This book provides a critical examination of the foreign policy choices of one typical small state, New Zealand, as it faces the changing global balance of power. New Zealand’s foreign policy challenges are similar with those faced by many other small states in the world today and are ideally suited to help inform theoretical debates on the role of small states in the changing international system. The book analyses how a small state such as New Zealand is adjusting to the changing geopolitical, geo-economic, environment. The book includes perspectives from some of New Zealand's leading as well as emerging commentators on New Zealand foreign policy. 

Anne-Marie Brady is Professor in Political Science and International Relations at the University of Canterbury and a Global Fellow at the Wilson Center in Washington DC. She researches and writes on China’s domestic and foreign policy, polar politics, Pacific politics, and New Zealand foreign policy. She is the author or editor of 11 books and the Executive Editor of The Polar Journal.