Faculty of Arts
Branch Meetings (open and free to the public)
New Zealand Institute of International Affairs Auckland Branch Seminar
Randy Berry
Principal Officer/ Consul General, U.S. Consulate General Auckland
Observations on the Path to
Peace in Nepal
6pm-7.30pm, Tuesday 4 May 2010
Case Room 3, Level 0, Owen G. Glenn Building (Business School)
12 Grafton Road, The University of Auckland
Nepal has undergone tremendous political and social change since the end of the decade-long civil conflict. With Constitution-making, political compromise, and addressing the country’s significant economic and developmental needs in the spotlight, progress in the full implementation of Nepal’s Comprehensive Peace Agreement is essential. Berry will highlight key themes, with a special emphasis on the support of the international community in supporting Nepal’s efforts.
Randy Berry took up his posting in Auckland in July 2009. He was previously Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Kathmandu from 2007-2009, including an extended period as Charge d’Affaires, a.i. Berry entered the Foreign Service in 1993, and has previously served in Bangladesh (1993-1995), Egypt (1996-1998), Uganda (1998-2002), and South Africa (2003-2007). He has also worked at the Department of State in Washington DC (2002-2003). Randy has been the recipient of the Department’s Superior Honor Award and eight individual Meritorious Honor Awards for his work. He speaks Arabic and Spanish. Berry was raised on a fourth-generation family cattle ranch in southern Colorado’s Custer County. He is a graduate of Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas, and pursued graduate studies at the University of Adelaide, South Australia as a Rotary Foundation Scholar.
New Zealand Institute of International Affairs Auckland Branch Seminar
Cleo Paskal
Associate Fellow at the Chathem House
Global Warring:
How Environmental, Economic and Political Crises Will Redraw the World Map
6pm-7.30pm, Thursday 1 April 2010
Lecture Theatre 018, Clock Tower Building, 22 Princes Street
Cleo is an Associate Fellow at Chatham House (Royal Institute of International Affairs, London) as well as a consultant for the US Department of Energy's Global Energy and Environment Strategic Ecosystem. Cleo specialises in the geopolitical and security implications of environmental change. One area she researches is what might happen to the legal status of nations, such as Tuvalu, that need to be evacuated due to rising sea level. If inundated, do they cease to exist as a country? Do they lose their seat in the UN? Do the waters become international waters?
The University Of Auckland – Faculty of Law
International Law Association (New Zealand Branch)
Maritime Law Association of Australia and New Zealand
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New Zealand Institute of International Affairs Auckland Branch Seminar
Professor Fred Soons
Utrecht University
The Resurgence of Maritime Piracy:
An International Law Perspective
6pm-7.30pm, Wednesday 19 August 2009
Lecture Theatre 032, Clock Tower Building, 22 Princes Street
Professor Soons teaches International Law of the Sea at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He is the Director of the Netherlands Institute for the Law of the Sea and works on boundary disputes between nations. In addition to his academic experience in maritime matters he has served with the Dutch Navy.
Piracy has been a historic scourge of merchant shipping, and its resurgence creates numerous legal and practical problems.
New Zealand Institute of International Affairs Auckland Branch Seminar
Daryl Copeland
Guerrilla Diplomacy:
Rethinking International Relations for the Globalisation Age
6pm-7.30pm, Monday 08 March 2010
Lecture Theatre 032, Clock Tower Building, 22 Princes Street
Daryl Copeland is an analyst, writer and educator on international policy, global issues, diplomacy and public management. His book, Guerrilla Diplomacy: Rethinking International Relations, was released in July 2009 by Lynne Rienner Publishers. His institutional affiliations include the University of Toronto's Munk Centre for International Studies, as Adjunct Professor and Senior Fellow, and the University of Southern California's Center on Public Diplomacy, as Research Fellow. Mr. Copeland serves as a peer reviewer for Canadian Foreign Policy, the International Journal, and The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, and is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Place Branding and Public Diplomacy.
From 1981 through 2009 Mr. Copeland worked as a Canadian diplomat with postings in Thailand, Ethiopia, New Zealand and Malaysia. During the 1980s and 1990s, he was elected five times to the Executive Committee of the Professional Association of Foreign Service Officers. From 1996-99 he was National Program Director of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs in Toronto and Editor of Behind the Headlines, then Canada's international affairs magazine. In 2000, he received the Canadian Foreign Service Officer Award for his “tireless dedication and unyielding commitment to advancing the interests of the diplomatic profession.”
