Tag: Foreign affairs

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...

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...

Revelations of Chinese influence operations in Australia and New Zealand, and the ongoing sequels to the Russian "interference" in the 2016 US election, have...

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...

The Trump administration's decision to withdraw the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, a multinational trade and investment accord involving eleven Pacific Rim countries other than the...

Last week Fiji took delivery of a shipment of Russian weapons that were "donated" by Russia pursuant to a bilateral Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)...

Although 36th Parallel Assessments is loathe to prognosticate on fluid situations and current events,we have been thinking about how the conflict in Iraq has...

Futures Forecast: A "Guarded" Democracy in Fiji. Paul G. Buchanan Change of Guard Ceremony, Government House, Suva. Republic of Fiji Military Forces hand over guardship to...

RNZ Interview: Paul Buchanan IVed On Radio New Zealand On An Investigation Into The GCSB RNZ Report: With Paul Buchanan - Security and Intelligence Analyst,...

This week the United States' Defence Secretary Leon Panetta visited New Zealand after holding bilateral meetings with the People's Republic of China and Japan. Panetta...