Track II Research
Publications we have highlighted here include Track II research reports commissioned by the Foundation as well as articles and papers published elsewhere that we have felt we should bring to your attention.
If you are involved with Track II work through Asia:NZ or a similar regional organisation and you would like to submit an article for publication, please contact Dr Andrew Butcher by email.
- New Zealand NGOs and Japanese nuclear policy
A research project by Dr Maria Rublee of the University of Auckland is the 2009 recipient of the Asia:NZ International Relations grant.
Read more about what her research project proposes to examine.
- PECC and Asia-Pacific economic integration
An overview of the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC) annual meeting in Osaka and paper by New Zealand delegate Professor Gary Hawke.
Click here to read the summary and download the full text of the paper.
- China's Rise: A Pacific View
What kind of great power is China becoming? How will Pacific Island countries be affected? Are there specific challenges and opportunities, already evident or foreseeable? If so, how can they best be handled?
Michael Powles, Adjunct Research Fellow, Institute of International Studies at Fudan University in Shanghai, and a former New Zealand Ambassador to China and to the United Nations, has sought to answer these and other questions in a working paper for Fudan University’s Centre for Chinese Foreign Policy Studies, entitled "China's Rise: A Pacific View".
The full paper can be downloaded here.
- The United States and the Asia-Pacific region: Security strategy for the Obama administration
Ongoing shifts in geopolitical power from West to East make the Asia-Pacific region more important to the United States today than ever before. Yet, as Asia’s importance has grown over the last decade, Washington has often been focused elsewhere. The Obama administration needs a more active approach to the Asia-Pacific region that recognises the new geopolitical realities and positions the United States to deal effectively with the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.
The report, published by the Center for a New American Security, can be downloaded here. It was co-authored by Brad Glosserman, a contributor to our Track 2 section.
- CSCAP Regional Security Outlook
The CSCAP Regional Security Outlook (CRSO) is the CSCAP flagship publication, which first appeared in 2008.
Click here to read more.
- Mapping Track II Institutions in New Zealand, Australia and the Asian Region
This 2005 report documents the leading Asia-focused Track 2 institutions in New Zealand, Australia and the Asian region. It outlines where New Zealand either is, or could be, most productively engaged and provides recommendations on how New Zealand might best go about strengthening its Track 2 engagement with Asia.
Download full report (PDF).
- New Zealand and the Developing FTA Architecture of the Asia-Pacific Region
Understanding the existing and proposed free trade agreements (FTAs) throughout the Asian region has increased in importance since the indefinite suspension of the WTO's Doha round of trade talks. in 2006, Asia:NZ and the New Zealand Treasury commissioned Dr Robert Scollay to examine trends in preferential trade in the Asia-Pacific region, including simulations of proposed agreements and the impacts on New Zealand.
Download the executive summary, business summary or full report (PDF).
