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Former New Zealand Ambassador to Speak on Nationalism Down Under
Princeton, NJ -- Denis McLean, formerly New Zealand's ambassador to the United States, will speak on "Australia vs. New Zealand: The Nationalism Virus Down Under" at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on Thursday, March 2, at 4:30 p.m. in Robertson Hall, Bowl 1.
McLean, who also served as New Zealand's secretary of defense from 1979 until 1988, is the author of No Bridge: Australia and New Zealand and the Rub of Nationalism, a study relating the Australia-New Zealand relationship to the wider issues of nationalism and globalism. He examines the reasons why, despite their similarities, the two countries do not pool resources and form a political union, and relates these to wider issues of nationalism that sometimes lead to conflict elsewhere in the world.
McLean is also the author of The Long Pathway, Peace Operations and Common Sense, and New Zealand: Isolation and Foreign Policy, as well as of numerous articles and essays. He was the Warburg Professor in International Relations at Simmons College in Boston and has been a visiting fellow at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University; a guest scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC; and a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC.
His lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School.