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New Zealand and Disarmament: Where National and Global Interests Converge

Author(s): Lyndon Burford, Kate Dewes

In: in Brady AM (ed) Small States and the Changing Global Order. The World of Small States, Volume 6, pp. 325-342

New Zealand has built a strong, bipartisan record over several decades for constructive disarmament and arms control policies, which promotes its reputation as a relatively independent, principled international actor. New Zealand’s role as a champion of a rules-based international order, and as a defender of the rights and interests of small states, is also underpinned by its record.