Academic work

Article Pacific Wayfinder

Soft power, hard risks: how politicising army biculturalism weakens NZ’s Pacific credibility

An article examining how political intervention into the New Zealand Army's bicultural doctrine risks sacrificing Aotearoa's credibility in the Pacific for domestic political gain.

@article{evett2026a,
    title = "Soft power, hard risks: how politicising army biculturalism weakens NZ’s Pacific credibility",
    author = "Jayden Evett",
    journal = "Pacific Wayfinder",
    year = "2026",
    month = "March",
    day = "26",
    url = "https://pacificsecurity.net/blog/soft-power-hard-risks-how-politicising-army-biculturalism-weakens-nzs-pacific-credibility/",
}

Book chapter In Oceanic Diplomacy

The role of indigenous diplomacy in the success of the 1997 Burnham peace talks

A chapter in the book 'Oceanic Diplomacy' (2025) analysing how indigenous diplomacy shaped the success of the 1997 Burnham peace talks that helped end the Bougainville Civil War.

Based on my Master's thesis

@inbook{evett2025c,
    title = "Mā whero, mā pango ka oti te mahi: The role of indigenous diplomacy in the success of the 1997 Burnham peace talks",
    author = "Jayden Evett",
    chapter = "17",
    pages   = "355–384",
    year    = "2025",
    publisher = "Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, University of Canterbury",
}

Article E-Tangata

Impulse and ego are risking Pacific diplomacy

An article examining how personality and political ego are derailing Aotearoa New Zealand's Pacific diplomacy under the Luxon government to diplomacy's detriment.

@article{evett2025b,
    title = "Impulse and ego are risking Pacific diplomacy",
    author = "Jayden Evett",
    journal = "E-Tangata",
    year = "2025",
    month = "August",
    day = "17",
    url = "https://e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-analysis/impulse-and-ego-are-risking-pacific-diplomacy/",
}

PhD thesis The Australian National University

He kohuka whakarerekē: The Māori Renaissance and its impact on Aotearoa New Zealand's Pacific diplomacy

A thesis examining the impact of the Māori Renaissance on Aotearoa New Zealand's Pacific diplomacy through the decolonisation of national identity.

@phdthesis{evett2025a,
    author  = "Jayden Evett",
    title   = "He kohuka whakarerekē: The Māori Renaissance and its impact on Aotearoa New Zealand's Pacific diplomacy",
    school  = "The Australian National University",
    year    = "2025",
    month   = "June",
}

Conference presentation Pacific Islands Political Studies Association Conference, Wellington

The Māori Renaissance, identity change, and Aotearoa's Pacific diplomacy

Seminar Australian National University

He aha ō tātou: understanding the 2023 New Zealand election and its impact

Organised and facilitated a discussion panel with Professor Dominic O'Sullivan, Dr Areti Metuamate and Dr Karen Baker.

Article New Zealand International Review

Why business as usual is a risk for New Zealand’s foreign policy

An article critiquing the first foreign policy speech by then-PM Chris Hipkins, warning that 'values-based' diplomacy had lost meaning and direction.

@article{evett2023,
    title = "Why business as usual is a risk for New Zealand's foreign policy",
    author = "Jayden Evett",
    journal = "New Zealand International Review",
    year = 2023,
    volume = "48",
    number = "5",
    month = "September",
    pages  = "19--20",
}

Article Asia and the Pacific Policy Forum

Does New Zealand’s indigenous diplomacy measure up?

An article assessing the turn to indigenous diplomacy under then-Foreign Minister Mahuta against the foreign ministry’s longer history of superficial cultural transformation.

@article{evett2022,
    title = "Does New Zealand’s indigenous diplomacy measure up?",
    author = "Jayden Evett",
    journal = "Asia and the Pacific Policy Forum",
    year = "2022",
    month = "October",
    day = "7",
    url  = "https://www.policyforum.net/does-new-zealands-indigenous-diplomacy-measure-up/index.html",
}

Guest lecture Australian National University

Māori land rights and the Treaty of Waitangi in Aotearoa New Zealand

A guest lecture for ASIA2093 Natural Resource Conflicts in Asia and the Pacific, delivered in 2021 and 2022.

Seminar Australian National University

Envisioning Pacific Futures

Co-coordinator and panellist, with colleagues.

Master's thesis The Australian National University

Mā whero, mā pango ka oti te mahi: The role of indigenous diplomacies in the success of the 1997 Burnham talks

A subthesis analysing how the use of indigenous Māori and Melanesian diplomatic practices achieved a lasting ceasefire in the Bougainville Civil War.

@mastersthesis{evett2021,
    author  = "Jayden Evett",
    title   = "Mā whero, mā pango ka oti te mahi: The role of indigenous diplomacies in the success of the 1997 Burnham talks",
    school  = "The Australian National University",
    year    = "2021",
    month   = "June",
}

Conference paper Australasian Study of Parliament Group Conference, Canberra

Commencement prayers as a measure of inclusivity and representativeness in Oceanian parliaments

@inproceedings{evett2019,
    title = "Commencement prayers as a measure of inclusivity and representativeness in Oceanian parliaments",
    author = "Jayden Evett",
    booktitle = "Australasian Study of Parliament Group Conference",
    address = "Canberra",
    year = "2019",
    month = "October",
    url = "https://www.aspg.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/ASPG-2019-Paper-EVETT-Jayden.pdf",
}

Article Polemics

The Church of contradictions: a review of Pope Francis's five-year tenure

@article{evett2018,
    title = "The Church of contradictions: a review of Pope Francis's five-year tenure",
    author = "Jayden Evett",
    journal = "Polemics",
    year = "2018",
    month = "February",
    day = "28",
    url = "https://www.polemics-magazine.com/europe/church-contradictions-review-pope-francis-five-year-tenure",
}

Conference paper 11th New Historians Conference, Wellington

Secularism and the instruction of the Italian language