Country Case Report New Zealand

COUNTRY CASE REPORT ON NEW ZEALAND: POLITICS ON GLOBALIZATION
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Introduction
Globalization has introduced serious questions about traditional principles and concepts of international relationship and foreign policies by causing structural changes throughout the world. To many, these changes pose challenges. However, globalization can be beneficial and can open windows of opportunity for an isolated island like New Zealand.
For New Zealand, globalization is a positive force if it is well managed and properly implemented. The core ideas of globalisation can bring competitive advantage for the country by developing globalized economy through multilateral-rule based system. For the last two decades, the political and economical trends as well as diplomatic engagement and security policies of the country have been influenced a lot by the rapidly changing global contexts. Although the effects of globalisation on the foreign policy of New Zealand are significant, it has not turned into an extensive corrosion of the capability of the sovereign state to act on global perspective. Instead, new challenges against traditional international power structure, such as size and geography have raised new promises and opportunities for the country to promote and develop its core interests.
Global context
For over two decades, the foreign policy of New Zealand has gone through substantial transformation. Since the 1980s, the national identity and its sovereign role have faced a lot of changes due to the advent of exaggerated globalization. The government has tried to form a stable economy for the country by eliminating the deregulations as well as improving relations between Pakeha and Maori. At this time, New Zealand has continued to support multilateral institutes, free trade and human rights, and moved closer to the Asia-Pacific Rim. It also banned nuclear weapons, in spite of signing the ANZUS security treaty with Australia and United States, which led to downgrading strategic relation with America. From the Game Theory perspective, this is a cooperative approach as New Zealand joined other nations to form binding commitments. However, the decision under the ANZUS treaty is a non-cooperative approach which involves independent decision making process in order to produce more accurate results.
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