Course description

A course of lectures delivered mainly by senior staff from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Designed to give students as vivid an idea as possible of the practice, as well as the principles, informing the Ministry. 

Recommended reading 

Links are through to the Voyager record. Titles are cited according to the Chicago manual of style.  15th ed.

For items in the Short Loan Collection, including electronic Short Loan material, click here.

Material about New Zealand located in the General Library, is in the New Zealand and Pacific Collection, Ground Level. New Zealand election manifestos are in the Special Collections collection, Ground Level, General Library. Floor plan for Ground Level.

New Zealand foreign policy

• Hoadley, Stephen. Negotiating Free Trade: the New Zealand - Singapore CEP Agreement. Wellington: New Zealand Institute of International Affairs, 2002.
• ---. The New Zealand Foreign Affairs Handbook. 2nd ed. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1992.
• ---. New Zealand Taiwan Relations. Auckland: New Zealand Asia Institute : Auckland Institute of Studies, 1998.
• Kennaway, Richard, and John Henderson, eds. Beyond New Zealand. II, Foreign Policy Into the 1990s. Auckland: Longman Paul, 1991.
• Mackinnon, Malcolm. Independence and Foreign Policy: New Zealand in the World Since 1935. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1993.
• New Zealand in World Affairs. Wellington: Price Milburn for the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs, 1977-1999.
• New Zealand. Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. New Zealand Consolidated Treaty List as at 31 December 1996. Part 1, Multilateral treaties. Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, 1997.
• ---. New Zealand Consolidated Treaty List as at 31 December 1996. Part 2, Bilateral Treaties. Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, 1997.
• ---.  New Zealand's Foreign and Security Policy Challenges. Wellington: Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, 2000.
• Templeton, Malcolm. An Eye, an Ear and a Voice: 50 Years in New Zealand's External Relations 1943-1993. Wellington: Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, 1993.
• ---. New Zealand as an International Citizen: Fifty Years of United Nations Membership. Wellington: Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, 1995. Wellington: Price Milburn for the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs, 1977-1999.
• Trotter, Ann, ed. Fifty Years of New Zealand Foreign Policy Making: Anniversary Volume; Papers from the Twenty-Eighth Foreign Policy School, 1993. Dunedin: University of Otago Press in association with University Extension, 1993. 

Journals     

The following is a list of suggested journals. Click on the journal title to establish Library holdings, print or electronic.  Check the Voyager record to see complete holdings.  Click on 'online issues' to view the most complete electronic holdings from one source. To find out what articles have been written in these journals you need to search a database which indexes that journal.  You need to be logged on with your Net ID and Net Password to access online journal issues.

New Zealand

• Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives
  Contains papers tabled in Parliament, such as annual reports of Government departments. The journal is arranged by shoulder no. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade is at the shoulder no. A1. Some of the journals are available over the internet, via the Parliamentary web site. See the Internet section below.
• New Zealand Defence Quarterly
• New Zealand Foreign Affairs Review - preceded by New Zealand External Affairs Review.
• New Zealand International Review
  online issues Expanded Academic
• New Zealand Official Year-book. Wellington : Govt. Printer.
• New Zealand Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). 1987 onwards available online via the Library database Hansard.

Reference books 

Reference books are useful sources to begin researching a topic. Encyclopedias and dictionaries provide definitions of terms. Encyclopedia articles provide an overview of a topic. Many encyclopedias have lists of further reading at the end of an article. Bibliographies list material published on a topic. Yearbooks and directories, such as the Europa World Year Book provide concise information on countries or organizations. The Arts Reference Collection, Level 1, General Library, contains a range of subject dictionaries, encyclopedias, bibliographies, yearbooks and handbooks. Reference books on New Zealand topics are held in the New Zealand and Pacific Collection, Ground Level, General Library. Reference books on business or economics are located in the Business and Economics Reference Collection, Level M, General Library. 

New Zealand

Note many of these are located in the New Zealand and Pacific Quick Reference Collection, Ground Level, General Library.

• Index to New Zealand Periodicals - Use this to find articles in New Zealand journals prior to 1987. Use the Library database Index New Zealand for material published after 1987.
• The New Zealand Government Directory.
• Directory of Official Information
  2001 available online
• Levine, Stephen, and Paul Harris, eds. New Zealand Politics Sourcebook. 3rd ed. Palmerston North: Dunmore Press, 1999. (Esp. Part VIII: International relations)
• Ringer, J. B.  An Introduction to New Zealand Government: a Guide to Finding out about Government in New Zealand, its Institutions, Structures and Activities. Christchurch: Hazard Press, 1991.
• Wood, G. A., ed. Ministers and Members in the New Zealand Parliament. 2nd ed. Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 1996.