Among his positions at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) in Ottawa, Mr. Copeland has worked as Deputy Director for International Communications; Director for Southeast Asia; Senior Advisor, Public Diplomacy; Director of Strategic Communications Services; and, Senior Advisor, Strategic Policy and Planning.
New Zealand Institute of International Affairs Auckland Branch and New Zealand Centre for Latin American Studies Joint Seminar
Carlos Eduardo de Freitas
Former Director of the Brazilian Central Bank
Brazil and the global economic crisis:
What it means to New Zealand
12-1pm, Tuesday 1 September 2009
Upstairs Dining Room, Old Government House, The University of Auckland
New Zealand Institute of International Affairs Auckland Branch Seminar
Cliff May
President of the 'Foundation for Defense of Democracies'
Energy Options -
Why the West should - and could - end its reliance on oil
6pm-7.30pm, Wednesday 19 August 2009
Lecture Theatre 032, Clock Tower Building, 22 Princes Street
Cliff May is the President of the 'Foundation for Defense of Democracies' a leading Washington institute that focuses on terrorism and was created immediately following the September 11 attacks on the United States.
He is also Chairman of the Policy Committee of the 'Committee on the Present Danger', an international, non-partisan organization also based in Washington D.C. comprised of leading members of the national security community.
A veteran news reporter, foreign correspondent and editor (New York Times and other publications), he has covered stories in many countries, including Iran, Pakistan, Sudan, Ethiopia, China, Uzbekistan, Northern Ireland and Russia and has been a frequent guest on national and international television and radio news programmes.
He writes a weekly column nationally distributed by Scripps Howard News Service and he is a regular contributor to National Review Online, The American Spectator and other publications.
From 1997 to 2001, he served as the Director of Communications for the Republican National Committee. In that role, he was the Republican Party's staff spokesman, and appeared frequently on national television and radio programs.
In 2006 he was appointed advisor to the Iraq Study Group (Baker-Hamilton Commission) of the United States Institute of Peace.
He also received a two-year appointment to the bipartisan Advisory Committee on Democracy Promotion, reporting to Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice.
New Zealand Institute of International Affairs Auckland Branch Event
NZ Defence Review: Public Consultation Meeting
6.30pm-8.00pm, Thursday 13 August 2009
Case Room 4, Level 0, Owen G. Glenn Building (Business School)
12 Grafton Road, The University of Auckland
The New Zealand government is conducting a defence review and has started its public consultation process. Defence Minister Dr Wayne Mapp will be in Auckland on13 August for that purpose. Come to hear what security experts have to say and let others hear what you have to say.
Academics from Department of Political Studies to lead off the discussion:
Prof Gerald Chan; A/Prof Steve Hoadley; Dr Jian Yang, Dr Maria Rublee and Mr Greg Rublee
For more information about the review, see http://www.defence.govt.nz/defence-review.html
Wynyard Road Entrance to Level 0, Grafton Road Entrance to Level 1(lifts to your left) or parking under the Owen G. Glenn building (taking a lift to Level 0). We will have people around the building to direct you to the venue.
New Zealand Institute of International Affairs Auckland Branch Seminar
Hew Strachan
Chichele Professor of the History of War
University of Oxford
Reflections on the British Experience of the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars
6pm-7.30pm, Thursday 30 July 2009
Lecture Theatre 018, Clock Tower Building, 22 Princes Street
Prof Strachan is currently visiting Centre for Strategic Studies: New Zealand as Sir Howard Kippenberger Chair in Strategic Studies. His publications include:
• European armies and the conduct of war. (London, 1983)
• Wellington's legacy: The reform of the British Army 1830-54. (Manchester, 1984)
• From Waterloo to Balaclava: Tactics, technology and the British Army. (Cambridge, 1985)
• The politics of the British Army. (Oxford, 1997)
• (ed.) The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War . (Oxford, 1998) 356pp.
• The First World War: Volume 1: To Arms. Vol 1 (Oxford, 2001) 1227pp.
• The First World War: A New Illustrated History. (London, 2003) 350pp.
• 'German Strategy in the First World War' in Internationale Beziehungen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. (Paderborn, 2003) pp. 127-144
• 'Wer war schuld? Wie es zum Ersten Weltkrieg kam' in Der 1. Weltkrieg. Die Ur-Katastrophe des 20.Jahrhunderts. (2004) pp. 240-255
• The First World War in Africa. (Oxford, 2004) 224pp.
