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March 31, 2022
COMMENTARY: By Yamin Kogoya Papuan Governor Lukas Enembe had an hour-long meeting with Russian Ambassador Lyudmila Vorobyeva, accompanied by the director of the Russian Centre for Science and Culture in Jakarta this week. On the table, an invitation for President Vladimir Putin to visit Papua later this year. The governor also had his small team ... <a title="Why Governor Lukas Enembe is inviting Russia’s Putin to Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/31/why-governor-lukas-enembe-is-inviting-russias-putin-to-papua/" aria-label="Read more about Why Governor Lukas Enembe is inviting Russia’s Putin to Papua">Read more</a>
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March 31, 2022
In this podcast, political scientist Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning analyse how New Zealand and other nations are providing intelligence expertise in the defence of Ukraine. But are the SIGINT and TECHINT operations a part of the NATO partnership, or, a part of the Five Eyes intelligence network's operations - where the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand share resources to acquire and coordinate global and targeted intelligence?
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March 24, 2022
A View from Afar – In this podcast, political scientist Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning raise the question: If escalation of the Russian war against Ukraine will occur should NATO or European Union nations intervene to protect Ukraine, who or what can assist in bringing this war to a close?
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March 24, 2022
A View from Afar – In this podcast, political scientist Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning raise the question: If escalation of the Russian war against Ukraine will occur should NATO or European Union nations intervene to protect Ukraine, who or what can assist in bringing this war to a close? For many of us around ... <a title="LIVE Today @ 1pm Buchanan + Manning: What can bring the Russian war against Ukraine to a close?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/24/live-today-1pm-buchanan-manning-what-can-bring-the-russian-war-against-ukraine-to-a-close/" aria-label="Read more about LIVE Today @ 1pm Buchanan + Manning: What can bring the Russian war against Ukraine to a close?">Read more</a>
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March 16, 2022
A View from Afar – In this podcast, political scientist Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning will unpack why the west is losing a strategic deterrence advantage against Russian Federation president Vladimir Putin. In this episode Buchanan and Manning will analyse whether deterrence, in its various forms, is an effective tool against aggressive authoritarian opponents and ... <a title="LIVE Thurs@Midday Buchanan + Manning: Can Deterrence be an effective tool against Putin’s offensive in Ukraine?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/16/live-thursmidday-buchanan-manning-can-deterrence-be-an-effective-tool-against-putins-offensive-in-ukraine/" aria-label="Read more about LIVE Thurs@Midday Buchanan + Manning: Can Deterrence be an effective tool against Putin’s offensive in Ukraine?">Read more</a>
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March 14, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. In the present conflict that has huge potential to escalate into a global catastrophe, it is appropriate to impose the highest level of opprobrium on Russia’s present military agenda, and on Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin. However, that does not excuse us from the need to critique problematic behaviour by other ‘actors’, ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – Territorial Asymmetry in International Politics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/14/keith-rankin-essay-territorial-asymmetry-in-international-politics/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – Territorial Asymmetry in International Politics">Read more</a>
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March 10, 2022
In this podcast, political scientist Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning deep dive into the big picture that hangs over the Russian invasion of Ukraine. That big picture has many aspects to it, and as such any resolution to the atrocities being committed in Ukraine will likely be weighed against what is a challenge to the International law and rules-based order.
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March 9, 2022
A View From Afar - In this podcast, political scientist Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning will deep dive into the big picture that hangs over the Russian invasion of Ukraine. That big picture has many aspects to it, and a resolution to the atrocities being committed in Ukraine will eventually be weighed against what is a challenge to the International laws and rules-based order.
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March 9, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The war in Ukraine possibly represents the most dangerous episode in the history of humanity in historical times; especially but not only because it comes on top of two other overt global crises – climate change and pandemic – and another less overt global crisis, the slow implosion of the international ... <a title="Keith Rankin on Russia and Ukraine – Fighting an Unclear War" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/09/keith-rankin-on-russia-and-ukraine-fighting-an-unclear-war/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin on Russia and Ukraine – Fighting an Unclear War">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2022
A View from Afar – In this podcast, political scientist Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning discuss the ongoing Russian attacks against Ukraine, including: Whether the Russian Federation’s president Vladimir Putin has lost the support of significant leaders of allied nations, and if so what does this mean for Russia as a global power?
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March 2, 2022
A View from Afar – In this podcast, political scientist Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning will discuss the ongoing Russian attacks against Ukraine, including: Whether the Russian Federation’s president Vladimir Putin has lost the support of significant leaders of allied nations, and if so what does this mean for Russia as a global power? We ... <a title="LIVE Thurs@Midday: Buchanan + Manning on why Putin has exhausted the support of his natural allies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/02/live-thursmidday-buchanan-manning-on-why-putin-has-exhausted-the-support-of-his-natural-allies/" aria-label="Read more about LIVE Thurs@Midday: Buchanan + Manning on why Putin has exhausted the support of his natural allies">Read more</a>
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February 28, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Yesterday I watched Kenneth Branagh’s recent movie, Belfast. A wonderful ‘biopic’ of that fraught city in 1969/70. It brought back memories of my own brief visit there in April 1976, when I rode into town on my trusty Honda – past Carrickfergus Castle. Then parked, and walked along Donegal Place, ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – High Noon?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/28/keith-rankin-essay-high-noon/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – High Noon?">Read more</a>