Voyager searches   

Suggested subject searches on Voyager. Click on the subject headings to display an index of subject heading terms on Voyager. From within the Voyager index, click on a subject heading to display a corresponding list of books and journals. If there are more titles under a subject heading than you care to browse through, you may sort the results by date, with the most recent publications first. To do this, click on the down arrow by 'Sort by' and select 'Publication date descending.'

• New Zealand
• International

New Zealand

Closer Economic Relations Agreement Economic assistance New Zealand Executive departments New Zealand National characteristics New Zealand National security New Zealand New Zealand Armed Forces New Zealand Commercial treaties New Zealand Defence force New Zealand Defenses New Zealand Economic policy New Zealand Emigration and immigration Government policy New Zealand Foreign economic relations  New Zealand Foreign economic relations Australia New Zealand Foreign economic relations Pacific Area New Zealand Foreign relations

New Zealand Foreign relations administration New Zealand Foreign relations Australia New Zealand Foreign relations United States New Zealand Military Policy New Zealand Military relations New Zealand Politics and Government New Zealand Politics and Government 1972- New Zealand Politics and Government 1984- New Zealand Politics and Government 1996- New Zealand Relations Australia New Zealanders Attitudes Nuclear-weapon-free-zones New Zealand Public opinion New Zealand Refugees New Zealand

International
Arms race Arms transfers Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Organization Asylum Right of Cold War Conflict management Diplomacy Diplomatic negotiations in international disputes Economic sanctions Foreign trade regulation International cooperation International economic relations International police International relations International relations Dictionaries International relations Encyclopedias Islands of the Pacific Foreign relations National security Nuclear arms control Nuclear nonproliferation Nuclear ships Government policy Nuclear weapons Oceania Foreign relations Pacific area Cooperation	Pacific area Defenses Pacific area Foreign relations Pacific area Military policy Pacific area Military relations Pacific settlement of international disputes Peacekeeping forces Political refugees Regionalism Security International September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 Technology International cooperation Technology transfer United States Defenses United States Foreign relations United States Military policy United States Military relations Terrorism Prevention United Nations Armed forces War on Terrorism, 2001- World politics 1989- World politics 1995-2005 World politics 20th century World politics 21st century World Trade Organization
For foreign relations between one country and another country, use the name of the country, followed by 'foreign relations', followed by the name of the other country,  eg New Zealand Foreign relations United States.  You may also use a region,  eg  Oceania Foreign relations ;  Pacific area Foreign relations ;  Islands of the Pacific Foreign relations The same principle applies to Foreign economic relations, Military relations, Military policy, and Relations between one country and another country.

To find more subject headings, consult the Library of Congress Subject Headings.

Databases 

New Zealand
International Relations
Newspapers
Reference

You need to be logged on with your Net ID and Net Password to access the following select listing of databases.  See also the New Zealand and Pacific  and the Legal databases.

New Zealand

• Hansard 
  Hansard contains transcripts of the debates in the New Zealand House of Representatives. 
• Index New Zealand (INNZ) 
  This is the core New Zealand database. The search interface is the same as Voyager. 
• Newzindex
  Index to New Zealand newspapers and magazines. The indexing for newspapers is more detailed than that in Index New Zealand, but it covers less newspapers. Editorials and letters to the newspaper are not included.
• NewztextPlus
  This database contains the complete text of some of the main New Zealand serials, such as the New Zealand Herald and National Business Review.  Also contains Newzindex.
• Te Puna
  National Library's bibliographic database. The search interface is similar to Voyager. The 'Command' search is the same as the 'Keyword Boolean' search in Voyager.

International relations

• APEC Fulltext studies
  Collection of full-text reports published by APEC.
• APEC Literature Database
  Indexes and abstracts books and articles relevant to APEC. This is one of the Informit databases.
• CQ Electronic Library
  Contains full text for a number of US government reports. Historic Documents contains primary source documents relating to key events such as treaties, presidential addresses, major legislative events, scientific breakthroughs. CQ Weekly contains information on the week in Congress, status of bills in play, behind-the-scenes maneuvering, committee and floor activity, debates, and all roll-call votes.
• Expanded Academic
  Indexes journals and newspapers, and book reviews. Has the complete text for many articles. Very good for international relations. 
• International Political Science Abstracts
  Useful for European material.
• CIAO : Columbia International Affairs Online
  Full text database covering international relations.
• PAIS (Public Affairs Information Services) International
  Indexes and abstracts material on international relations. Indexes journals, books and yearbooks. Useful for American coverage.
• Politics and International Relations (Sage Full Text Collections)
  Contains full text for a number of Sage journals in the field of international relations.
• United Nations Treaty Collection
  A full text site offering access to bilateral and multilateral treaties.
• Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
  Indexes and abstracts books and journals on political science. Useful for American coverage. Also indexes book reviews.

