Founding Director of @Diplosphere. Ex Executive Director, New Zealand Institute of International Affairs. LSE, Sorbonne & Inalco alumna.
Wellington City, New Zealand
Joined September 2013
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Maty Nikkhou-O'Brien retweeted
Be in the room.
What would a Labour government’s foreign policy look like?
Hear directly from @chrishipkins & @vanushi_walters at @diplosphere Foreign Policy Election Series.
Q&A chaired by Dr @MHdeJong
23 Sept | 7:30am|Parliament Buildings
Register: Diplosphere-ForeignPolicyLab…
Be in the room.
What would a Labour government’s foreign policy look like?
Hear directly from @chrishipkins & @vanushi_walters at @diplosphere Foreign Policy Election Series.
Q&A chaired by Dr @MHdeJong
23 Sept | 7:30am|Parliament Buildings
Register: Diplosphere-ForeignPolicyLab…
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Foreign policy rarely gets enough time in an NZ 🇳🇿election campaign.
Join the @diplosphere Foreign Policy Election Series for an exclusive conversation with @chrishipkins & @vanushi_walters.
23 Sept | 7:30am-9:00am | Parliament Buildings
#NZPolitics
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Foreign policy rarely gets enough time in an NZ 🇳🇿election campaign.
Join the @diplosphere Foreign Policy Election Series for an exclusive conversation with @chrishipkins & @vanushi_walters.
23 Sept | 7:30am-9:00am | Parliament Buildings
#NZPolitics
👉Diplosphere-ForeignPolicyLab…
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🌍 Why #Hungary’s democratic shift matters globally — and for NZ 🇳🇿
🇭🇺 Hear former INSEAD COO Attila Cselőtei, Hungarian historian Dr Martin Fisher & Dan O’Brien @distantKiwi discuss what’s at stake @diplosphere. open.substack.com/pub/diplos…
🌍 Why #Hungary’s democratic shift matters globally — and for NZ 🇳🇿
🇭🇺 Hear former INSEAD COO Attila Cselőtei, Hungarian historian Dr Martin Fisher & Dan O’Brien @distantKiwi discuss what’s at stake @diplosphere. open.substack.com/pub/diplos…
We spent a memorable weekend in the French towns of Le Quesnoy and Arras for #ANZAC
How do these events link to the world today?@diplosphere
open.substack.com/pub/diplos…
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#Iran: Not Just a Fuel Crisis — A Test for #NZ’s Foreign Policy? Join @diplosphere stellar line-up —@annafifield, Dr @rparsi (Lund University), @vanushi_walters + more — to unpack what the crisis means for NZ & beyond. 11 May, at
@NZParliament
Register: Diplosphere-IranCrisis.event…
#Iran: Not Just a Fuel Crisis — A Test for #NZ’s Foreign Policy? Join @diplosphere stellar line-up —@annafifield, Dr @rparsi (Lund University), @vanushi_walters + more — to unpack what the crisis means for NZ & beyond. 11 May, at
@NZParliament
Register: Diplosphere-IranCrisis.event…
Maty Nikkhou-O'Brien retweeted
This is beyond shameful: xitter.cf/atrupar/status/2042013…
When asked if it "bothered him at all" when Trump "threatened to kill the entire Iranian civilization," Rutte's response was simply: "what I want you to know is I support the President and I know a large part of Europe do."
If Europe cared at all about the "values" it supposedly has, this should be cause for immediate dismissal, and potentially criminal prosecution - publicly endorsing genocide would be classified as illegal hate speech in several EU countries, including in the Netherlands (Rutte's own country).
Maty Nikkhou-O'Brien retweeted
Eternal #Iran
Why the country matters more than just petrol prices and plane tickets, to New Zealand & the world.
@diplosphere @distantKiwi @HelenClarkNZ @DalrympleWill @Robert_Patman
Read here:
open.substack.com/pub/diplos…
Eternal #Iran
Why the country matters more than just petrol prices and plane tickets, to New Zealand & the world.
@diplosphere @distantKiwi @HelenClarkNZ @DalrympleWill @Robert_Patman
Read here:
open.substack.com/pub/diplos…
Maty Nikkhou-O'Brien retweeted
Non, cher Mark Rutte. Les Européens peuvent et doivent prendre en charge leur sécurité. Même les États-Unis en conviennent. C’est le pilier européen de l'OTAN.
💬"Si quelqu'un pense que l'UE peut se défendre sans les États-Unis, continuez à rêver"
L'Europe et les États-Unis ont "besoin l'un de l'autre", affirme le chef de l'Otan, Mark Rutte #BFM2
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“What I think has been very, very damaging is the great powers with the veto breaking the international rule of law themselves”: @HelenClarkNZ gives historical context to the current crisis in multilateralism, speaking to @TVPWorld_com from #Davos.
youtu.be/W9TPj1hfj0c?si=52_c…
Chance Wellington Airport encounter with former NZ Foreign Minister Murray McCully ✈️🇳🇿
From hosting his NZIIA valedictory speech to now, it feels like another world.
Worth reading his speech: beehive.govt.nz/speech/speec…
A mini-Davos at Raumati Beach 🌊 — diplomacy over a BBQ 🍗🔥
Great to reconnect with H.E. Viktor Vavricka @SwissAmbNZ, and family 🇨🇭🇳🇿
His 2024 @diplosphere message still resonates: international law works—but only when words match actions.
@distantKiwi
A timely conversation as the world sits at a point of #rupture 🌍
A pleasure to reconnect with H.E. @AmbChina2NZ Xiaolong🇨🇳🇳🇿
We discussed the state of the world. In a fractured world, the NZ–China relationship, built over decades, remains strong. @diplosphere @distantKiwi
🇳🇿 Clean and green?
NZ’s image as a good global citizen is more than branding — it is a necessity.
As O’Brien wrote, Modern NZ has embellished claims to be ‘clean and green’—for image and for hard-nosed commercial reasons. @distantKiwi @diplosphere #NZpol open.substack.com/pub/diplos…
Adieu Mr Bolger 🌿
“We can’t force anybody to do anything... All we can do is lead by intellectual argument and persuasion.”
A voice of reason we were fortunate to host @diplosphere.
The world needs more statesmen like him. More than ever.
#nzpol #NZIndependentForeignPolicy
Few leaders have the courage to speak truth to power in a moment of global inaction. Real leadership. In awe of @HelenClarkNZ’s courage & convictions.
Standing at closed #Rafah crossing to #Gaza where no people or vehicles enter or depart is an eerie experience. Beyond that gate is an unfolding famine & genocide. The world has a duty to act - otherwise “never again” are empty words. It’s on our watch. thepost.co.nz/politics/36078…
