports of the statement from the Sri Lankan Minister of state for defence, alleging a link between the the Easter Sunday terrorist attack and the March 15 attack in ]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Paul Buchanan – Radio NZ Dispatch: Attacks &#8220;very unlikely&#8221; retaliation &#8211; security expert</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2019/04/24/paul-buchanan-radio-nz-dispatch-attacks-very-unlikely-retaliation-security-expert/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[36th Parallel]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2019 09:26:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Security expert Paul Buchanan said he thought the two attacks were &#8220;very unlikely&#8221; to be linked. &#8220;I would take these claims with a very healthy dose of scepticism, and the reason for that is both ISIS and the Sri Lankan government have their own reasons to deflect from the local nature of the attack. ISIS ]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>White supremacists left out of designated terrorists list</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2019/04/11/white-supremacists-left-out-of-designated-terrorists-list/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[36th Parallel]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2019 09:37:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Radio New Zealand reported that not a single right-wing extremist or white supremacist is listed on the United Nations&#8217; register of terrorists. Police published the list of Designated Terrorist Entities exactly one week after the Christchurch terror attacks. RNZ contacted 36th Parallel&#8217;s principal Dr Paul Buchanan for his view, he said for too long intelligence agencies had ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Spy agencies have not had hands tied &#8211; Paul Buchanan</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2019/03/26/spy-agencies-have-not-had-hands-tied-paul-buchanan/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[36th Parallel]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2019 08:52:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[National Party leader Simon Bridges says the Government should reconsider the surveillance programme Project Speargun, which the previous National government abandoned in 2013. He says intelligence agencies have their hands tied behind their backs, and the programme &#8220;would have done more to keep New Zealanders safe&#8221;. Radio New Zealand sought the view of 36th Parallel&#8217;s ]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Paul Buchanan &#8211; Radio New Zealand Dispatch: &#8216;New Zealand must own this terrorist attack&#8217;</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2019/03/20/paul-buchanan-radio-new-zealand-dispatch-new-zealand-must-own-this-terrorist-attack/</link>
		
		<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>On intelligence oversight, a broader perspective.</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2018/04/22/on-intelligence-oversight-a-broader-perspective/</link>
		
		<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>Analytic Brief: Influence Operations, Targeted Interventions and Intelligence Gathering: A Primer.</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2017/09/23/analytic-brief-influence-operations-targeted-interventions-and-intelligence-gathering-a-primer/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2017 23:39:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Revelations of Chinese influence operations in Australia and New Zealand, and the ongoing sequels to the Russian &#8220;interference&#8221; in the 2016 US election, have caused outcry and concern amongst policy-makers and public alike. Beyond the xenophobic aspects to fears of the spectre of a &#8220;Yellow Peril&#8221; emerging in the Antipodes (a fear that we do ]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Analysis Assessment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Zealand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rotate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>
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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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