Newspapers

Newspapers are a useful place to find topical policy issues, and to find government press releases.

• Factiva
  Factiva contains the full text of many newspapers from around the world, such as the Sydney Morning Herald, New Zealand Herald, New York Times.
• ANZ Reference Centre
  Contains selective full text for a number of New Zealand, Australian, and other international newspapers.  
• Index New Zealand
  Indexes a wide range of New Zealand newspapers, but not in any great detail.
• New York Times (Proquest Historical Newspapers)
  An archive of the New York Times. Cover to cover full text from 1851 onwards, excluding the latest 3 years.
• NewspaperSource
  Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for 23 national (U.S.) and international newspapers, including USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Post, The Times (London), The Toronto Star.
• Newzindex 
  Index to New Zealand newspapers and magazines. The indexing for newspapers is more detailed than that in Index New Zealand, but it covers less newspapers. Editorials and letters to the newspaper are not included.
• NewztextPlus
  Contains the complete text of some of the main New Zealand newspapers, such as the New Zealand Herald. Editorials and letters to the newspaper are not included.

Reference 

• Credo Reference contains a number of subject dictionaries and encyclopedias.
• Gale Virtual Reference Library
  Contains a number of online international relations reference sources.
• Ebsco Reference Center
• Oxford Reference Online contains a number of subject dictionaries and encyclopedias. Use the subject dictionaries for definitions of terms. 

Database search hints

Have a selection of key words for your assignment topic. Ask yourself these questions: 

If you are searching for a phrase, how can you search for a phrase in the database you are using? Some databases will search for two separate words as a phrase, while many databases require the phrase to be inside quotes, 
eg "closer economic relations". 

Is the word you are searching with likely to be singular or plural? 
eg country countries 

Is the American spelling different to the English spelling? 
eg globalisation globalization 

Does the database allow you to construct a search that will look for singular or plural forms of a word, and find British or American spelling? This is usually done by truncation symbols, or wildcards. 

Is there more than one word that can be used for the topic you are looking for? 
eg apec  or  asia pacific economic community 

Does the database allow you to construct a keyword search using synonyms? This is usually done with a boolean keyword search, using the boolean operator 'or'. 
eg "closer economic relations" or cer 

If a database allows you to search by a subject, what is the subject heading? If you do not know the subject heading to use, do a keyword search, look at the record for a useful article, and look at the subject headings that have been used to index that article. Some databases link from the subject heading in a record to all items indexed by that subject heading in the database. Some databases have a thesaurus, giving the terminology to use for subject searches within that database. Index New Zealand uses the APAIS Thesaurus: a List of Subject Terms Used in APAIS; the Australian Public Affairs Information Service. 7th ed.. This is available in print, and online.

Internet sites

New Zealand
International

New Zealand

• New Zealand Government portal
• New Zealand Parliament website. Publications, includi Select Committee reports. Recent NIAs (National Interest Analysis) are part of the Select Committee Report. 
• New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade 
  • International Treaties 
    MFAT 6-monthly treaties list - lists all treaties New Zealand is currently involved in - negotiating, concluding, ratifying or amending.
    Treaty Register and Treaty Making Process 
    The Treaty Register is the government's official record of New Zealand's binding legal obligations at international law.
    New Zealand Representatives Overseas
• Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade 
• Ministry of Defence
• Minister of Defence
• New Zealand Immigration Service
• Minister of Immigration
• Minister of Trade Negotiations
• New Zealand Centre for Strategic Studies
• New Zealand Trade and Enterprise
• Dictionary of New Zealand Biography

International

• Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
  Including recent media releases and speeches.
• CocoNET Wireless
  Pacific Islands news and information.
• Dept. of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Australia)
  Including 'Assisting Australians Overseas'
• Department of State (USA)
  Including Websites of US Embassies and Consulates.
• Foreign Relations of the United States
  Compiled by the Office of the Historian of the US Department of State. Electronic archive of material released prior to January 20, 2001. For material released since George W. Bush took office see the Department of State's web site. 
• National Security Archive
  The National Security Archive is a research institute on international affairs, a library and archive of declassified U.S. documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. It is the world's largest non governmental library of declassified documents.
• Pacific Islands Report
• United Nations
• US House of Representatives
• White House

Library information

Reference Styles used in the University of Auckland

The Library has compiled guides to Harvard and Chicago referencing styles. The Chicago Manual of Style contains many examples for footnotes and the bibliography.

Understanding your reading list

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