Robert Patman
@robertgpatman.bsky.social
Distinguished Professor of International Relations, University of Otago, New Zealand.
How another strait in the Middle East could cause a full-blown global economic crisis. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/why-a-nar...
Why a narrow strait could tip the Middle East crisis further
International relations professor Robert Patman joins The Front Page to unpack the stakes for global shipping, energy markets, and the risk of further escalation in the Middle East
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China's strong criticism of New Zealand may be symptomatic of growing confidence in Beijing during the second Trump administration. youtu.be/ErS2Cp9vKnM?...
China's assertiveness linked to perceived Trump weakness
YouTube video by Robert Patman
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Katie Bradford and I discuss the claim of the Putin government that a Russian citizen was passing information to the NZSIS: www.nzherald.co.nz/video/herald...
Russia likely making an example of citizen accused of spying for NZSIS | Ryan Bridge TODAY
International relations expert Robert Patman discusses allegations that a Russian man spied for New Zealand. Video / Ryan Bridge TODAY
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Peter Bale, Bernard Hickey and I discuss whether NZ's selective approach to international law is blowing back on NZ's core national interests. Discussion begins at 5.22 mark. The Hoon for Thursday 23rd July: www.youtube.com/live/KGrke8-...
The Hoon for Thursday 23rd July 2026
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China's criticism of NZ for backing the 2016 PCA ruling against Beijing is unwarranted, but it highlights the dangers of NZ taking a selective approach to upholding international law: youtu.be/x-ppCvP2GYI?...
China's rebuke highlights NZ's inconsistency
YouTube video by Robert Patman
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President Trump's profound strategic misjudgement in launching a war against Iran has left his administration with little or no good options going forward: www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
Robert Patman discusses latest hostilities between US and Iran
The reignition of hostilities between the United States and Iran has again closed the Strait of Hormuz and seen Iranian missiles fired at targets throughout the Gulf states. Robert Patman, a professor...
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Wallace Chapman, Anna Fifield, Phil O'Reilly, and I discuss China missile launch in Pacific and whether Trump has emboldened Beijing in the Indo-Pacific region. Discussions begin around 5 min. mark. www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
The Panel with Anna Fifield and Phil O'Reilly, Part 1
Tonight, on The Panel, Wallace Chapman is joined by panellists Anna Fifield and Phil O'Reilly. First up, Kaikoura has been today's victim of ferocious weather, with the river bursting its banks. Motel...
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NZ's foreign policy blind spot is becoming harder to defend newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/17/n...
NZ's foreign policy blind spot is becoming harder to defend
From Otago University - Comment: NZ’s soft approach to Trump’s Iran war is exposing the strategic and economic costs of trying to hedge between principle and pragmatism, writes Robert Patman.
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Dr Peter Grace and I discuss the Xi Jinping-Trump meeting in Beijing and the importance of expertise and knowledge at such gatherings: youtu.be/kcMmLsgjNS4?...
The Xi Jinping - Trump Meeting and Intelligence Factor.
YouTube video by Robert Patman
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‘Dumb on so many levels’: unpacking the Peters v Luxon inferno over Iran emails thespinoff.co.nz/politics/01-...
‘Dumb on so many levels’: unpacking the Peters v Luxon inferno over Iran emails
When a prime minister is accusing his foreign minister of 'putting politics ahead of the national interest', it's way beyond a squabble.
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“The US-led international rules-based order, as we knew it, no longer exists in the Trump era and there is little indication the New Zealand government has fully come to terms with this reality.” www.odt.co.nz/opinion/trum...
The Trump administration and NZ
New Zealand has not realised the international rules-based order is over, Robert Patman writes. The US-led international rules-based order, as we...
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Some insights on the closeness of the US-Israel relationship why it may be changing. Alexia Russell, RNZ, The Detail, 27 March 2026: www.rnz.co.nz/news/thedeta...
Why Israel and the US are in lockstep - and why that might be changing
Billions in military aid crosses from the US to Israel but two current conflicts have many younger Americans questioning those ties.
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Is NZ's response to US/Israel attacks on Iran consistent with its support for a rules-based international order: youtu.be/ibzu/NQS0hkU...
NZ's muted response to US/Israel attacks on Iran could backfire.
YouTube video by Robert Patman
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Global significance of Mark Carney's Davos speech at a time of "rupture" www.youtube.com/watch?v=EugM...
Global significance of Carney's Davos speech
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Time to stop 'babying' Trump. Mark Carney is right. The old global order is over and New Zealand should heed this advice: www.odt.co.nz/news/world/o...
