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Nicholas Ross SMITH @nrsmith.bsky.social · Aug 19
1/6 Paul Bacon and I have a new paper out in The Pacific Review.

We tackled a puzzle: how do you analyze something like the "Indo-Pacific" using Regional Security Complex Theory when it's way too big to be a normal region? 🧩

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/NYX5Q...
The Indo-Pacific as a macrosecuritized constellation: revising regional security Complex Theory for the age of the Indo-Pacific
The Indo-Pacific is increasingly talked about as being a region. However, the sheer geographical size of the Indo-Pacific, which on a maximalist definition stretches from the east coast of Africa t...
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1/6 Paul Bacon and I have a new paper out in The Pacific Review.

We tackled a puzzle: how do you analyze something like the "Indo-Pacific" using Regional Security Complex Theory when it's way too big to be a normal region? 🧩

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/NYX5Q...
The Indo-Pacific as a macrosecuritized constellation: revising regional security Complex Theory for the age of the Indo-Pacific
The Indo-Pacific is increasingly talked about as being a region. However, the sheer geographical size of the Indo-Pacific, which on a maximalist definition stretches from the east coast of Africa t...
www.tandfonline.com
August 19, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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🚨New online! Kelly and Doidge: "Aotearoa New Zealand, AUKUS, and the Anglosphere: navigating security identity amidst geostrategic change. Part of an upcoming special edn. on the "Anglosphere".
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#AcademicPublishing #AcademicSky #InternationalRelations #AUKUS
ABSTRACT The concept of the Anglosphere, while exercising some debate within other of its members, is one that has little currency in the Aotearoa New Zealand context. Instead, it is AUKUS - the most recent project of three core Anglosphere states - that has framed discussion on issues to do with the concept. Utilising three historic ideational tenets of Aotearoa New Zealand's foreign policy - independent foreign policy, nuclear free policy, and a Pacific orientation - this article examines public debate around AUKUS as presented in print news media in the period from its launch in September 2021 through to December 2024. It demonstrates that, while a high number of articles was generated over the timeframe, discussion was largely driven by events external to Aotearoa New Zealand rather than by autochthonous interest. Further, while there has been some local discussion on joining Pillar Il of AUKUS, this has, to date, lacked in-depth analysis. Finally, it finds that the core ideational orientations of Aotearoa New Zealand foreign policy have had relatively little play in media considerations of AUKUS.
October 26, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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I'm thinking how Zhang Yimou's 2002 film Hero, visually stunning as it is, prefigured the later rise of tianxia-ism and civilizationism under Xi. His Beijing Olympics opening ceremony is another landmark production in Chinese civilizational discourse
August 29, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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🚨New Article🚨

“Dependently Independent: Theorizing New Zealand's “Independent” Foreign Policy via a Neoclassical Realist Lens” by Nicholas Ross Smith

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Dependently Independent: Theorizing New Zealand's “Independent” Foreign Policy via a Neoclassical Realist Lens
Abstract. New Zealand's recent efforts to align more closely with the United States and Australia, including exploring the possibility of participating in
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August 26, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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I have a new paper out in @gsqjournal.bsky.social: "Dependently Independent: Theorizing New Zealand's 'Independent' Foreign Policy via a Neoclassical Realist Lens"

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TL;DR: NZ's "independent" foreign policy depends heavily on regional geopolitics. (1/8)
Dependently Independent: Theorizing New Zealand's “Independent” Foreign Policy via a Neoclassical Realist Lens
Abstract. New Zealand's recent efforts to align more closely with the United States and Australia, including exploring the possibility of participating in
academic.oup.com
August 20, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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🧵

I have a new paper out in @gsqjournal.bsky.social: "Dependently Independent: Theorizing New Zealand's 'Independent' Foreign Policy via a Neoclassical Realist Lens"

academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...

TL;DR: NZ's "independent" foreign policy depends heavily on regional geopolitics. (1/8)
Dependently Independent: Theorizing New Zealand's “Independent” Foreign Policy via a Neoclassical Realist Lens
Abstract. New Zealand's recent efforts to align more closely with the United States and Australia, including exploring the possibility of participating in
academic.oup.com
August 20, 2025 at 9:07 PM
nrsmith.bsky.social
1/6 Paul Bacon and I have a new paper out in The Pacific Review.

We tackled a puzzle: how do you analyze something like the "Indo-Pacific" using Regional Security Complex Theory when it's way too big to be a normal region? 🧩

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/NYX5Q...
The Indo-Pacific as a macrosecuritized constellation: revising regional security Complex Theory for the age of the Indo-Pacific
The Indo-Pacific is increasingly talked about as being a region. However, the sheer geographical size of the Indo-Pacific, which on a maximalist definition stretches from the east coast of Africa t...
www.tandfonline.com
August 19, 2025 at 9:50 PM