• Financing the First World War. (Oxford, 2004) 268pp.
• The Outbreak of the First World War. (Oxford, 2004) 299pp.
New Zealand Institute of International Affairs Auckland Branch Seminar
Ralph Begleiter
Rosenberg Professor of Communication
University of Delaware
Distinguished Journalist in Residence
Former CNN World Affairs Correspondent
The Challenges to Journalism
6pm-7.30pm, Sunday 19 July 2009
Lecture Theatre 032, Clock Tower Building, 22 Princes Street
Ralph Begleiter will speak on how the “new” (digital) media affected the 2008 US Presidential election campaign, and future challenges to journalism in the United States and internationally.
During two decades as CNN’s “world affairs correspondent,” Begleiter was the network’s most widely-travelled reporter. He has visited some 95 countries on 6 continents. At CNN during the 1980’s and 1990’s, he covered U.S. diplomacy, interviewed countless world leaders, hosted a global public affairs program called “Global View,” and co-anchored CNN’s prestigious “International Hour.” In 1998, Begleiter wrote and anchored a 24-part series on the Cold War. He covered many historic events at the end of the 20th century, including virtually every high-level Soviet/Russian-American meeting; the Persian Gulf Crisis in 1990-91; the Dayton Bosnia Accords; and Middle East Peace efforts. Begleiter has received numerous press awards including, in 1994, the Weintal Prize from Georgetown University’s Graduate School of Foreign Service, one of diplomatic reporting’s highest honours.
AUT University, International Relations and The New Zealand Institute of International Affairs Auckland Branch Seminar
H.E. Kasit Piromya
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Thailand
The current situation in Thailand and its prospects
9th July 2009, 5.30pm-6.45pm
AUT University Council Room, 7th floor of WA building, Wellesley Street Entrance
55 Wellesley Street East, Auckland City
Please RSVP to : Cushla Matheson ph 09 921 9495, Or email cmatheso@aut.ac.nz
New Zealand Institute of International Affairs Auckland Branch Seminar
North Korea Update:
Politics, Security and Disarmament
Korean Perspective: Changzoon Song, Lecturer, Asian Studies
US Perspectives: Maria Rublee, LEcturer, Political Studies
Chinese Perspectives: Jian Yang, Senior Lecturer, Political Studies
6pm-7.30pm, Thursday 4 June 2009
Lecture Theatre 215, Level 2, Arts 1 Building, 14A Symonds Street
New Zealand Institute of International Affairs Auckland Branch Seminar
Terry Michael
Executive Director, Washington Center for Politics and Journalism
Obama’s First One Hundred Days
6pm-7.30pm, Tuesday 2 June 2009
Lecture Theatre 032, Clock Tower Building, 22 Princes Street
A review of President Obama’s domestic and foreign policy achievements and set-backs in the first months of his presidency; and a look at his electoral and political popularity and problems – the media aspects in particular.
Terry Michael is founder and executive director of the Washington Center for Politics and Journalism (http://www.wcpj.org/), which sponsors “The Politics & Journalism Semester,” to teach future political reporters about politics. Recent seminar speakers during WCPJ’s Winter/Spring 2009 Semester have included former Secretary of State Gen. Colin Powell, Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin, and President Obama's pollster, Joel Benenson.
Michael was a reporter and has been a political press secretary for the Democratic National Committee, as well as a former press secretary for Congressman (and later Senator) Paul Simon (D-IL) and Congressman Robert Matsui (D-CA). He has been a presidential primary campaign spokesman, including service as director of communication for the Paul Simon for President committee,1987-88.
New Zealand Institute of International Affairs Auckland Branch Seminar
Charles Asher Small
Director, Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism
Yale University
Understanding the Challenge of Iran
6pm-7.30pm Wednesday 6 May 2009
Lecture Theatre 032 Clock Tower Building, 22 Princes Street
Charles Small has a Doctorate of Philosophy (D.Phil) from St. Anthony’s College, Oxford University. Currently he is a lecturer in Ethics, Politics and Economics Program at the Political Science Department and at the Institute for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University.
