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Geopolitics

Frankfurt Stock Exchange (Ank Kumar).
Speeches

History doesn’t repeat but does it rhyme?

21 February 2024

Speech at PortfolioConstruction Forum’s Markets Summit 2024 in Sydney.

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Insights

Kiwi diplomacy as clear as mud

2 June 2023

If there is one constant in New Zealand’s foreign policy, it is its unpredictability.

Moscow, Russia.
Insights

Russia’s war against the West escalates

30 September 2022

We should let go of the illusion that normality will return once the war in Ukraine is over.

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The Australian

The foreign policy lessons NZ should learn from Germany

11 May 2022

When it comes to their foreign policy issues, you might not think Germany and New Zealand have much in common.

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Newsroom

The West is back

22 March 2022

Putin’s war on Ukraine, and Zelensky’s heroism, force us all to take a stand.

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Insights

The economic consequences of the war

11 March 2022

Russia’s actions have set in motion a chain of events that could plunge the world into a serious economic crisis.

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Other publications

Decades of pacifism gone in a day

4 March 2022

Germany has elevated security to the top of its political agenda.

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Insights

Our generation’s historic challenge

25 February 2022

We must rediscover the cultural and political foundations of our civilisation.

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Newsroom

Self-absorbed West needs reality check on actual existential threats

22 February 2022

It may be a good time for a reality check, especially in Western industrialised countries.

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Newsroom

Defrosting the trans-Atlantic relationship

17 November 2020

Healing US politics will be a tough challenge for Biden.

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Oliver Hartwich

I run The New Zealand Initiative, a Wellington think tank that argues for free markets, limited government and institutions that work. I grew up in Germany's Ruhrgebiet and worked in London and Sydney before moving to New Zealand in 2012. This site collects two decades of my columns, reports, speeches and interviews, with the occasional satire.

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The Martian Audit (2026)

Two Martian auditors land in the Wairarapa and are promptly fined for parking without consent. A satirical novella, free to download as PDF or EPUB.

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In the Meantime (2026)

Investing in a more tribal, less rational world. Written for the Da Vinci Lecture at the Portfolio Construction Forum. Free to read online.

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Leonardo's Legacy (2025)

Why investment professionals must become civilisational stewards. Written for the first Da Vinci Lecture at the Portfolio Construction Forum. Free to read online.

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Weekly podcast with Damien Grant

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