New Zealand Foreign Policy Topic of Recent Article in Political Science Quarterly

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NEW YORK, June 9, 2010—The evolution of New Zealand’s foreign policy after the Cold War is discussed in the Summer 2010 issue of Political Science Quarterly in an article by Paul G. Buchanan, Senior Lecturer in Politics and Latin American Studies at the University of Auckland.

In “Lilliputian in Fluid Times: New Zealand Foreign Policy after the Cold War,” Buchanan argues that New Zealand’s ability to “punch above its weight” in contemporary international affairs was as much a product of fortuna as it was of policymaking virtu. It was only toward the end of the 1990s that a heterodox approach mixing realist, idealist, and constructivist ideas was confirmed as the basis for New Zealand’s engagement with the world.

Paul G. Buchanan is a Senior Lecturer in Politics and Latin American Studies at the University of Auckland. During the writing of this article he was Visiting Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore. He is the author of State, Labor, Capital: Democratizing Class Relations in the Southern Cone; Labour Politics in Small Open Democracies (with Kate Nicholls); and With Distance Comes Perspective: Essays on Politics, Security and International Affairs, as well as numerous published essays on comparative and international politics. He is currently working on a book titled Security Politics in Peripheral Democracies.

Published continually by the Academy of Political Science since 1886, Political Science Quarterly is the most widely read and accessible scholarly journal covering government, politics and policy. A nonpartisan journal, PSQ is edited for both political scientists and general readers with a keen interest in public and foreign affairs. PSQ is available in print and online at http://www.psqonline.org.
 

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