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Bilateral Dialogues in Japan and China

In late July and early August 2008, a New Zealand delegation travelled to Tokyo and Beijing for a series of Track II discussions with Japanese and Chinese institutions. Click here to read more about the visits here; you can also download separate papers by two of the New Zealand participants.

CSCAP Regional Security Outlook

Nine prominent regional experts have teamed together to present their views on the real and urgent need for multilateral co-operation and institution-building to manage traditional and non-traditional security threats in the Asia-Pacific. The Council for Security Co-operation in the Asia-Pacific (CSCAP) Regional Security Outlook 2007, entitled Security through Co-operation: Furthering Asia-Pacific Multilateral Engagement, can be downloaded at the New Zealand Centre for Strategic Studies website. The CRSO will be an annual publication: the 2008 issue will be made available in early December this year. The annual meeting of the New Zealand CSCAP National Council was held in Wellington on 23 July 2008.

Same Bed, Different Dreams

New Zealand and Australia's diverging views on Asian regionalism are examined in this article by Terence O'Brien, Senior Fellow of the New Zealand Centre for Strategic Studies.

Is Track Two You?

The Asia New Zealand Foundation is developing a register of New Zealanders who have the skills, experience and expertise to contribute to New Zealand’s track two activities in the Asian region.

This register will serve as both a directory of track two expertise in New Zealand and as a source from which the Asia New Zealand Foundation will draw to choose delegates for its track two initiatives in the region.

If you are already actively involved in New Zealand’s track two activities, or you have the specialist background and aspiration to be involved, then please let us know.

If this is you and you’d like to be on our register, please email a copy of your CV, with your name, phone number, email address and a brief note about your current or proposed track two involvement to: Heather Judson, Project Officer, Policy and Research.

 
If you have any questions, please contact Dr Andrew Butcher, Director, Policy and Research by email or on (04) 470 8705.

Viet Nam-New Zealand Bilateral Dialogue – June 2008

Asia:NZ led the New Zealand delegation to the inaugural Viet Nam-New Zealand Track 1.5 bilateral dialogue in Ha Noi on 9-10 June 2008. The event is part of a framework of intensifying cooperation between the two countries and an initiative agreed by Prime Minister Helen Clark and President Nguyen Minh Triet during his State Visit to New Zealand in September 2007.

Click here for a brief summary of the event by Dr Andrew Butcher, Asia:NZ’s Director Research and Policy and a participant in the New Zealand delegation.

You can also view the topics discussed in Ha Noi and download copies of  the papers presented by both the New Zealand and Vietnamese delegations.

For copies of previous Track Two newsletters or research reports, click here.
 

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