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		<title>A bridge too far.</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2018/11/21/a-bridge-too-far/</link>
		
		<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>From failure, opportunity beckons.</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2017/01/25/from-failure-opportunity-beckons/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2017 21:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Trump administration&#8217;s decision to withdraw the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, a multinational trade and investment accord involving eleven Pacific Rim countries other than the US, is seen as a blow to hopes for a freer flow of goods and services in the Asia-Pacific Region. In this analytic brief we look at the potential opportunities presented ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Analytic Brief: Fiji&#8217;s strategic pivot.</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2016/01/27/fijis-strategic-pivot/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2016 05:57:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Last week Fiji took delivery of a shipment of Russian weapons that were &#8220;donated&#8221; by Russia pursuant to a bilateral Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed in February 2015. The Fijians say that the weapons are needed by Fijian peacekeepers in places like the Middle East because what they currently have in their inventory are obsolete. ]]></description>
		
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		<title>A hard rain is a&#8217;gonna fall.</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2015/05/23/a-hard-rain-is-agonna-fall/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2015 06:51:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 been going. Althoughwe do not believe that the Islamic State (IS) is anywhere close to being the global threat that it is portrayed to be in the West, we do believe ]]></description>
		
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		<title>Country Risk Assessment: New Caledonia.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2014 02:21:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Political risk assessments are an under appreciated aspect of the due diligence undertaken as part of the process of engaging in cultural, diplomatic or economic exchanges in foreign locations. Most political risk analysis, including country risk assessments, are done by large credit rating agencies and insurance underwriters. Some nations provide country risk assessments for citizens ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Futures Forecast: A &#8220;Guarded&#8221; Democracy in Fiji.</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2013/01/17/futures-forecast-a-guarded-democracy-in-fiji/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 22:32:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Futures Forecast: A &#8220;Guarded&#8221; Democracy in Fiji. Paul G. Buchanan Change of Guard Ceremony, Government House, Suva. Republic of Fiji Military Forces hand over guardship to Republic of Fiji Police. Photo: Republic of Fiji Military Forces (http://www.rfmf.mil.fj/news/Change%20of%20Guards.html) . &#160; Revelations that the Fijian military-bureaucratic regime has rejected important aspects of the draft constitution submitted by ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Analytic Brief: Elite Exodus as a political indicator.</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2012/11/20/analytic-brief-elite-exodus-as-a-political-indicator/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2012 23:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Analytic Brief: Elite Exodus as a political indicator. Analysis &#8211; By Paul G. Buchanan. Introduction: In an earlier brief 36th Parallel Assessments highlighted the forecasting potential of capital flight. In that brief difference was made between foreign and domestic capital flight as indicators of regime instability. In this brief attention shifts to an overlapping phenomenon that ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Analytic Brief: A Romney Foreign Policy and the Southwestern Pacific.</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2012/09/21/analytic-brief-a-romney-foreign-policy-and-the-southwestern-pacific/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2012 16:44:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Analytic Brief: A Romney Foreign Policy in the Southwestern Pacific. Analysis – By Dr. Paul G. Buchanan. Introduction: 36th Parallel Assessments Founding Partner Dr. Paul G. Buchanan has been traveling in the US for a month. He has had an opportunity to observe the US election campaign from both coasts, and in this brief discusses the ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Analysis: A different sort of BRIC (Australia in comparative perspective).</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2012/08/14/analysis-a-different-sort-of-bric-australia-in-comparative-perspective/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2012 21:53:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Analysis: A different type of BRIC (Australia in comparative perspective). In this installment of the 36th Parallel series of analytic briefs, the focus is on Australia compared to other rising middle powers, including three of the BRICs: Brazil, Russia, India. Analysis &#8211; By Dr. Paul G. Buchanan. Although it may irk the okkers, Australia can ]]></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>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2012/08/07/selwyn-manning-interviews-coalition-for-democracy-in-fijis-nik-naidu-on-fijis-slow-walk-back-to-democracy/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Selwyn Manning]]></dc:creator>
		<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>Deconstructing New Zealand Foreign Policy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2012 04:19:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Deconstructing New Zealand Foreign Policy. Analysis &#8211; By Dr. Paul G. Buchanan. Introduction: New Zealand&#8217;s post-Cold War foreign policy has been characterized by a pragmatic orientation in which matters of principle are balanced against objective assessments of interest. In recent years the commitment to the &#8220;principled but pragmatic&#8221; foreign policy has come into question, as has ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Analytic Brief: Managing Policy Fade</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2012/07/19/analytic-brief-managing-policy-fade/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 22:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Analytic Brief: Managing Policy Fade* From time to time 36th Parallel Assessments offers analytic briefs on subjects of diplomatic, geopolitical and strategic interest. This week’s topic is policy fade. Analysis &#8211; By Paul G. Buchanan. Deployment of Fijian soldiers and police as UN peacekeepers after the 2006 military coup in that country is a good ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Fiji&#8217;s Military Regime Deploys More Personnel To UN Ops Than Australia, Canada, New Zealand Combined</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Selwyn Manning]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2012 00:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Fiji&#8217;s Military Regime Deploys More Personnel To UN Ops Than Australia, Canada, New Zealand Combined Dispatch/Forecast &#8211; by Selwyn Manning. Since the 2006 Fiji coup Commodore Voreqe (Frank) Bainimarama&#8217;s military-led government has remained fully engaged with the United Nations while incrementally increasing the number of troops and police it contributes to UN peacekeeping operations to ]]></description>
		
