TY  - BOOK
AU  - McCRAW David
TI  - New Zealand's defence policy: from realism to idealism? 
PY  - 2008///
KW  - NEW ZEALAND
KW  - DEFENCE POLICY
KW  - ARMED FORCES
KW  - COLLECTIVE SECURITY
N2  - The political ideology of the Labour party has had a profound influence on New Zealand's defence policy over the last 25 years, and thus on the role and function of the armed forces. This article says that today, with the country effectively expelled from ANZUS, New Zealand is antimilitarist with armed forces being oirented to peackeeping rather than combat. Collective security has been replaced by emphasis on trade and diplomacy
ER  -