Firth, Stewart2024-09-022024-09-02Canberra, ACT: Dept. of Pacific Affairs, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, The Australian National University2209-9549https://hdl.handle.net/1885/733716089Vanuatu has just produced its first ever Foreign Policy Paper, entitled National Foreign Policy: A Foreign Policy for Vanuatu and its People (Republic of Vanuatu 2024), which gives expression to longstanding principles of the way Vanuatu engages with the world. Among these are support for nonalignment, UN peacekeeping, denuclearisation and decolonisation as well as a commitment to the region’s 2018 Boe Declaration and 2022 Strategy for the Blue Pacific Continent. Above all, Vanuatu has sought to avoid being a mere satrapy of more powerful states such as Australia.Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and TradeAuthors retain copyrightVanuatuForeign Policy2024-09-0210.25911/C20N-WR83