About SSANSE
Small states may be small in population and territory, but they have frequently had a disproportionate effect on global politics and they are more often affected by global shifts in power. The SSANSE project contributes to theoretical debates on the role of small states in the changing international system as well as on the issue of how states manage their relations between the major powers in the new security environment.
The SSANSE research team is led by Professor Anne-Marie Brady, Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Canterbury. The project has so far produced two edited books and more than fifty policy papers, held international conferences, and provided funding for post-graduate students.
SSANSE Publications
Te kuaka marangaranga, kotahi manu i tau ki te tahuna: tau atu, tau ra.
The godwit flock has arisen; one bird has come to rest on the beach: others will follow.
The SSANSE Project publishes policy-relevant, theoretically-informed research on the defence and foreign policy choices and challenges of small states in the new security environment.
Books
Anne-Marie Brady, ed. Small states and the changing global order: New Zealand faces the future (Springer, 2019)
Anne-Marie Brady and Baldur Thorhallson eds., Small states and the new security environment (Springer 2020)
Coastwatchers 2.0
Coastwatchers 2.0 is a collaboration with Sinopsis at Charles University in Prague, Czechia
Domingo I-Kwei Yang, China's Dual-Use Infrastructure in the Pacific
Editorial Board
Professor Anne-Marie Brady
Professor Martin Hála
SSANSE papers with the Centre for Small States Studies, University of Iceland
Commission for a Post-Covid-19 Future
In 2020, the SSANSE Project launched a new preparedness initiative, the Commission for a Post-COVID-19 Future, to provide contestable policy advice to the New Zealand government on options for our foreign, trade and economic policy, which aim to help New Zealand recover from the economic and political damage of the pandemic. Covid-19 was both a political and economic crisis, as well as a health issue.
| AUTHOR / INSTITUTE | POLICY BRIEF |
| Anne-Marie Brady (University of Canterbury) | Brave new world - New Zealand foreign policy in the COVID-19 era |
| Robert G Patman (University of Otago) | COVID-19 New Zealand and the new geopolitics |
| Charles Finny (Saunders Unsworth) | Hedging against trade dependency post-COVID-19 |
| Michael Reddell (Independent researcher) | Rebuilding New Zealands shattered economy in a post-COVID world |
