de Jong, M2024-10-062024-10-062024-09-25Australian Journal of International Affairs, ISSN: 1035-7718 (Print); 1465-332X (Online), Informa UK Limited, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), 1-8. doi: 10.1080/10357718.2024.24037351035-77181465-332Xhttp://hdl.handle.net/10292/18104New Zealand's potential involvement in AUKUS poses a generational foreign policy decision, engaging competing commitments to Pacific and Anglosphere-centred security. This discussion paper identifies implications for New Zealand's regional engagement, and its previous independent, nuclear-free, and Pacific-led policy approaches. It suggests that the Blue Pacific narrative and Indo-Pacific Strategy are irreconcilable and that AUKUS involvement would undermine support for Pacific priorities of climate, development, and disarmament. We should not underplay what is at stake. New Zealand risks losing the Pacific to the Anglosphere.© 2024 Australian Institute of International Affairs. Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/4408 Political Science44 Human Society1605 Policy and Administration1606 Political ScienceInternational Relations4407 Policy and administration4408 Political scienceJournal ArticleOpenAccess10.1080/10357718.2024.2403735