New Zealand Institute of International Affairs Auckland Branch Seminar
HE Mr Urmas Paet
Minister of Foreign Affairs for Estonia
Baltic Security
10.30am, Friday 17 April 2009
Upstairs Dining Room, Old Government House, The University of Auckland
The University of Auckland-Faculty of Law
International Law Association (New Zealande Branch) And
New Zealand Institute of International Affairs Auckland Branch (Auckland Branch) Seminar
Sir Kenneth Keith
Judge of the International Court of Justice
150 Years since the Battle of Solferino: Current Implications for Humanitarian Law
6pm Wednesday 1 April 2009
3rd Floor, Stone Lecture Threatre
Law School Building 801, 9 Eden Crescent
All Welcome
It is 150 years since Henri Dunant witnessed the horrors of the Battle of Solferino, spurring him on to found the Red Cross. Since then, International Humanitarian Law has grown and developed. Sir Kenneth Keith explores those developments and in particular considers the current legal framework in the light of contemporary conditions.
New Zealand Institute of International Affairs Auckland Branch Seminar
Simon Nicholson
American University
The Hungry Billion:
Making Sense of the Global Food Crisis
6pm-7.30pm Thursday 12 March 2009
Lecture Theatre 032 Clock Tower Building, 22 Princes Street
During the early months of 2008 more than two dozen countries were rocked by food riots. Sharply rising prices for basic commodities pushed people to take to the streets around the world, from South America to Southern Africa. News of these riots has since faded from the pages of the world’s newspapers. Yet still, today, the global food crisis has not receded. Most tellingly, there remain more than one billion people around the world who are chronically hungry. How can this be? And what is to be done? This talk will examine the roots of the current global food crisis and consider the way ahead. Along the way, this talk will explore some of the limitations with traditional ways of thinking about hunger, and identify some emerging, promising signs of a fairer, more secure global food future.
Dr Simon Nicholson is an Assistant Professor in the School of International Service at American University in Washington D.C. His work focuses on the politics of food and agriculture, on global environmental concerns, and on issues involving emerging technologies. He is currently working on a book titled Governing the Gene: The Politics of Transgenic Agriculture and the Future of Food.
New Zealand Institute of International Affairs Auckland Branch Seminar
Jerry Jordan
The Fraser Institute
Economic and Financial Crisis:
Origins and Consequences
6pm-7.30pm Tuesday 03 March 2009
Lecture Theatre 032 Clock Tower Building, 22 Princes Street
Dr. Jerry Jordan became president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland in March 1992 and retired in January 2003. In his capacity of the President of the Reserve Bank of Cleveland, he was a member of the Fed Open Market Committee which is responsible for setting Fed’s interest rates.
Dr. Jordan worked in government, academia and commercial banking. After receiving a Ph.D. in economics at U.C.L.A., he was employed at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, rising to the position of senior vice president and director of research. Dr. Jordan's commercial banking experience includes five years at Pittsburgh National Bank and seven years at First Interstate Bancorp in Los Angeles. Dr. Jordan served as a Member of President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers in 1981-82, during which time he was also a member of the U.S. Gold Commission. Preceding and following his service in Washington, he was dean of the R.O. Anderson School of Management at the University of New Mexico.
Dr. Jordon is a member of the Mont Pelerin Society, the Academic Advisory Council of The Institute of Economic Affairs in London, and the Business Advisory Board of the Reason Foundation. He is also a senior fellow at The Fraser Institute, an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute and a past president of the National Association of Business Economists.
New Zealand Institute of International Affairs Auckland Branch Seminar
Join us as prominent parliamentarians outline and debate their parties’ vision for New Zealand’s place in the wider world.
Pre-election Foreign Policy Forum:
The Future of New Zealand Foreign Policy
Speakers:
Hon Jim Anderton: (Progressive)
Hon Phil Goff: (Labour)
Mr Keith Locke: (Green)
Hon Murry McCully: (National)
Mt Peter Tashkoff: (Act)
Time:
6:15pm to 8pm, Wednesday 8 October 2008
Venue:
The University of Auckland Business School
Fisher & Paykel Appliances Auditorium
Owen G Glenn Building
12 Grafton Road
Auckland City
Chair: Brian Lynch, Director of the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs
Organisers: the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs Auckland Branch, Department of Political Studies
New Zealand Institute of International Affairs Auckland Branch Seminar
Burma/Myanmar Update:
Naing Ko Ko
The Struggle for Democracy in Burma
Steve Green
Environmental Devastation in Burma
6pm-7.30pm, 25 September
Lecture Theatre 018
Clock Tower Building
22 Princes Street
Naing Ko Ko, Burmese political activist, student, and refugee in New Zealand since 2006. He was a student leader during the 1988 Burmese Democracy Uprising and a political prisoner for seven years.
