Abstract
ABSTRACTThe colonial New Hebrides acquired independence and a new name, Vanuatu, in July 1980. The nascent state despite its expectations and exhortations of national sovereignty has dealt with challenges at several levels to its authority. I review a series of Vanuatu's sovereign competitors, both internal and external. These have included insurgent social movements, claimants to traditional (kastom) chiefly authority, foreign freebooters, former colonial powers France and Great Britain, and developmental aid donors with their political entanglements, including Australia and China. Understandings of sovereignty refract through local expectations of personal and communal interdependency. As such, Vanuatu's ‘fractionated’ sovereignty conforms to the current global economic and political situation.
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