Independent Analysis and Reportage
Selwyn Manning and Paul Buchanan present this week’s podcast, A View from Afar with a deep-dive into cyber-attacks and hybrid warfare - Especially how 2021 has witnessed a Cold War II styled stand-off between global powers.
Headline: Nuclear Strategy in a post-deterrence age. – 36th Parallel Assessments Nuclear weapons are in the news again, this time because recent satellite photos reveal that China is constructing large nuclear missile silo “farms” in its Northwestern desert regions. This has occasioned alarm in Western security circles and re-focused attention on the concept of nuclear ... <a title="Nuclear Strategy in a post-deterrence age." class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/12/nuclear-strategy-in-a-post-deterrence-age/" aria-label="Read more about Nuclear Strategy in a post-deterrence age.">Read more</a>
Headline: New Zealand’s foreign policy alignment. – 36th Parallel Assessments Source: Wikimedia Commons. 36th Parallel offers periodic assessments of matters and issues in the news. In this assessment we look at the fallout to a recent speech on foreign policy by its new Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta and explain why the criticism directed at New ... <a title="New Zealand’s foreign policy alignment." class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/29/new-zealands-foreign-policy-alignment/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand’s foreign policy alignment.">Read more</a>
Paul G. Buchanan and Selwyn Manning present A View from Afar and in this episode they discuss: The US Electoral College Vote confirms Joe Biden as president-elect What does this mean for the South-Pacific? China + US are global powers operating in the SOPAC. But how does France fit into this mix?
Analysis by Dr Paul G Buchanan – 36th Parallel Assessments. News that Zhenhua Data, an arm of China Zhenhua Electronics Group, a subsidiary of the military-connected China Electronic Information Industry Group (CETC), maintains a list of 800 New Zealanders on a “Overseas Key Information Database” that contains personal information on more than 2.4 million foreign ... <a title="Paul G Buchanan on The Chinese List – 36th Parallel Assessments" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/19/the-chinese-list/" aria-label="Read more about Paul G Buchanan on The Chinese List – 36th Parallel Assessments">Read more</a>
Headline: Research Link: The 42 Group Q1/Q2 2020 Report. – 36th Parallel Assessments From time to time 36th Parallel features the work of guest analysts. This time we feature the latest offering from The 42 Group, an independent strategic analysis collective based in New Zealand that focuses on military, security and geopolitical analyses. While 36 ... <a title="Research Link: The 42 Group Q1/Q2 2020 Report." class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/23/research-link-the-42-group-q1-q2-2020-report/" aria-label="Read more about Research Link: The 42 Group Q1/Q2 2020 Report.">Read more</a>
Headline: A crisis of governance. – 36th Parallel Assessments [embedded content] The Port of Beirut warehouse explosion, involving 2.7 kilotons of highly explosive ammonium nitrate negligently stored in an unsecured area, crystalizes in one national tragedy a much wider trend: the crisis and decline of democratic governance world-wide. For a decade Lebanon has been gripped ... <a title="Video + Analysis: A crisis of governance – Paul G Buchanan" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/08/a-crisis-of-governance/" aria-label="Read more about Video + Analysis: A crisis of governance – Paul G Buchanan">Read more</a>
Headline: Media Link: Director Paul G. Buchanan Standing Places Interview. – 36th Parallel Assessments 36th Parallel’s principal, Dr Paul G. Buchanan. Director Paul G. Buchanan is interviewed on the London-based Standing Places podcast on the politics of pandemics and related issues. Most of the world is now in some form of pandemic lockdown. Everything around ... <a title="Media Link: Director Paul G. Buchanan Standing Places Interview." class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/23/media-link-director-paul-g-buchanan-standing-places-interview/" aria-label="Read more about Media Link: Director Paul G. Buchanan Standing Places Interview.">Read more</a>
Headline: Iran as a Strategic Actor, Part Two. – 36th Parallel Assessments Given the demographics of each state, the Iowa and New Hampshire Democratic primaries seem to best serve as an early test of how Democrats will fare with the MAGA base and who is best suited to make a play for “soft” MAGA voters. ... <a title="Iran as a Strategic Actor, Part Two." class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/05/iran-as-a-strategic-actor-part-two/" aria-label="Read more about Iran as a Strategic Actor, Part Two.">Read more</a>
Headline: Iran as a strategic actor. – 36th Parallel Assessments Director Paul G. Buchanan has written a two part series on Iran as a strategic actor for the Australian Institute of International Affairs. The analysis is designed to offer an alternative interpretation to views prevalent in the West that see Iran as a rogue and ... <a title="Iran as a strategic actor." class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/31/iran-as-a-strategic-actor/" aria-label="Read more about Iran as a strategic actor.">Read more</a>
The recent surge in social protests world-wide is quantitatively and qualitatively different than in previous ages. The advent of individualised mass communications technologies and the heterogenous range of demands presented in countries governed by political regimes of different ideological persuasions makes the moment unique from an analytic standpoint and challenging for policy-makers, interested observers and ... <a title="Dr Paul G. Buchanan Analysis – An age of protest" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/15/an-age-of-protest/" aria-label="Read more about Dr Paul G. Buchanan Analysis – An age of protest">Read more</a>
Headline: Paul Buchanan – Radio NZ Dispatch: Beware the false narrative linking Christchurch to Sri Lanka bombings – 36th Parallel Assessments A woman grieves for the loss of a family member in Negombo, Sri Lanka. Planning for the Easter Sunday bombings would have started well before last month’s terrorism attacks in Christchurch, Paul Buchanan believes. Photo: RNZ. ... <a title="Paul Buchanan – Radio NZ Dispatch: Beware the false narrative linking Christchurch to Sri Lanka bombings" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/09/paul-buchanan-radio-nz-dispatch-beware-the-false-narrative-linking-christchurch-to-sri-lanka-bombings/" aria-label="Read more about Paul Buchanan – Radio NZ Dispatch: Beware the false narrative linking Christchurch to Sri Lanka bombings">Read more</a>