Anne-Marie Brady

Anne-Marie Sharon Brady (born 1966) is a New Zealand politics researcher and full professor at the University of Canterbury who specialises in Chinese politics and its policies in the polar regions.[1][2]

Anne-Marie Brady
Born1966 (age 53–54)
Alma materAustralian National University
Scientific career
FieldsPolitics of China and polar politics
Thesis

Academic career

Anne-Marie Brady completed a Ph.D. at the Australian National University in 2000 with a thesis titled Making the foreign serve China: managing foreigners in the People's Republic of China. She moved to the University of Canterbury in 2001, rising to full professor.[1][3] She is the executive editor of The Polar Journal, published by Taylor & Francis.[4] She is also a fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Center, a think tank in Washington, D.C.,[3] a non-resident senior fellow at the China Policy Institute at the University of Nottingham in the UK,[1][5] and a member of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific.[1] She is fluent in Mandarin.[6] In 2019, Brady was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.[7]

Exposé of attempted Chinese Communist Party influence in New Zealand

In September 2017, she presented a conference paper Magic Weapons:China's political influence activities under Xi Jinping explaining how China attempts to influence international opinion and using New Zealand, as a case study. Brady's paper argued that the Chinese Government was working with Chinese diaspora community organisations and ethnic Chinese media as part of a united front strategy to advance Chinese political and economic interests in New Zealand. Chinese Communist Party soft power influence in New Zealand included working with diaspora organisations and local media to cultivate relationships with New Zealand business and politicians from the country's two major parties, National and Labour.[8][9][10]

In late 2017, she started to become the target of a campaign of intimidation.[11] A number of related properties were burgled, including her university office and home.[12][3][13][14] As of September 2018 progress was being made in the investigation and Interpol were involved.[15][16] In mid-February 2019, it was reported that the police investigation into the burglary and other incidents was still unresolved.[17][18][19]

In December 2018, 303 academics, think-tankers, journalists, human-rights activists, politicians signed an open letter that was published on the Czech academic website Sinopsis condemning the harassment campaign against Brady and urging the New Zealand Government to protect her so she could continue her research[20][21][22]

On 8 March 2019, it was reported that Brady had been blocked from submitting evidence to the New Zealand Parliament's justice select committee examining potential foreign influence in the New Zealand elections. The four Labour members of the justice select committee including chairperson Raymond Huo had decided to exclude Brady on "procedural grounds" that her testimony had passed the deadline; Huo had been named as a pro-China influencer in Brady's "Magic Weapons" paper. Their action was criticized by the opposition National Party including electoral reform spokesperson Nick Smith.[23][24] In response to media coverage and criticism from the National Party, the Labour Party announced that Huo had reversed his earlier decision and extended an invitation for Brady to speak to select committee members.[25][26]

Selected works
Library resources
By Anne-Marie Brady
  • — (2003). Making the foreign serve China: managing foreigners in the People's Republic. Rowman & Littlefield.
  • — (2006). "Guiding hand: The role of the CCP Central Propaganda Department in the current era". Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture. 3 (1): 58–77. doi:10.16997/wpcc.15.
  • — (2009). Marketing dictatorship: propaganda and thought work in contemporary China. Rowman & Littlefield.
  • — (2009). "The Beijing Olympics as a campaign of mass distraction". The China Quarterly. 197: 1–24. doi:10.1017/S0305741009000058.
  • — (2009). "Mass persuasion as a means of legitimation and China's popular authoritarianism". American Behavioral Scientist. 53 (3): 434–457. doi:10.1177/0002764209338802.
  • — (2018). "New Zealand and the CCP's 'magic weapons'". Journal of Democracy. 29 (2): 68–75. doi:10.1353/jod.2018.0026.

