Abstract
In 1993 when I gave a paper at the University of Otago Foreign Policy School on “The Influence of Individuals and NGO’s on New Zealand Foreign Policy Making 1943–1993” (Trotter, 1993), I was able to report that the 1980s had been a period of intense social and political ferment; the peace movement was at its zenith; the left of the New Zealand Labour Party had achieved the Nuclear-Free Zone, Disarmament and Arms Control Act 1987 and the right of the party had introduced “Rogernomics”. In many ways, the influence of the anti-nuclear movement on New Zealand’s foreign policy peaked during this time.