New Zealand's Geopolitics and the US-China Competition

Dr Reuben Steff is a Senior Lecturer of International Relations and Geopolitics at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. His research encompasses US-China Great Power Competition, emerging technologies, missile defence and nuclear deterrence, and the foreign policies of the United States and New Zealand. He has publications in multiple journals and is the author of four books, including Emerging Technologies and International Security: Machines, the State and War (Routledge, 2020) and US Foreign Policy in the Age of Trump: Drivers, Strategy and Tactics (Routledge, 2021).

• Chapter 1: New Zealand’s Geopolitical Awakening in the Second Cold War.- Chapter 2: Theoretical Framework: Geopolitical Realism and  Great Power Competition.- Chapter 3: New Zealand’s Material Hand: Physical Geography, Economics, Soft Power, the Foreign Policy System, Defence Force, Memberships and Alliances.- Chapter 4: The Geopolitics Tradition and New Zealand: From Imperial Defence to Interdependent Security.- Chapter 5: The US-China Great Power Competition in the Indo-Pacific: Colliding Strategies and Ambitions.- Chapter 6: Great Power Competition in Oceania and New Zealand’s shift from Hedging to Balancing.- Chapter 7: The Case for Tight Five Eyes Alignment.- Chapter 8: The Case for Armed Neutrality and Comprehensive National Resilience.- Chapter 9: Shaping the Balance: New Zealand's Strategic Significance, Defense Revival and Future Research.