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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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		<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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=4957</guid>
		<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>WTF??!!&#8211;or is it simply a matter of money talking?</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/05/wtf/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/05/wtf/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 11:37:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[cultural difference]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=4945</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Little does it matter, apparently, that the bastion of Wahhabist extremism and medieval authoritarian gender/sexual  weirdness has never fully repudiated the 9/11 attacks and offered nothing outside of its borders to combat that scourge even though most of the 9/11 perpetrators were Saudi (if anyone can name a Saudi combat deployment anywhere outside of Saudi [...]]]></description>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Intelligence and Security]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=4929</guid>
		<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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		<slash:comments>25</slash:comments>
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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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=4906</guid>
		<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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		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[International relations]]></category>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>
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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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		<slash:comments>2</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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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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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>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/10/on-resuming-intelligence-sharing-with-the-us/#comments</comments>
		<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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		<title>Is Iran a Menace?</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/10/is-iran-a-menace/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/10/is-iran-a-menace/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 07:13:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Concerns about the alleged Iranian nuclear weapons programme have escalated in recent weeks with 1) the revelation of a previously unknown uranium enrichment facility outside of Qum (although the claim that the facility was a secret and unknown to Western intelligence is a bit dubious), 2) reports of Russian weapons scientists involvement in the Iranian [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>31</slash:comments>
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		<title>John Rides the Fence</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/10/john-rides-the-fence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/10/john-rides-the-fence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:55:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Besides serving as a prop for some Letterman piss-taking, John Key&#8217;s visit to the the UN allows us to finally see the contours of National&#8217;s foreign policy. It can be captured in a neat phrase: firmly straddling the fence.
At the UN Mr. Key made all the right noises, speaking about fighting climate change, reducing carbon [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Blog Link: The Giant&#8217;s Rival Part Two: The US responds.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/09/blog-link-the-giants-rival-part-two-the-us-responds/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/09/blog-link-the-giants-rival-part-two-the-us-responds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:21:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The second part of the series on China&#8217;s growing presence in the South Pacific is now on Scoop. It explores the US response.
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		<title>Blog Link: China on the Horizon, Part One.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/09/china-on-the-horizon-part-one/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:07:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been working on a project focused on the growing Chinese presence in the South Pacific. It will eventually materialise as a magazine or journal article, but as I worked on the draft I decided it would make for a decent &#8220;Word from Afar&#8221; column at Scoop. Because of its length I have cut [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On why War is not a funny thing, or a reason to profit.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/09/on-why-war-is-not-a-funny-thing-or-a-reason-to-profit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/09/on-why-war-is-not-a-funny-thing-or-a-reason-to-profit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 12:23:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The title of this post is deceiving, as I am not about to write about the futility or morbidity of war, particularly in its pursuit of commercial gain. Instead, I write about a more mundane aspect of war, with a NZ angle.
To wit: I was asked by a Herald reporter about the photos of NZDF [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the possible merger of NZ spy agencies.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/09/on-the-possible-merger-of-nz-spy-agencies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/09/on-the-possible-merger-of-nz-spy-agencies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I originally posted this as a comment on Kiwiblog, but it is worth elaboration. I am not so much interested as why  sensitive documents somehow managed to be dropped on a public street into the path of a journalist, which, if interesting, is inconsequential in the larger scheme of things. The real issue is the [...]]]></description>
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