Abstract
It may surprise students of New Zealand foreign policy to know that at times in the course of New Zealand’s foreign policy history, the decision making process may have been more a spontaneous and ad hoc one than a carefully considered game-plan. In a candid account of his time as Head of the Prime Minister’s Office (1985–1990), John Henderson observed that the reality of foreign policy formation differed somewhat from the “orderly, rational decision making process which is sometimes portrayed in political science textbooks”. He cited the Prime Minister he served, David Lange, as remarking that foreign policy events could be given a coherence afterwards, when in reality any single episode “seemed like a shambles when it happened”.
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