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		<title>Blog Link: National Cuts and Runs.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/07/blog-link-national-cuts-and-runs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/07/blog-link-national-cuts-and-runs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 01:23:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recent events strongly suggest that in spite of its supportive rhetoric, National is planning to withdraw the NZDF commitment to the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan as early as next year. Rather than just state why it has decided that the fight is no longer worth fighting, National is attempting to mask the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>28</slash:comments>
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		<title>Blog Link: Two Sides of the Afghan COIN.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/06/blog-link-two-sides-of-thee-afghan-coin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/06/blog-link-two-sides-of-thee-afghan-coin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=5128</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the most recent &#8220;Word from Afar&#8221; column at Scoop I examine the broader context in which General Stanley McChrystal was forced to resign from his position as commander of US and ISAF forces in Afghanistan. Beyond the issue of his insubordination and civilian control of the military in a democracy, the incident has brought [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>From a principled but pragmatic to a pandering approach to foreign policy.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/06/from-a-principled-but-pragmatic-to-a-pandering-approach-to-foreign-policy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/06/from-a-principled-but-pragmatic-to-a-pandering-approach-to-foreign-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 05:11:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International relations]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=5118</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My latest article on New Zealand foreign policy after the Cold War has appeared in Political Science Quarterly. Unfortunately the article is behind a pay wall but there is a synopsis that outlines its basic thrust (copyright provisions prevent me from reproducing it here). In the essay I examine the economic, diplomatic and military threads [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>A Diplomatic Dilemma: Kowtow or Confront?</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/06/a-diplomatic-dilemma-kowtow-or-confront/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/06/a-diplomatic-dilemma-kowtow-or-confront/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 05:53:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=5072</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The manhandling of Green Party leader Russell Norman by Chinese security guards as they escorted a high-level delegation into Parliament raises some thorny questions for the government. Norman was protesting in favour of a free Tibet when his flag was taken from him and he was shoved to the ground. Technically speaking, he was exercising [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>53</slash:comments>
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		<title>Hedging uncertainty in times of international flux.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/06/hedging-uncertainty-in-times-of-international-flux/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/06/hedging-uncertainty-in-times-of-international-flux/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 09:32:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=4998</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[(Note to readers: this post has been updated as it reflects my deeper engagement with the subject within the confines of a short blog post. It may seem academic but I post it here as a first swipe at an extremely policy-relevant subject).
We are living in an international transitional moment. Transitional moments are the periods [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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		<title>Israel is the North Korea of the Middle East&#8211;or why running an Israeli blockade is a bad idea.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/05/israel-is-the-north-korea-of-the-middle-east-or-why-running-an-israeli-blockade-is-a-bad-idea/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/05/israel-is-the-north-korea-of-the-middle-east-or-why-running-an-israeli-blockade-is-a-bad-idea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 08:03:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The facts are still not completely in and will undoubtedly be the focus of much dispute, but it appears that while it was in international waters Israeli forces stormed the &#8220;freedom flotilla&#8221; headed to Gaza with humanitarian aid and several hundred pro-Palestinian activists, including Turkish parlamentarians, a holocaust survivor and a nobel laureate. The Israelis [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>52</slash:comments>
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		<title>Does New Zealand have a Strategic Culture?</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/05/does-new-zealand-have-a-strategic-culture/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/05/does-new-zealand-have-a-strategic-culture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 04:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Given the pacifist tendencies of many KP readers, the question in the title of this post may seem unusual and of little importance. Little attention has been paid by most public media, much less the Left-leaning ones, to the issue of strategic culture both in general and with specific reference to Aotearoa. My interest in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dissecting North Korean Madness.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/05/dissecting-north-korean-madness/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/05/dissecting-north-korean-madness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 05:27:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forensic evidence examined by three independent experts confirms what was suspected all along: the 1200-ton South Korean frigate Cheonan was sunk on March 26 by a North Korean torpedo while cruising in South Korean waters near their common maritime border, with the loss of  46 lives. Not only were traces of RDX (a military grade [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>27</slash:comments>
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		<title>Thoughts about Key&#8217;s Afghan PR Exercise.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/05/thoughts-about-keys-afghan-pr-exercise/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/05/thoughts-about-keys-afghan-pr-exercise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 13:38:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=4678</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have seen and read the reports of John Key&#8217;s much anticipated &#8220;secret&#8221; trip to Afghanistan.  I must say that it is one of the more amateurish, cringe worthy attempts at symbolic politics I have seen in a long time&#8211;not quite as bad as George W. Bush&#8217;s &#8220;Mission Accomplished&#8221; carrier charade, but of the same [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Niwa Knobs.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/04/niwa-knobs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/04/niwa-knobs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 09:13:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
***THIS POST HAS BEEN UPDATED ON APRIL 17 TO ACCOUNT FOR NEW INFORMATION RECEIVED***
Niwa has announced that a contract to upgrade the research vessel RV Tangaroa has been let to a Singaporean company rather than a NZ-based consortium. The EPMU and Labour Party have criticised the move, citing the fact that local jobs were at stake [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>27</slash:comments>
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		<title>Posted without comment</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/04/posted-without-comment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/04/posted-without-comment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 19:39:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; as none is necessary.

