New Zealand's Geopolitics and the US-China Competition by Reu... - 9789819602810

New Zealand's Geopolitics and the US-China CompetitionAuthor(s): Reuben Steff\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Springer Verlag, Singapore, Singapore\nImprint: Palgrave Macmillan\nISBN-13: 9789819602810, 978-9819602810\nSynopsis\nThis book advances the establishment of a contemporary New Zealand geopolitical tradition. It details and examines New Zealands geopolitical reality in an increasingly fractured global security (dis)order defined by interdependent strategic competition and emerging multipolarity. A centrepiece is the multidimensional US-China Great Power Competition that has the makings of a Second Cold War. This has immense implications for New Zealands greater region, the Indo-Pacific, and its immediate area, the South Pacific. The latter is of existential importance to New Zealand, becoming an active area of strategic competition as China projects its influence southwards, and New Zealand, Australia and the United States respond. In this context, New Zealands location is incr.