National Office and branch activities.

• Position: INSTITUTE NOTES - New Zealand Institute of International Affairs - Calendar

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On 17 December former Foreign Minister and Commonwealth Secretary-General Sir Don McKinnon launched Joanna Woods's book Diplomatic Ladies, New Zealand's Unsung Envoys at a reception at the National Library in Wellington.

Colin James (political journalist and analyst) spoke on 'Alone, Alone, All, All, Alone' at a meeting at Victoria University on 22 February. (The edited text of his address is to be found elsewhere in this issue.)

On 7 March the NZIIA joined with the Contemporary China Research Centre and the Centre for Strategic Studies to present a public lecture by Vice Minister Liu Jieyi of the International Department, Central Committee, Communist Party of China. His topic was 'China and the World 2013'.

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On 22 March Dr Serhat Guvenc, an associate professor at Kadir Has University, Istanbul, gave a presentation on 'Ships, Submarines and Aircraft: Naval and Aerial Aspects of the Gallipoli War'.

Auckland

On 20 March Dr Tim Beal (a Wellington-based author, researcher and educator) addressed the branch on tan Insight into North Korean Crisis'.

Christchurch

The following meetings were held:

13 Nov GeoffWard (former diplomat and director of the Ministy of Foreign Affairs and Trade's Asian Division), 'Asian Developments and Implications for New Zealand'.

6 Dec Stuart McMillan (NationalBusiness Review columnist and NZIIA life member), 'Running a War by Computer: Cyber Warfare and its Dilemmas'. (The text of this address is included elsewhere in this issue.)

12 Feb Peter Kennedy (NZIIA director), 'Europe: Who is in Charge?'

26 Feb Prof Stephen Goldston (Lincoln University), 'Science, Diplomacy and Trade from the Perspective of a Small OECD Country'.

11 Mar Madame Tan Xiutian (Chinese consul-general in Christchurch), 'China's Interest in the South Island'.

Hawke's Bay

Maritime researcher, writer and lecturer and former director of Victoria...