Attached to this article in Stuff&#8217;s splash spot.
L
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		<title>Being pro-Israel is not to be pro-Zionist or anti-Palestinian. To be anti-occupation is not anti-Semetic.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/03/being-pro-israel-is-not-to-be-pro-zionist-or-anti-palestinian-to-be-anti-occupation-is-not-anti-semetic/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/03/being-pro-israel-is-not-to-be-pro-zionist-or-anti-palestinian-to-be-anti-occupation-is-not-anti-semetic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 04:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=4404</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the ironies of the perennial Middle Eastern conflict is how the Western democratic Left shifted from a pro-Israeli position (held until the 1970s), to an anti-Israeli position during the last three decades. Much of this is Israel&#8217;s own fault, as its continued expansion into, and occupation of Palestinian lands in violation of the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>48</slash:comments>
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		<title>Outsourcing Counter-Espionage.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/03/outsourcing-counter-espionage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/03/outsourcing-counter-espionage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:46:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=4312</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The SIS recently released its 2008-2009 annual report. I will be analyzing it in further detail in a future &#8220;Word from Afar&#8221; column over at Scoop. However, I thought I would provide readers with a glimpse of one aspect of its activities that called my attention.
On page 14 (out of 29) of the report, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unfettered free trade is like having unprotected sex with strangers.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/03/unfettered-free-trade-is-like-having-unprotected-sex-with-strangers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/03/unfettered-free-trade-is-like-having-unprotected-sex-with-strangers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:13:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=4216</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Like a sexual addict, New Zealand has a dark obsession with free trade. The obsession may speak to a larger issue rather than the value of trade per se. That issue may be the pathology of NZ political-economic elites fantasising about trade benefits rather than the real benefits to their constituents.
 Whatever the case, the number of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Fragile Democracy, Authoritarian Persistence and Strategic Competition in the Western Pacific Rim.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/02/fragile-democracy-authoritarian-persistence-and-strategic-competition-in-the-western-pacific-rim/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/02/fragile-democracy-authoritarian-persistence-and-strategic-competition-in-the-western-pacific-rim/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 07:52:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That is the title of the talk I will be giving at the AUT Pacific Media Centre in Auckland on Friday February 12 at 5PM. I am starting to formulate the bases of the talk now because I arrive in Auckland just a couple of days before it happens, so I thought that I would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blog Link: Why the NZDF is in Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/01/blog-link-why-the-nzdf-is-in-afghanistan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/01/blog-link-why-the-nzdf-is-in-afghanistan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 01:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Controversy about the publication of SAS soldiers in action in Kabul last week, and the identification of one of them, has morphed into debate about the reasons why the NZDF is in Afghanistan. I have already outlined my views on the matter in previous posts here at KP, but the furore forced me to reflect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crumbling Walls and Simultaneous Transitions.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/11/crumbling-walls-and-simultaneous-transitions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/11/crumbling-walls-and-simultaneous-transitions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Among the celebrations and self-congratulations marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, perhaps it is worth mentioning the process involved as opposed to the event. Contrary to what some may think, this was not exactly a full triumph of freedom orchestrated by a Ronald Reagan-led US in the space of ten [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 2009 Defense Review.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/10/the-2009-defense-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:04:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Public consultation meetings about the 2009 Defense Review, which will result in a White Paper being published in early 2010, have now concluded. Yet, although the formal submission deadline for individuals and groups has passed, the review committee would be ill-advised to ignore short-term late submissions when they have another 4-5 months to go before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s prize: why not refuse it?</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/10/obamas-prize-why-not-refuse-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 02:27:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was as surprised as anyone else who&#8217;s been paying the smallest bit of attention to geopolitics this past year when Barack Obama was announced as the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. This is one issue on which many of his supporters and critics are apparently united: what has he done to deserve it?
Obama himself [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On resuming intelligence sharing with the US.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/10/on-resuming-intelligence-sharing-with-the-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 07:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I must confess that this one has me stumped. In her joint press conference with Murray McCully today, Hillary Clinton said that the US would resume intelligence-sharing with NZ as a sign of the strengthened security ties between the two countries.  It might have been a slip of the tongue, but McCully seemed unfazed and [...]]]></description>
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