- Foreign policy
A country's foreign policy also called the international relations policy is a set of goals outlining how the
country will interact with other countries economically, politically, socially and military, and to a lesser extent, how the country will interact with non-state actors. The aforementioned interaction is evaluated and monitored in attempts to maximize benefits of multilateral international cooperation. Foreign policies are designed to help protect a country'snational interest s,national security , ideological goals, and economicprosperity . This can occur as a result of peaceful cooperation with other nations, or through exploitation.Usually, creating foreign policy is the job of the
head of government and theforeign minister (or equivalent). In some countries thelegislature also has considerable oversight. As an exception, in France and Finland, it is thehead of state who is responsible for foreign policy, while the head of government mainly deals with internal policy. In theUnited States , the head of state (the President) also functions as thehead of government .International relations theory
The sub-discipline that specializes in the study of foreign relations is known as
foreign policy analysis (FPA).ee also
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Foreign affairs
*Foreign minister
*Ambassador
*International relations
*Policy
*Foreign policy doctrine Individual leaders
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Foreign policy of the George W. Bush administration
*Foreign policy of Hugo Chávez
*Foreign policy of the Clinton Administration
*Foreign policy of the Reagan administration
*Foreign policy of the Harper government
*Foreign policy of François Mitterrand
*Foreign policy of Olusegun Obasanjo External links
* [http://www.fpa.org Foreign Policy Association]
* [http://www.ia-forum.org International Affairs Forum]
* [http://www.ericdigests.org/1994/war.htm Teaching Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War Era]
* [http://www.ncafp.org/ The National Committee on American Foreign Policy]
* [http://www.brookings.edu/fp/fp_hp.htm Foreign Policy Studies @ The Brookings Institution]
* [http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com World Politics Review: A Foreign Policy and National Security Daily]
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