Steve Green, New Zealand environmental activist, who has lived in the Thai-Burma border area since 1989, working with ethnic and indigenous minority groups such as the Karen, Mon and Shan people. His recent research has focused on proposed Hydro dam projects on the Salween River in Burma, and in China, with potentially disastrous effects in this earthquake-prone area.
New Zealand Institute of International Affairs Auckland Branch Seminar
Wayne Mapp, MP
Defence :
An Emerging Consensus of the New Zealand Mission
6pm-7.30pm, 13 August
Lecture Theatre 029
Clock Tower Building
22 Princes Street
Dr Wayne Mapp entered Parliament in 1996 as the constituent member for North Shore with a majority of 10,348. He has continued to represent North Shore following subsequent elections. He has been spokesman in portfolio areas including Justice, Immigration, Foreign Affairs and Labour and Industrial Relations. He is currently the Spokesman for Defence and Auckland Issues. He chairs the Caucus Policy Committee and is a member of the Strategy Committee.
New Zealand Institute of International Affairs Auckland Branch Seminar
John Goodman
Globalization and its Myths
6pm-7.30pm, 30 July
Lecture Theatre 032
Clock Tower Building
22 Princes Street
General opinion today has it that the nation state is under pressure from all sides in a ‘borderless world’. The state is shrinking before the forces of international integrations and homogeneity, imposed by a relentless juggernaut of liberal economic and political ideas originating from the ‘Washington consensus”. The process is said to be irreversible, although it takes several forms. Some see sovereignty along with power and authority evaporating upwards to remoter supranational bodies, which impose rules and norms constraining the free choice of governments; others see it percolating downwards to the regions, carving out islands of separatism beyond the reach of central governments. For others again, power is leaching sideways to transnational corporations, some of which, as the common saying has it, have ‘total assets greater than the GDP of many sovereign states’. Globalization is thus re-configuring the state and sovereignty under our noses. Or is it? The claims are often taken as self-evident but what if anything is evident about them? In short, do they stand up to analysis for either New Zealand or for the wider world?
John Goodman is a former career diplomat who has served in Geneva, Brussels, Tehran and, as Ambassador to Micronesia. He has represented New Zealand in trade access and economic policy negotiations at the GATT/WTO; at the UN in New York; with the European Union in Brussels and at the OCECD in Paris. His roles in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Wellington, have included assignments as Assistant Head of Legal Division (with responsibility for trade law and international criminal law), Economic Division (international trade and financial institutions) and as Head of Delegation for officials’ delegations to: WTO negotiations on trade in services; Climate Change meetings in Bonn and Forum Fisheries and other negotiations in the Pacific. He has served as a member of the (former) GATT dispute settlement panel. Currently, he is an independent writer on international issues, writing from his professional experience. He is currently Chair of the Advisory Board of the Europe Institute of Auckland University.
