Part of the Pivot? The Washington Declaration and US-NZ Relations

Robert Ayson, Director of the Centre for Strategic Studies: New Zealand, and David Capie, Senior Lecturer at the School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations, both at the Victoria University of Wellington, explain “that while New Zealand has not returned to a formal alliance status in an ANZUS context, it is now very clearly a de facto ally of the United States.”

The views expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the policy or position of the East-West Center or any organization with which the author is affiliated.

Additional titles in the Asia Pacific Bulletin series