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New Zealand’s Strategic Options in the Asian Century:
An Australian View
Author: Hugh White
Volume 7, Number 1 (Autumn 2011), pp. 45-60.
Abstract
New Zealand’s Defence White Paper 2010 acknowledges that shifting power relativities in Asia are undermining the regional order that has kept New Zealand secure for many decades. This raises questions about whether New Zealand can continue to assume that the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) need not prepare for major conflict. The White Paper provides little analysis of what this possibility means for the kinds of tasks the NZDF might be called upon to perform and what capabilities it might therefore need in future. This article explores these questions by looking at the kinds of broad strategic posture New Zealand might adopt in a more contested Asia, what demands those postures might make on its forces, and the capability implications.
About the Author
Hugh White is Professor of Strategic Studies at the Australian National University and a Visiting Fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Policy. His principal research interests are Australian strategic and defence policy, and the regional and global security issues that most directly affect Australia. He was Deputy Secretary for Strategy in the Department of Defence 1995-2000, and principal author of the White Paper, Defence 2000. hugh.white@anu.edu.au.
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