New Zealand Institute of International Affairs Auckland Branch Seminar
Chris Heffelfinger
Reconsidering US/Western Policy against Global Terrorism
6pm, Thursday 17 July
Room 032, Clock Tower Building
University of Auckland
22 Princes Street
Chris Heffelfinger is an independent researcher affiliated with the Combating Terrorism Center at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point. He is also the editor of Unmasking Terror: A Global Review of Terrorist Activities (Vol I and II, The Jamestown Foundation). For articles by Chris, please see:
http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/analysts.php?authorid=336
http://www.jamestown.org/press_details.php?press_id=23
The University of Auckland Europe Institute and New Zealand Institute of International Affairs Auckland Branch Seminar
Andreas Gross
Senior Swiss MP and leader of the Social Democratic Group in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE)
Transnational Democracy as the Main Challenge of European Integration
4-5pm Tuesday 17 June 2008
Room 616, Arts 1, 14A* Symond Street
All Welcome
Andreas Gross, Japan born Swiss political scientist and historian, is a senior Swiss MP and leader of the social democratic group in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). In the Council of Europe he has been special rapporteur for Chechnya, UN-Reform, the conflict resolving potentials of autonomous regions, and the state of Democracy in Europe. Vice president of the PACE 2004 and 2005 as well as 2008, Chairman of the Committee for Institutional Affairs of the Swiss Parliament 2006 and 2007. He is a specialist on Direct Democracy and lecturer on the global comparison of Direct Democracy at German Universities and Swiss High School since 1993. Many of his publications cab be found on www.andigross.ch
*14A (206 on the University map) is behind 14 Symonds Street and the path between 12 and 14 Symonds Street leads to 14A (level 3). You may also use the Symonds Street underpass (to level 3) or the over-bridge (to level 4). Please see the map in the attached PDF file
New Zealand Institute of International Affairs Auckland Branch Seminar
Róger Calero and Chauncey Robinson
Free the Cuban Five
6pm-7.30pm, 19 May
Lecture Theatre 029
Clock Tower Building
22 Princes Street
The Cuban Five—Gerardo Hernández, René González, Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, and Fernando González—were arrested by the FBI in 1998 and convicted in a frame-up trial in Miami three years later of “conspiracy to commit espionage” for the Cuban government, “conspiracy to act as an unregistered foreign agent,” and, in the case of Hernández, “conspiracy to commit murder.” They are serving sentences ranging from 15 years to a double life term. The five men were in the United States gathering information on right-wing Cuban American groups based in southern Florida that have had an extensive record of carrying out violent attacks on Cuba from U.S. soil with Washington’s complicity.
Róger Calero, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for president of the United States, campaigns in solidarity with the Cuban Revolution. Last year he attended an international conference in Havana in solidarity with the Cuban 5. Over the past year in New York, he has helped build demonstrations for the freedom of the Five.
Chauncey Robinson, 22, is a garment worker. She is a member of the Young Socialists and Socialist Workers Party. She has participated in the, the international campaign to free the Cuban 5. She has been a Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Congress and for Sheriff of San Francisco. She currently resides in San Francisco and is a leader of Young Socialists for Calero and Kennedy in that city.
links: www. http://www.freethefive.org/
Róger Calero’s biography: http://www.themilitant.com/2008/7202/720253.html
Socialist Workers ’08 platform: http://www.themilitant.com/2008/7204/720450.html.
New Zealand Institute of International Affairs Auckland Branch Seminar
Maher Mughrabi
State of Siege:
Problems and Prospects for Palestinians and Israelis
6pm-7.30pm, 14 May
Lecture Theatre 029
Clock Tower Building
22 Princes Street
MAHER MUGHRABI is a Scottish-Palestinian journalist and writer with more than 12 years' experience on newsdesks in Britain (including The Independent, The Scotsman and The Daily Mail), the Middle East (Khaleej Times) and Australia who currently works as Foreign Desk News Editor for The Age in Melbourne. His work as a current affairs writer for The Age has dealt with Western perceptions of Islam, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the war in Iraq. Mughrabi has also lectured at Melbourne, Monash and La Trobe universities on the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, to the Melbourne Writers' Festival on the history of Zionism and to public audiences around Australia on Middle Eastern affairs and issues of Muslims and migration.
New Zealand Institute of International Affairs Auckland Branch Seminar
Professor Geoffrey Till
King's College London
Globalisation: Competing Security Implications
6pm-7.30pm, 8 April
Lecture Theatre 032, Clock Tower Building, 22 Princes Street
Professor Till is a naval historian, Professor of Maritime Studies at the Joint Services Command and Staff College and a member of the Defence Studies Department, part of the War Studies Group of King's College London. He is also the Director of the Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies. Professor Till has joined the Centre for Strategic Studies and the School of Government at Victoria University as the inaugural Sir Howard Kippenberger Chair in Strategic Studies.
New Zealand Institute of International Affairs Auckland Branch Seminar
Roger H. Davidson
2008 and the Future of the US as a World Power
6pm-7.30pm, 27 March 2008
Lecture Theatre 032, Clock Tower Building, 22 Princes Street
ROGER H. DAVIDSON is Professor Emeritus of Government and Politics atthe University of Maryland, College Park and Visiting Professor ofPolitical Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. From1980 to 1988 he held the post of Senior Specialist in American NationalGovernment and Public Administration with the Congressional ResearchService, U.S. Library of Congress. He is a Fellow of the NationalAcademy of Public Administration. Dr. Davidson was co-editor of thefour-volume Encyclopedia of the United States Congress, a multi-yearproject sponsored by the U.S. Constitution Bicentennial Commission andpublished in 1995 by Macmillan Library Reference. He is listed in Who'sWho in America and other reference volumes.
