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Item Restricted INTP371: International Relations: Human Security(Victoria University of Wellington, 2011) Capie, DavidItem Restricted INTP371: International Relations: Human Security(Victoria University of Wellington, 2014) Capie, DavidItem Restricted INTP371: International Relations: Human Security(Victoria University of Wellington, 2013) Capie, DavidItem Restricted INTP371: International Relations: Human Security(Victoria University of Wellington, 2012) Capie, DavidItem Restricted INTP371: International Relations: Human Security(Victoria University of Wellington, 2010) Capie, DavidItem Restricted INTP442: International Relations: Armed Conflict and Human Security in the Asia-Pacific Region(Victoria University of Wellington, 2009) Capie, DavidItem Restricted INTP448: International Relations: Identity and World Politics(Victoria University of Wellington, 2008) Capie, DavidItem Restricted INTP448: International Relations: Identity and World Politics(Victoria University of Wellington, 2006) Capie, DavidItem Restricted INTP451: International Relations: Special Topic: New Zealand Diplomacy(Victoria University of Wellington, 2010) Capie, DavidItem Restricted INTP451: International Relations: Special Topic: New Zealand Diplomacy(Victoria University of Wellington, 2014) Capie, DavidItem Restricted INTP451: International Relations: Special Topic: New Zealand Diplomacy(Victoria University of Wellington, 2013) Capie, DavidItem Restricted INTP586: International Relations: Approaches to International Relations(Victoria University of Wellington, 2012) Capie, DavidItem Restricted POLS442: Political Science: Conflict and Security Asia-Pac(Victoria University of Wellington, 2005) Capie, DavidItem Restricted Privatising the hard part: The New Zealand experience of employing contractors to deliver military logistic support(Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2014) Seed, Jeremy; Capie, DavidThere is an increasing trend amongst global military forces to engage private sector contractors to provide a wide range of services. This thesis examines the outsourcing of logistics functions in the military environment, with a particular focus on the New Zealand experience. Logistics is a little understood and often overlooked, but vital, part of military operations, potentially outsourcing such a vital role could impact national sovereignty if it were to impair the ability of the national military to perform. This thesis outlines the core theoretical beliefs that lead to the outsourcing of military activity being considered acceptable. The impact of the end of the Cold War and the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 on military budgets, combined with the widespread adoption of belief in the validity of outsourcing has changed the nature of support provision for national military forces. Despite this change, and the engagement of private companies to deliver what were once tasks of uniformed members of the military, there appears to be little threat to national sovereignty through the emergence of this new model.Item Restricted Pushing Elephants: The Small Power Character of New Zealand Diplomacy in Indonesia(Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015) McKeown, Rebecca; Capie, DavidNew Zealand’s bilateral ties with Indonesia have been described as “undercooked” by many familiar with the country’s foreign affairs, yet reasons for weakness in the relationship have not been explored in any depth. This causal gap is indicative of a more general vacuity in International Relations scholarship regarding New Zealand’s diplomatic relations with Indonesia, a neighbouring state of nearly 250 million people. Diplomacy itself has been similarly neglected by scholars of the International Relations canon, falling victim to the more structurally analytical yet occasionally chimerical Foreign Policy. Though many commentators acknowledge that the New Zealand-Indonesia relationship is not as strong as it might be, a large number point to an upbeat foreign policy discourse on Indonesia as evidence that New Zealand governments are trying hard to engage. It is at this little-explored juncture between foreign policy and diplomacy that the reasons underlying New Zealand’s perceptible wariness of Indonesia can be better understood. The following thesis asks how a distinctly diplomatic framework of understanding can help to explain the state of New Zealand-Indonesia relations. It contends that New Zealand demonstrates a small power diplomatic character in contrast to the discrete optimism of its foreign policy rhetoric. It presents four key characteristics of New Zealand’s “small power diplomacy” and offers evidence of this from the Indonesian relationship. Given the dearth of existing literature regarding New Zealand’s diplomatic ties with Indonesia, the thesis draws largely from original research in the form of oral histories offered by current and former diplomats and government officials and by other individuals with interests in the bilateral relationship. Part diplomatic history, part geopolitical analysis, the following thesis aims to shed light on one of New Zealand’s little-explored foreign relationships and the nature of its diplomacy more generally.
