ABSTRACT
The political, economic, and legal questions for which globalization has become the answer are real enough, and too important for careless treatment. The law has served to translate new histories of New Zealand as distinct from Britain and inclusive of the Maori into practical social and economic policy with reference to the nineteenth century. The growing wave of decolonization and the entry into the United Nations of numerous newly created states put the issues of colonialism, racism, and minority rights on the international agenda. The consequence of internal decolonization in New Zealand has been the creation of space for multiple national ideologies to reside in the same bounded territorial space that is the state. New Zealand could only chart an independent future by resolving conflicts rooted in the past, but contemporary changes in international society impacted the routes open to achieving that independent future.
