Past research

Research activities conducted by the New Zealand Asia Institute (NZAI) from 2002-2018.

The New Zealand Asia Institute has completed the following research projects:

  • Understanding Asian Youth in the “Asian Century”: Nationalism, Internationalism, and Materialism
  • New Zealand catch reconstruction
  • Innovation and market positioning in the seafood industry
  • The Mekong sub-region: Economic growth and community construction
  • New Zealand, Korea and Asia-Pacific: From Distance to Closeness (2012)
  • Resilience: Japan and New Zealand Moving Forward (2012)
  • The South Pacific Agenda for Survival and Growth: A Framework for Coordinated Participation of Asian Donors? (2012)
  • Compressed Development in Emerging Asia (2011)
  • Identity and opportunity: New Zealand’s Chinese and Indian communities (2011)
  • Intra-Regional Popular Cultural Flows: Towards an East Asian Identity? (2011)
  • Asia Pacific Regional Economic Integration and Architecture (2010)
  • China’s Quest for Balanced Development and NZ-China Relations (2010)
  • Crises, Economy and State: China and its East Asian Neighbours (2010)
  • Korean Studies in Shift (2010)
  • Towards an emerging regional trade architecture: Contending views, divergent perspectives and policy implications (2008)
  • ASEAN at forty: Reflections and visions (2007)
  • China and Korea: Competing images and contending issues (2007)
  • Maritime cooperation in East Asia: Competing understandings of human security (2007)
  • Korean ethnic return migrants in South Korea: Receptions, perceptions and identities (2006)
  • Stocktake of New Zealand-Asia engagement (2006)
  • English in Asia (2005)
  • Ethnicity, equity and the nation: The state, development and identity in multi-ethnic societies (2005)
  • International students in New Zealand: Policies and prospects (2004)
  • Women and change in Korea: Past and present (2004)
  • From miracle to crisis and beyond: Governance, institutions and anti-corruption in Asia (2003)
  • New Zealand and China: Thirty years of diplomatic relations (2002)
  • Sunshine or overcast: The South Korean presidential election and its impact on the peninsula and the region (2002)