New Zealand in World Affairs: 1972-1990

"The eighteen years from 1972 to 1990 encompassed a near revolution in New Zealand's foreign relations. In the early seventies, New Zealand's approaches to Asia were piecemeal ; decolonisation in the Pacific had just begun ; aparthied remained firmly entrenched in South Africa ; and New Zealand's trade arrangement with Australia was distinguished as much by the bickering it produced as by its limited trading advantages. By 1990 all of these things had changed, all of them dramatically." -- Back cover.