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		<title>Analytic Brief: Political Learning and the PNG Elections.</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2012/07/06/political-learning-png-elections/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2012 22:37:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Analytic Brief: Political Learning and the PNG Elections. From time to time 36th Parallel Assessments publishes broadly conceptual or theoretical essays as in-house background that can be used to guide assessments. These are not meant to be detailed or comprehensive. Instead, they are designed to frame analysis of the subjects under discussion.In this analytic brief the ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Assessment: Partners But Not Allies &#8211; New Zealand and the US Sign The Washington Declaration</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2012/06/27/assessment-brief-partners-allies-new-zealand-us-sign-the-washington-declaration/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2012 22:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Assessment: Partners But Not Allies &#8211; New Zealand and the US Sign The Washington Declaration Assessment/Analysis &#8211; By Dr Paul G. Buchanan. On June 20 New Zealand Defense Minister Jonathan Coleman and US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta signed the Washington Declaration, which specifies priority areas of cooperation between the militaries of both countries.The Washington Declaration ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Interview: 95bFM&#8217;s Simon Maude IVs Selwyn Manning On The Washington Declaration</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Selwyn Manning]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2012 07:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Interview: 95bFM&#8217;s Simon Maude IVs Selwyn Manning On New Zealand Signing the USA&#8217;s Washington Declaration Military Pact 95bFM The Wire Counter-Clockwise Bulletin &#8211; Recorded live on 21/06/12: Main Points &#8211; On Wednesday June 20, New Zealand&#8217;s Minister of Defence Jonathan Coleman met with the United States&#8217; secretary of defense Leon Panetta at the Pentagon in ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>State of the Nation Brief: Samoa at 50</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 21:22:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[State of the Nation Brief: Samoa at 50 Analysis &#8211; By Dr Paul G. Buchanan. Samoa (also known as Western Samoa) celebrated 50 years of independence from New Zealand last month. Located between 13.35 degrees and 14.9 degrees South and 169.35 and 172.20 degrees West and consisting of nine islands, it is the oldest of ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Interview: 95bFM&#8217;s Simon Maude IVs Selwyn Manning On The Implications Of New Zealand Signing A NATO Security Pact</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Selwyn Manning]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2012 02:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Interview: 95bFM&#8217;s Simon Maude IVs Selwyn Manning On The Implications Of New Zealand Signing A NATO Security Pact 95bFM’s The Wire – Recorded live on 7/06/12: Selwyn Manning &#038; Simon Maude discuss the implications of New Zealand signing a NATO security pact titled Individual Partnership Cooperation Programme (IPCP). Background: This week New Zealand Prime Minister ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Analysis: New Zealand&#8217;s United Nations Security Council Bid</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 00:50:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Analysis: New Zealand&#8217;s United Nations Security Council Bid. 36th Parallel Assessments &#8211; Analysis By Dr Paul G. Buchanan Introduction:On May 24, 2012the foreign ministers of the United States of America and New Zealand met for bilateral meetings after the conclusion of the NATO Summit in Chicago. Afghanistan, Syria and Myanmar were topics of discussion, but ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 22:09:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Weekly Assessment: Intelligence Analytics Assessment &#8211; By Dr. Paul G. Buchanan. From time to time 36th Parallel Assessments will offer intelligence analytic briefs. These are quick, short-hand tools that give a rapid grasp on a given subject. The analytic brief is not meant to be a substitute for a full intelligence assessment. Instead, it serves ]]></description>
		
		
		
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