References
  1. "UC Research Profile - University of Canterbury - New Zealand". The University of Canterbury. Archived from the original on 21 June 2018. Retrieved 21 June 2018.
  2. Brady, Anne-Marie (10 December 2019). "Facing Up to China's Military Interests in the Arctic". Jamestown Foundation. Archived from the original on 7 April 2020. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
  3. Matthews, Philip (25 November 2017). "Academic Anne-Marie Brady confronts the power of China". Stuff. Archived from the original on 21 June 2018. Retrieved 21 June 2018.
  4. "The Polar Journal: Editorial board". Taylor & Francis. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
  5. "Non-resident fellows". China Policy Institute. Archived from the original on 28 November 2018. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
  6. Nippert, Matt; Fisher, David (20 September 2017). "Revealed: China's network of influence in New Zealand". The New Zealand Herald. Archived from the original on 28 November 2018. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
  7. "Researchers and scholars at the top of their fields elected as Fellows". Royal Society Te Apārangi. 21 November 2019. Archived from the original on 28 December 2019. Retrieved 27 November 2019.
  8. Brady, Anne-Marie (22 September 2017). "Magic weapons: China's political influence activities under Xi Jinping". apo.org.au. Archived from the original on 24 January 2019. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
  9. Brady, Anne-Marie (16–17 September 2017). Magic Weapons: China's political influence activities under Xi Jinping (PDF). The corrosion of democracy under China's global influence. Arlington County, Virginia: Taiwan Foundation for Democracy. pp. 1–57. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 January 2020. Retrieved 22 February 2019.
  10. Edwards, Bryce (12 December 2017). "Political Roundup: China's 'magic weapons' in NZ". New Zealand Herald. Archived from the original on 22 February 2019. Retrieved 22 February 2019.
  11. Roy, Eleanor Ainge (23 January 2019). "'I'm being watched': Anne-Marie Brady, the China critic living in fear of Beijing". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 24 January 2019.
  12. Brady, Anne-Marie (21 February 2018). "New Zealand v China - 'We could be the next Albania'". NZ Herald. Archived from the original on 21 June 2018. Retrieved 21 June 2018.
  13. Liddle, Steve (4 June 2018). "Steve Liddle: China threatens free speech far beyond its borders". NZ Herald. Archived from the original on 21 June 2018. Retrieved 21 June 2018.
  14. Harman, Richard (28 May 2018). "English denies China security breach as Washington criticises and Peters goes to Beijing". Politik. Archived from the original on 31 May 2018. Retrieved 21 June 2018.
  15. Nippert, Matt (15 September 2018). "The curious case of the burgled professor". The New Zealand Herald. Archived from the original on 15 September 2018. Retrieved 15 September 2018.
  16. Hála, Martin; Lulu, Jichang (20 December 2018). "The CCP's model of social control goes global". Sinopsis. Archived from the original on 14 April 2020. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
  17. "Anne-Marie Brady break-ins: Police investigation hits dead end". Radio New Zealand. 13 February 2019. Archived from the original on 15 February 2019. Retrieved 15 February 2019.
  18. Nippert, Matt (13 February 2019). "Police fail to crack case of burgled China scholar Anne-Marie Brady". New Zealand Herald. Archived from the original on 15 February 2019. Retrieved 15 February 2019.
  19. Walters, Laura (9 May 2019). "Harassment of outspoken China expert continues". Newsroom. Archived from the original on 18 May 2019. Retrieved 21 July 2019.
  20. "Open letter on harassment campaign against Anne-Marie Brady". Sinopsis. Archived from the original on 15 February 2019. Retrieved 15 February 2019.
  21. "International academics 'alarmed and appalled' over Anne-Marie Brady case". Radio New Zealand. 6 December 2018. Archived from the original on 15 February 2019. Retrieved 15 February 2019.
  22. Van Sant, Shannon (7 December 2018). "China Scholars Demand Protection For Threatened New Zealand Academic". NPR. Archived from the original on 8 December 2018. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  23. Coughlan, Thomas (8 March 2019). "China expert Anne-Marie Brady blocked from foreign interference inquiry". Stuff.co.nz. Archived from the original on 8 March 2019. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
  24. Garrick, Gia (8 March 2019). "National Party targets justice committee refusal to hear Anne-Marie Brady". Radio New Zealand. Archived from the original on 8 March 2019. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
  25. McCulloch, Craig (8 March 2019). "Labour MPs backtrack on Anne-Marie Brady committee decision". Radio New Zealand. Archived from the original on 8 March 2019. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
  26. Walls, Jason (8 March 2019). "Justice select committee chairman Raymond Huo opens invitation to Anne-Marie Brady to speak to MPs". New Zealand Herald. Archived from the original on 8 March 2019. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
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