Category Archives: Global Governance

Ship of fools

  Blog No. 53.     The ship of fools is an allegory, originating from [...]

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Russian Veto – Blog No. 49.

Recently and to the publicly expressed disappointment of New Zealand’s Foreign Minister, Murray McCully, who [...]

Nuclear Dangers – Blog No. 44.

      In a previous life, not only was I trained in the theory [...]

NZ Defence White Paper 2015 – Blog No. 40.

  Background: In the New Zealand International Review of May/June 2015, Gerry Brownlee, the Minister [...]

Medley No. 1 – Blog No. 39.

  It is only in the past seventy years that there has ever been the [...]

Israel and New Zealand’s seat on the Security Council – Blog No. 38.

The war against ISIS being waged by the Iraqi government (with New Zealand tagging along) [...]

Social inequality and child poverty – Blog No. 37.

  In dealing with the matters of poverty and social inequality contained in this post, [...]

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Green Action on Climate Change – Blog No. 36.

  Other than the belief, prevalent in certain Washington think tanks, that the USA could [...]

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The Social Progress index 2015: NZ v. Yemen – Blog No. 34.

  For many years, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has been the measure most frequently [...]

New Zealand joins the war against ISIS – Blog No. 29.

It is clear that New Zealand’s entry into the Iraqi civil war is a war [...]