The chief executive of New Zealand’s Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC) has given some advice to small countries in the Indo-Pacific region on how best to deal with global challenges and issues.
Speaking at a recent discussion on “Small-State Dilemmas in The Indo-Pacific Era: The Case of New Zealand” held at the Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Brook Barrington said small states were being confronted with multiple dilemmas.
They included the fragmentation among member states on the adoption of a post-war liberal rule-based order; clashes between democracy and autocratic systems and…
