Peter Grace
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University of Otago. Teaching: security, foreign policy, intel studies. Research: Early Cold War intelligence. Co-Director Otago National Security School
Joined August 2009
Today we had NZSIS visit to preview the 2025 Threat Assessment and discuss intel careers. A full house again (with picture of desktop as good opsec, don’t want trouble). Class is working on their own threat assessment so great to compare notes.
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RT @stephendziedzic: Court documents say the (unnamed) Chinese woman facing foreign interference charges in Canberra had some very substant….
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RT @PeterCGrace: Great to have NZSIS presenting at the Aspen-Otago National Security Forum. More announcements to come!.
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Registrations open now. Other sessions include: the Australian/NZ threat landscape, AI and Espionage, Frozen Conflict? Antarctica as a Contested Space, North Korea's Nuclear Deterrence and the Implications for Regional Security. @ASPI_org.
otago.ac.nz
The University of Otago National Security School has strong connections with the Otago Foreign Policy School, and is usually held early every year.
How will AI change espionage? Anne Neuberger, fmr Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technology, National Security Council joins Chris Taylor, head of ASPI's Statecraft and Intelligence Centre. Aspen Otago National Security Forum, Queenstown, Sat 11 Oct 2025
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Great to have NZSIS presenting at the Aspen-Otago National Security Forum. More announcements to come!.
Registrations now open: Aspen-Otago National Security Forum, Sat 11 Oct, QT Hotel (above Rydges), Queenstown. We are excited that the counterterrorism lead, NZ Security Intelligence Service, will present a new Five Eyes report on Youth Radicalisation. See link below. @ASPI_org
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Full house today (120 students) for former head of the NZ foreign service Chris Seed. Fantastic presentation on NZ’s position in an unstable world. Big Q&A session afterwards (the biggest since Gerald Hensley’s visit in 2019.) Thanks to Chris!
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RT @CoreraJames: 🚨 Foreign espionage is now a major economic threat to Australia. ASIO has officially revealed that such activity cost the….
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I talked to Corin Dann on Morning Report about the FBI opening an office in Wellington.
rnz.co.nz
FBI director Kash Patel opened the office in Wellington on Thursday, meeting with ministers, the police commissioner, and the Directors-General of the NZSIS and GCSB. University of Otago lecturer Dr...
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Great to have former US diplomat Ford Hart talking to the class from Virginia this morning. Ford has been a friend of Pols213 for some years now, and always appreciate his perspective on the US-NZ relationship. Next week we have former head of MFAT Chris Seed. A stellar line up!
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RT @TheSpyTheState: How has recent CIA history influenced US civil-intelligence relations? Here are some observations in a @TheTLS review o….
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Readers of these two books may wonder whether spy fiction and political dramas have a future. The authors certainly provide rich background for aspiring thriller writers. But they suggest that...
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A chance to talk about Shaun Walker and Douglas Walller’s new books, as well as namecheck books by @RoryCormac and Richard Aldrich, Kevin Riehle, Luca Trenta, Emrah Gurkhan, Helen Fry. Shout out to to spy publishers @Georgetown_UP, @EdinburghUP and @yalepress.
Amid a welter of spy stories, two releases highlight the toll on agents playing the long game between East and West. 🔗 Read the full story at the link below.
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Teaching POLS213 NZ Foreign Policy again. Abdicated my duties for Lecture 1 and got former Deputy PM and POLS213 alumni Grant Robertson to run it. Grant talked about Covid 19, an enormously difficult decision that affected foreign policy and everything else. Students v. impressed
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Our first speaker line up for the Aspen Otago National Security Forum is Chris Taylor of @ASPI_org, interviewing the Biden Administration’s emerging tech czar Anne Neuberger on the huge challenges artificial intelligence poses for espionage and analysis. @StatecraftINT.
How will AI change espionage? Anne Neuberger, fmr Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technology, National Security Council joins Chris Taylor, head of ASPI's Statecraft and Intelligence Centre. Aspen Otago National Security Forum, Queenstown, Sat 11 Oct 2025
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RT @TheSpyTheState: This article makes the case for studying US intelligence history by barely mentioning intelligence at all, even though….
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RT @fundypost: "The taste of the common man in New Zealand, I think I can safely say, is very raw," said Professor Nikolaus Pevsner in a BB….
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‘The English delegate said that while much could be said against a practice which personally seemed to him rather unsportsmanlike, still he felt he must reserve the right of any cannibal allies of Britannia to go as far as they liked.’.
For first part of my career I described myself add an arms controller, but there’s not a lot of arms control around now. A brief historical survey to explain what went wrong. (This one is free). .
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“The panel is tasked with reviewing records to make recommendations to the State Department’s Office of the Historian and Foreign Service Institute for its Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) series…”
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The Trump administration last month quietly fired members of the Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation, a nonpartisan body tasked with publishing a record of U.S. foreign policy…
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Is the national security system robust enough to withstand shock, and fleet-footed enough to respond to black swans? Rolfe asks whether it focuses more on the right processes than it does the right people, and if it ‘lacks imagination’, making NZers less secure. @NZIIA_live
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