New Zealand Institute of International Affairs Auckland Branch Seminar
Amotz Asa-El
Behind the Headlines:
Middle East realities
6pm-7.30pm, 10 March
Lecture Theatre Eng3408 (403-408)
Engineering Building
20 Symonds Street
Amotz Asa-EI is former Executive Editor of the Jerusalem Post and author of The Diaspora and the Lost Tribes of Israel (2004, Hugh Lauter Levin). He won Bnai Brith Journalism Award twice.
The Auckland Branch of New Zealand Institute of International Affairs
&
New Zealand Asia Institute
Bronson Percival
Senior Advisor for Southeast Asia
Center for Strategic Studies
Center for Naval Analyses
Alexandria, VA
The Dragon Looks South: China’s growing influence in Southeast Asia
Lecture Theatre 032, Clock Tower Building
6pm-7.30pm
Tuesday 26 February
Bronson Percival is a former diplomat and professor. He specializes in South and Southeast Asian affairs, Islamic radicalism, and terrorism. He obtained his PhD from the University of Chicago and then worked at the State Department. Percival became a Professor at the U.S. Naval War College in 1999. After 9/11, he returned to help focus the State Department’s Intelligence & Research Bureau on Terrorism, and then to help coordinate counter-terrorism policies and programs for the East Asian Bureau. Since accepting his current position in 2004, Percival has written a book on China’s growing influence in Southeast Asia. The Dragon Looks South: China and Southeast Asia in the New Century was published in June 2007. Percival has testified before Congress on Asian and terrorism issues.
NZIIA Auckland Branch and United Nations Association of New Zealand Joint Public Lecture
Nick Smith
Chair
NZ Section of the Parliamentary Network for Nuclear Disarmament
Other speakers to be confirmed
Securing our Survival:
The Case for a Nuclear Weapons Convention
Conference Centre
University of Auckland, 22 Symonds St
7pm-9pm 24 October 2007
New Zealand Institute of International Affairs Auckland Branch Seminar
Middle East and Africa Issues
Rene Wilson: Ambassador to Egypt
Hamish Cooper: Ambassador to Turkey
Hamish MacMaster: Ambassador to Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan
Trevor Matheson: Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Oman
Malcolm McGoun: Ambassador to South Africa, Botswana, Kenya, Lesotho, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe
5pm-6.30pm Tuesday 9 October 2007
Conference Centre, University of Auckland, 22 Symonds Street
NZIIA Auckland Branch and Soka Gakkai International of NZ Joint Public Lecture
Anwarul K. Chowdhury
Former United Nations Under-Secretary-General &
High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries & Small Island Developing States
Culture of Peace--Beacon of hope for our time
Engineering lecture theatre room 401
Auckland University, 20 Symonds St
6:15pm for 6:30pm start on Monday 13 August 2007
New Zealand Institute of International Affairs Auckland Branch Seminar
Hagai Segal
New York University in London
US Foreign Policy after 'George Dubya' - Dealing with Iraq, Iran,Israel-Palestine and al Qaeda post Bush
6pm-7.30pm Tuesday 31 July 2007
Lecture Theatre 029 Clock Tower Building, 22 Princes Street
Hagai M. Segal is a UK based lecturer, consultant, columnist and keynote speaker specialising in geo-strategic and economic risk, the Middle East and modern terrorism. He is a regular guest on numerous national and international TV channels (including CNN, BBC News 24, BBC World, Sky News and CNBC Europe), and numerous national and international radio stations. He also writes for a number of newspapers and publications around the world.
New Zealand Institute of International Affairs Auckland Branch Seminar
Malainan Lakhal
Secretary-General of the Saharawi Writers’ and Journalists’ Union
Western Sahara: Africa’s Last Colony
6pm-7.30pm Tuesday 24 July 2007
Lecture Theatre 032 Clock Tower Building, 22 Princes Street
50 years since Ghana won its independence the people of Western Sahara are still engaged in a political struggle for their national liberation. After forcing Spain’s withdrawal in 1975 the people of Western Sahara faced a new invader The Kingdom of Morocco, whose occupation remains despite international condemnation. What does self–determination mean for the people of Africa in the 21st century? Do the international institutions and investors act in the interests of African nations or do their competing interests fuel ongoing instability in the continent?
