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Commentary
New Zealand Is Done with Speaking Softly to China
In three short years, New Zealand has gone from saying next to nothing about China to saying quite a lot. What has prompted New Zealand to suddenly take a firmer stand on China?
Dec 21, 2022
Journal Article
Acknowledging and Monitoring the Costs of Seriously Regulating Cannabis
Wilkins & Rychert highlight challenges to achieving the Cannabis Legalization and Control Bill's objectives of reducing cannabis use and harms.
Apr 13, 2021
Report
Regional Responses to U.S.-China Competition in the Indo-Pacific: Australia and New Zealand
In this report, the authors assess the perspectives of Australia and New Zealand as they implement their responses to China's more assertive foreign and security policy behavior in the Indo-Pacific and to a more competitive U.S.-China relationship.
Dec 17, 2020
Journal Article
Use and Non-Use Values of Auckland Council Amenities: Final Report
Auckland Council commissioned this study to quantify how much the public use and value local amenities. To fulfill the study needs, a survey was undertaken with Auckland residents to collect data on their usage of these amenities.
Dec 10, 2020
Commentary
RCEP Forms the World's Largest Trading Bloc. What Does This Mean for Global Trade?
In November, 15 nations signed the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), a free-trade agreement of economic and political significance eight years in the making. Why have some heralded RCEP as a landmark agreement?
Dec 9, 2020
Commentary
'Quad Plus' Meetings Won't Cover China
The “Quad” countries met with several non-Quad countries to help each other amid the coronavirus pandemic. For all the good that can come of these countries working together, the Quad Plus, if sustained, may eventually jeopardize the Quad's primary mission: to counter China's assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific.
Apr 9, 2020
Blog
Christchurch, Brexit, China and Israel: RAND Weekly Recap
This weekly recap focuses on the Christchurch shootings, how the UK can improve its post-Brexit prospects, China and Israel's evolving relationship, and more.
Mar 22, 2019
Commentary
The Christchurch Massacre Was Another Internet-Enabled Atrocity
Terrorism has become an internet-enabled abuse—incited, propagated, and sometimes organized and concealed by online activity. Who should be held accountable for abusive content, the author or the publisher? And what role should the government play in regulating it?
Mar 20, 2019
Commentary
Five Eyes at 70: Where to from Here?
The Five Eyes intelligence alliance of the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, Australia, and New Zealand began in the Cold War to meet the threat posed by the Soviet Union. Today, the nations' intelligence communities must contend with domestic terrorism and cyber threats while remaining ahead of Russia and China.
Apr 21, 2017
Journal Article
The Military Aspects of the US Rebalance to the Asia-Pacific
The contributions made in this volume point to the ongoing challenge of understanding the substance and direction of the relationship between NATO and four Asia-Pacific partners (Australia, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea).
Apr 11, 2016
Journal Article
A Promising Thaw
The relationship between New Zealand and the United States has seen ups and downs over the past 60 years, but the two countries have entered a new era characterized by the ability to agree to disagree.
Sep 1, 2014
Report
Framework for assessing, improving and enhancing health service planning
The report aims to contribute to policy learning across countries through developing and validating a framework for assessing, improving and enhancing healthcare planning and so presenting a potential tool for analysts and decision makers.
Dec 29, 2010
Report
Health and Medical Research in New Zealand: Health Research Observatory
Presents an overview of health and medical research in New Zealand.
Oct 17, 2008
Journal Article
Trends in Socioeconomic Disparities in Health Care Quality in Four Countries
Found socioeconomic disparities in health care quality and status for most of the indicators studied in four countries. These disparities in varied indicators underscore the importance of factors common to the systems or factors outside the system.
Feb 1, 2008
Journal Article
International Benchmark of Fraud and Error in Social Security Systems
This report, which was commissioned by the National Audit Office (NAO), presents the results of a benchmarking exercise investigating the issue of fraud and error in the social security systems of eight European and non-European countries.
Jul 20, 2006
Dissertation
Case Studies Help Efforts to Fix Failing Schools
New Zealand's experience with failing schools and intervention strategies for underperforming schools in California can be applied to other national and international efforts, including education reform in the Emirate of Qatar.
Mar 23, 2005
Report
Political and Strategic Relations (Australia-New Zealand-United States): The View from Washington
An assessment of ANZUS relations to be presented to a conference on this theme at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, February 1970.
Jan 1, 1970
Report
The Future Role of the United States in Asia and the Pacific.
The text of a statement to the Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs of the U.S. House of Representatives, suggesting general directions for U.S. and Asian political affairs. American experience in Southeast Asia has shown that intervention shou...
Jan 1, 1968

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