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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
Aotearoa: One Nation, 2 Societies?
A presentation by Emily Soper, Clare Ogilvy and Ruakiri Fairhill
The three students from New Zealand gave background on New Zealand history and the gulf between Maori and white cultures, linking national history with their own personal experiences.
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Dr. Kenneth Foster
China: On the Edge of Greatness or on the Edge of a Precipice?"
Kenneth W. Foster (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2003) a professor at UBC, specializes in comparative politics, with an empirical focus on Chinese politics. His theoretical interests include institutional change, regime change, state-society relations, and comparative administration and organizational behavior. Professor Foster is currently completing a book manuscript that examines how business associations emerged in post-Mao China as a result of state efforts to reform the institutions of political and economic governance.
GWYNNE DYER: “BACK TO THE GREAT GAME.”
GWYNNE DYER has worked as a freelance journalist, columnist, broadcaster and lecturer on international affairs for more than 20 years, but he was originally trained as an historian. Born in Newfoundland, he received degrees from Canadian, American and British universities, finishing with a Ph.D. in Military and Middle Eastern History from the University of London. He has held academic appointments at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and Oxford University. Since 1973 his major activity has been his column on international affairs, which is published by 150 papers in some 35 countries.