Public Participation in Foreign Policy

Experts from academia, governments, think tanks, NGOs, trade unions, and businesses investigate whether the public should play a greater role in foreign policy making by analyzing their current role in the Iraq war (USA), Post-Apartheid (South Africa), trade relations with China (New Zealand) and other cases.

JAMES HEADLEY Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Previously, he lectured at University of Auckland, Australia,Leicester University, and University College London, UK. He is the author of Russia and the Balkans: Foreign Policy from Yeltsin to Putin (2008).
ANDREAS REITZIG specialises in foreign policy in the Asia-Pacific region as well as strategic and defence studies. He is the author of Trans-Tasman Defence Relations: The Anzacs, ANZUS and Beyond (2010).
JOE BURTON focuses his research on NATO's durability in the post-Cold War era. Other research interests include International Security, International Relations, and U.S. domestic and foreign policy. He has a wide range of teaching experience in political science and has worked as an advisor for New Zealand Parliamentary Services.