This paper discusses New Zealand's role in the global market for tertiary education. The internationalization and liberalization of education markets is progressing rapidly in today's globalizing world, as reflected by the incorporation of education as a service into the GATS framework. Through...

Contemporary research has frequently stressed the resilience of welfare states facing internal and external problem pressure or ideologically motivated attacks. Theoretical explanations of welfare state change have in part been eclipsed by explanations of its remarkable stability. But does the...

Steam and Istmus canals -- Planters, traders and labour in the South Pacific -- Fiji: the start of Anglo-German rivalry in the Pacific -- The Somoa conflict -- Germany enters the colonial race -- The New Guinea protectorates -- Great Britain, Russia and the Central Asian question -- Samoa...

The decision in the South China Sea arbitration in relation to the interpretation of art 121(3) of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea has broad implications for states not party to the case. New Zealand, like many other countries, claims an exclusive economic zone and...

The United Kingdom, since the end of the Second World War, has not been vitally trade or defence dependent on Australia. Australia since the advent of European Economic Community has not been vitally trade dependent on the United Kingdom. There are continuing trade and investment relationships...

European identity is as much a contested concept as is the role of the European Union in foreign affairs. This article combines the two concepts and introduces a third variable, the Other, in order to address the following questions: How do non-Europeans perceive the EU on the world stage? Is a...