Nicholas Ross SMITH
@1NRSmith
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International Relationist interested in all things IR. Currently the academic lead of the 'EU in the Indo-Pacific' JM Network. Senior Research Fellow @NCRENZ.
Kaiapoi, New Zealand
Joined November 2013
Lauren Bland and I have published a discussion piece on the 'AUKUS debate' in New Zealand. We faithfully stick to the journal's instructions that such pieces should be provocative. Check it out:
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It seems to me that Peters and others think of the Cooks and Niue as being akin to what New Caledonia and French Polynesia are to France. This is completely inaccurate.
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@Ppl_not_profits My buddy (who is an expert on microstates and the Pacific) and I have spent years trying to tell people in MFAT (and other "experts") that the Cooks and Niue are sovereign states. The level of ignorance is astounding. This recent furor definitely comes across as neocolonialism.
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Hah. This takes me back to when Matthew was my student at UoA. For the record, he was a very good student and I was particularly impressed with his tutorial participation.
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@KonaNayudu Just sent it off for review, it is part of a special issue on multiplexity. I can send you the draft 😊
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I am going to be on the job market again in the second half of this year. I have real existential dread about it as it might be the end of my academic career which is a bitter pill to swallow.
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This is really excellent news. Maja Kovačević is a great scholar and I am proud to have collaborated with her
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This is frankly embarrassing that NZ's foreign minister does not understand some fairly basic aspects of the Cook Islands-NZ relationship
More confusion from MFAT/Peters. NZ has spent 60 years insisting to the world and the Cook Islands that they are sovereign. Literally. When other countries called Wellington to discuss things like the Cooks' borders, they were told to deak with Avarua. Same when they wanted to open diplomatic posts. NZ prime ministers travelled to the Cooks and publicly declared the country sovereign. NZ's own legislation confirms NZ does not legislate for the islands. Was it silly for NZ to push the Cooks and Niue towards independence (against local wishes) and offer shared citizenship and perpetual uncoditional assistance to seal the deal? Yes. But thats what NZ did and now has to live with the consequences. A serious country would understand this and perhaps seek a new treaty.
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Just reading the acknowledgements of my friend's new book and he mentions how an article we wrote got rejected 8 times (I think it was 6, but who knows). Damn bro, we should just keep that quiet, lol.
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I am working on the final revisions for the article Bonnie Holster and I have written on how the Māori concept of utu could be utilised as a foreign policy doctrine by New Zealand. This will be published with Global Policy journal at some point in the first half of 2025.
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RT @ReubenSteff: My new book - New Zealand's Geopolitics and the US-China Competition - is OUT! Possible book laun…
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On a personal level I am so gutted. I have spent the last three years telling my son not to support the Lakers (like all his glory hunting friends) and to stick with the Mavs because we have Luka...
Luka Doncic at the age of 25: ��� 5x All-Star — 5x 1st Team All-NBA — ROTY — 2nd all-time in playoff PPG — 3rd all-time in PPG — 6th all-time in playoff triple-doubles — 7th all-time in triple-doubles Traded for a pick and a 31 year old.
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Ugh oh. With all my travel of later I opened up my old save of football manager. I always start as unemployed. Magdeburg sacked me twice but third time lucky 🤣 Probably time to retire as I'm 84 years old.
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This is an excellent piece. I know because I reviewed it :-)
The #history and logics of the #EU 🇪🇺governance model holds important lessons for Europe’s current challenges as well we other regions in #worldpolitics. My new article in @IAJournal_CH Affairs explains ❓how and ❓why.
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