Jim Rolfe is the former Director of the Victoria University of Wellington's Centre for Strategic Studies who has just completed a term advising the United Arab Emirates Government on defence policy.
The det…
The world needs “naïve kiwi optimism”.
That was the key message from Prime Minister Bill English before a packed audience of diplomats, top civil servants, academics and former politicians at the Ins…
The restoration of relations yesterday with Israel marks the end of what appears to have been an intense and divisive standoff within the Cabinet and National Party.
The standoff saw the Prime Minister., Bi…
President Trump’s Secretary of State who made a flying visit to Wellington yesterday proved to be anything but an “America First” isolationist.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson surprised the Prime Min…
The announcement over the weekend that the 11 members of the Trans Pacific Partnership will go ahead without the USA is something of a personal triumph for Trade Minister Todd McClay.
He has been criss cros…