'Old order is over' - and why NZ should take heed
Canadian PM Mark Carney says middle and small powers mustn't cave in to bullying by great powers, and they should join forces to protect values and...
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An article called “Greenland - NATO’s Cemetery?” in the Russian govt newspaper, Rossiyskaya Gazeta (19 Jan. 2026) fully backed Trump's “rapid annexation” of Greenland but warned it would be “dangerous for the American president to ‘back down’ over Greenland": www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ffF...
Russia issues STUNNING response to Trump’s Greenland threats
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If the rules-based system is really crumbling, what could that mean for New Zealand? thespinoff.co.nz/politics/20-...
If the rules-based system is really crumbling, what could that mean for New Zealand?
Everybody's talking about World War Three, but we're as safe as safe can be… right? We asked some experts.
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Gerard Otto and I discussed Trump's intervention in Venezuela, the erosion of international law and the implications for New Zealand: youtu.be/cqc69Cg1188
G News Podcast - Prof Robert Patman - 15 Jan 25
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As Trump rewrites the rules in Venezuela, NZ faces a foreign policy reckoning theconversation.com/as-trump-rew...
As Trump rewrites the rules in Venezuela, NZ faces a foreign policy reckoning
The US intervention in Venezuela makes it clear NZ’s ‘softly softly’ foreign policy isn’t a feasible long-term response to a shifting world order.
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Jack Nyhof and I discuss Trump's opposition to an international rules-based order and the implications for Australia and New Zealand: www.skynews.com.au/world-news/u...
Donald Trump moving away from international ‘rules-based order’
University of Otago Department of Politics Professor Robert Patman claims US President Donald Trump is moving away from an international “rules-based order”. “That’s been a pattern of Trump’s second term in the White House,” Mr Patman told Sky News Australia. “Mr Trump made it quite clear he has little time for international law or international institutions unless they work in the interest of America first.”
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Jack Nyhof and I discuss the territorial sticking point in Trump's Ukraine peace plan: www.skynews.com.au/world-news/g...
‘Game breaker’: Territorial ‘sticking point’ threatens Ukraine peace deal
University of Otago Department of Politics Professor Robert Patman claims the territorial “sticking point” in the Ukraine peace deal is a “game breaker”. “President Trump, when he said 95 per cent deal has nearly been done,” Mr Patman told Sky News Australia. “The five per cent, given it’s based on a territorial sticking point, looks like it could be more than a thorny sticking point, but actually a game breaker.”
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Lee Feinstein, Peter Bale, Bernard Hickey and I discuss Trump's National Security Strategy document and whether the intern. rules-based order is finished. Discussion begins 20 mins into show. www.youtube.com/live/VrI_o6e...
The Hoon for Thursday 18th December 2025
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Reflecting on 2025, it is evident that New Zealand's foreign policy lacked robustness in upholding a system of rules-based trade and diplomacy: www.odt.co.nz/news/world/g...
Global Insight: 'Soft power counts' in troubled times
The last episode of Global Insight for 2025 reviews the biggest stories of the year.
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Trump’s National Security Strategy document now leaves the National-led coalition government with little room to avoid reassessing its stated goal of closer strategic alignment with the US. theconversation.com/trumps-new-s...
Trump’s new security strategy exposes the limits of NZ’s ‘softly-softly’ diplomacy
The new US National Security Strategy marks a historic break – and a problem for the NZ government’s policy of closer strategic alignment with Washington.
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Bruce Munro and I discuss the changing dynamics of the Ukraine conflict and how Zelenskyy is now taking the war into Russia's homeland on a consistent basis. youtu.be/_39HmMIfmKE?...
Ukraine takes the war to Putin's Russia
YouTube video by Robert Patman
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Bernard Hickey, Peter Bale and I analyse the Xi Jinping - Trump APEC meeting and Christopher Luxon's brief encounter with the US president. Discussion begins at 5.25 mark. www.youtube.com/live/ji3mlnf...
The Hoon for Thursday 30th October 2025
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Bernard Hickey, Peter Bale and I discuss how the economic squeeze is beginning to impact Putin's invasion of Ukraine and how China is managing the Trump challenge. Discussion begins at around 5.20' mark. The Hoon for Thursday 23rd October 2025 youtube.com/live/zLVNuOS... via @YouTube
The Hoon for Thursday 23rd October 2025
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New Zealand has no national interest in any settlement in Ukraine that compromises the country's sovereignty and territorial integrity: youtu.be/lE-87nzxyGU?...
NZ has no interest in Ukraine deal that rewards Putin's invasion
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