@Diplosphere

Diplosphere promotes independent thinking & diplomacy. Because we live on a sphere, we don't view the world from one angle.

[Maty Nikkhou-O'Brien @MatyOBrien]

🌍 Why #Hungary’s democratic shift matters globally — and for NZ 🇳🇿
🇭🇺 Hear former INSEAD COO Attila Cselőtei, Hungarian historian Dr Martin Fisher & Dan O’Brien @distantKiwi discuss what’s at stake @diplosphere. https://t.co/BqCnB7P9qc

[Maty Nikkhou-O'Brien @MatyOBrien]

We spent a memorable weekend in the French towns of Le Quesnoy and Arras for #ANZAC
How do these events link to the world today?@diplosphere
https://t.co/SPmoyRIHir

[Maty Nikkhou-O'Brien @MatyOBrien]

#Iran: Not Just a Fuel Crisis — A Test for #NZ’s Foreign Policy? Join @diplosphere stellar line-up —@annafifield, Dr @rparsi (Lund University), @vanushi_walters + more — to unpack what the crisis means for NZ & beyond. 11 May, at
@NZParliament
Register: https://t.co/g9LOfmgC4L

[Maty Nikkhou-O'Brien @MatyOBrien]

Eternal #Iran
Why the country matters more than just petrol prices and plane tickets, to New Zealand & the world.
@diplosphere @distantKiwi @HelenClarkNZ @DalrympleWill @Robert_Patman

Read here:
https://t.co/qFpvBcLalK

[Maty Nikkhou-O'Brien @MatyOBrien]

Chance Wellington Airport encounter with former NZ Foreign Minister Murray McCully ✈️🇳🇿
From hosting his NZIIA valedictory speech to now, it feels like another world.
Worth reading his speech: https://t.co/f6wCzsGMiu

[Maty Nikkhou-O'Brien @MatyOBrien]

A timely conversation as the world sits at a point of #rupture 🌍
A pleasure to reconnect with H.E. @AmbChina2NZ Xiaolong🇨🇳🇳🇿
We discussed the state of the world. In a fractured world, the NZ–China relationship, built over decades, remains strong. @diplosphere @distantKiwi

[Maty Nikkhou-O'Brien @MatyOBrien]

A mini-Davos at Raumati Beach 🌊 — diplomacy over a BBQ 🍗🔥
Great to reconnect with H.E. Viktor Vavricka @SwissAmbNZ, and family 🇨🇭🇳🇿
His 2024 @diplosphere message still resonates: international law works—but only when words match actions.
@distantKiwi

[Maty Nikkhou-O'Brien @MatyOBrien]

🇳🇿 Clean and green?
NZ’s image as a good global citizen is more than branding — it is a necessity.
As O’Brien wrote, Modern NZ has embellished claims to be ‘clean and green’—for image and for hard-nosed commercial reasons. @distantKiwi @diplosphere #NZpol https://t.co/DUsuDnlznE

[Maty Nikkhou-O'Brien @MatyOBrien]

Adieu Mr Bolger 🌿
“We can’t force anybody to do anything... All we can do is lead by intellectual argument and persuasion.”

A voice of reason we were fortunate to host @diplosphere.

The world needs more statesmen like him. More than ever.
#nzpol #NZIndependentForeignPolicy

[Dr Geoffrey Miller د. جيفري ميلر 🇳🇿 @GeoffMillerNZ]

https://t.co/nIZaFRKR6T @diplosphere @distantKiwi @MatyOBrien

[Maty Nikkhou-O'Brien @MatyOBrien]

Here’s the @DavidParkerMP’s Foreign Affairs address at @diplosphere 👇

https://t.co/MXbxJVPwOm

[Maty Nikkhou-O'Brien @MatyOBrien]

Truly the People's House 🇳🇿
Privileged to address @NZParliament—this time virtually from Paris—to introduce Hon @DavidParkerMP's foreign policy speech at @Diplosphere, expertly moderated by @coughlthom.
In a time of global disorder, he urged a principled, independent path for NZ.

[Maty Nikkhou-O'Brien @MatyOBrien]

The rules-based order is collapsing—what does this mean for #NZ?

Join Hon @DavidParkerMP & @diplosphere to explore the impact on #security, #trade & the #Pacific, on 27 March @NZParliament
Moderated by @coughlthom

Registration & invite here: https://t.co/UipWlHdrCf

[Trevor Johnston 🌏☮️ @TrevorJ24567534]

“If New Zealand opts to remain in Five Eyes it should do so only on the basis that, at the bottom line, intelligence does not make foreign policy, it serves foreign policy; although in the case of the US, and of Australia, intelligence plainly carries the greater weight and has even (as witnessed in the 2004 attack on Iraq) been expediently concocted in ways to justify war. Five Eyes is not a formal alliance treaty; it is an expedient arrangement between intelligence agencies to exchange information. At times of intense rivalry between the great powers it should be no surprise that information shared by the US, given its robust rivalry with China, should reflect its compulsive priority. In those circumstances New Zealand should commit formally as well to widen exchanges of intelligence with Asia-Pacific partners.”
The (global) response to COVID-19 cannot reinforce confidence that international cooperation will be readily secured unless a fundamental change of heart occurs in the emerging rivalry between the US and China. This is the space wherein New Zealand needs to retain evenhandedness and the essential logic of a distinctive small-power contribution of the kind displayed through its non-nuclear policy, which remains an eminently rational and respectable hallmark of New Zealand's approach towards foreign affairs.”
Terence O’Brien (NZ Diplomat) - Consolations of Insignificance

[Maty Nikkhou-O'Brien @MatyOBrien]

🌍 @Diplosphere Dialogues: Bridging Horizons with Pakistan 🇵🇰
Tune in to our conversation with H.E. Dr. Faisal Aziz Ahmed on Pakistan's diplomatic and historical significance.
@distantKiwi @PakinNewZealand #Diplomacy #Pakistan
Watch/Listen here:

https://t.co/t5mZUHTqOT

[Maty Nikkhou-O'Brien @MatyOBrien]

🌊🌏 The #Pacific: Site of a New "Great Game" or a Nuclear-Free, Independent Region?

@AUTuni's Dr Marco de Jong @MHdeJong, Pacific Historian on New Zealand's role in the Pacific
By @diplosphere @distantKiwi #nzpol

Watch the discussion here:

https://t.co/rsAh0zYcIR

[Faisal Aziz Ahmed @faisalazizahmed]

Endorse @diplosphere mission of promoting independent thinking in diplomacy by refusing to view the world from one fixated point 👏

[Faisal Aziz Ahmed @faisalazizahmed]

Pleased to receive @MatyOBrien & DanOBrien of @Diplosphere @PakinNewZealand for a broad ranging discussion on Pakistan’s 🇵🇰 place in the world.

[Maty Nikkhou-O'Brien @MatyOBrien]

🇨🇳🇳🇿🇮🇳 Our latest from #Diplostack: The China-New Zealand Relationship with an Indian Twist! 🌏✨
@diplosphere @distantKiwi Farheen Hussain
https://t.co/6r7EvAg09s