New Zealand Institute of International Affairs Auckland Branch and Political Studies Joint Seminar
Dr. Karen Litfin
University of Washington-Seattle
The Politics of Sacrifice in an Ecologically Full World
6pm-7.30pm Monday 25 June 2007
Lecture Theatre 018 Clock Tower Building, 22 Princes Street
Here I explore how sacrifice is commonly understood among both proponents and opponents of strict measures for environmental protection, and then show how sacrifice can be reconceptualized in support of an affirmative environmentalism. The basis for this rethinking is twofold: first, a revival of the traditional meaning of sacrifice: "to make sacred by offering;" and second, an inquiry into the individualistic and mechanistic premises of the predominant contemporary discourses on sacrifice.
New Zealand Institute of International Affairs Auckland Branch Seminar and The Alliance Française
Lucien Chabason
Strengthening International Environmental Governance:
Recent Developments, Next Steps
6pm-7.30pm Tuesday 19 June 2007
Lecture Theatre 032 Clock Tower Building, 22 Princes Street
Mr Lucien Chabason is Senior Adviser at the Institute of Sustainable Development and Foreign Affairs. He is also the President of the Blue Plan for Mediterranean and Professor of Environmental Policy at the Political Studies Institute of Paris.
New Zealand Institute of International Affairs Auckland Branch Seminar
Prof Ian Lilly
School of European Languages and Literatures
Recent Developments in Putin's Russia
6pm-7.30pm Tuesday 22 May 2007
Lecture Theatre 029 Clock Tower Building, 22 Princes Street
This seminar highlights several recent developments in contemporary Russia. There is much evidence for the emergence of a middle class and, along with it, of a vibrant consumer society. The vast wealth of the energy sector – oil, gas, electricity – is an increasingly significant driver of government largesse. At the same time, corporate Russia is extending its acquisitiveness to many parts of the world. As his term in office draws to a close, President Putin's successes and failures are placed in context.
New Zealand Institute of International Affairs Auckland Branch Seminar
His Excellency French Ambassador
Jean-Michel Marlaud
Where Should the European Union End?
6pm-7.30pm Tuesday 27 March 2007
Lecture Theatre 029 Clock Tower Building, 22 Princes Street
New Zealand Institute of International Affairs Auckland Branch Seminar
Dr. Zachary Abuza
Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts
The Potential for Terrorism in Southeast Asia and the Pacific - Militant Islam in Southeast Asia
6pm-7.30pm Thursday 1 March 2007
Lecture Theatre 018 Clock Tower Building, 22 Princes Street
Zachary Abuza is Associate Professor, Political Science & International Relations, Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts. He specializes in Southeast Asian politics and security issues. He received his PhD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He is the author of Uncivil Islam: Muslims, Politics and Violence in Indonesia (Routledge, 2006), Conspiracy of Silence: The Insurgency in Southern Thailand and its Implications for Southeast Asian Security (US Institute of Peace Press, 2006), Militant Islam in Southeast Asia (Lynne Rienner, 2003) and Renovating Politics in Contemporary Vietnam (Lynne Rienner, 2001). He has also authored two studies for the National Bureau of Asian Research, entitled Funding Terrorism in Southeast Asia: The Financial Network of Al Qaeda and Jemaah Islamiya, NBR Analysis (2003) and Muslims, Politics and Violence in Indonesia, NBR Analysis (2004). His monograph, Balik Terrorism: The Return of the Abu Sayyaf Group was published by the US Army War College's Security Studies Institute in 2005. He is currently undertaking a major study of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front under support from the United States Institute of Peace and the Smith Richardson Foundation.
Professor Abuza authored the Vietnam chapters in the 2004 and 2006 Countries at the Crossroads annual reports for Freedom House; and from 2001-2003 he served as Vietnam country advisor for Amnesty International (USA). In 2006-07 Professor Abuza has been on sabbatical and will be working on a regional security assessment, as part of a global five-year assessment of the war on terror. He spent the last month before coming to Australia and New Zealand embedded with anti-terrorist forces in the southern Philippines. Dr Abuza consults widely and is a frequent commentator in the press. He is a visiting guest lecturer at the Foreign Service Institute, US Department of State, and at the Department of Defense's Joint Special Operations University. In 2005 he was a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace.
New Zealand Institute of International Affairs Auckland Branch Seminar
