Foreign policy
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A country's foreign policy is a set of goals that seeks to outline how that particular country will interact with other countries of the world and, to a lesser extent, non-state actors. Foreign policies generally are designed to help protect a country's national interests, national security, ideological goals, and economic prosperity. This can occur as a result of peaceful cooperation with other nations, or through aggression, war, and exploitation. It may be assumed that foreign policy is as ancient as the human society itself. The twentieth century saw a rapid rise in the importance of foreign policy, with virtually every nation in the world now being able to interact with one another in some diplomatic form.
Usually, creating foreign policy is the job of the head of government and the foreign minister (or equivalent). In some countries the legislature also has considerable oversight. As an exception, in France and Finland, it is the head of state who is responsible for foreign policy, while the head of government mainly deals with internal policy. In the United States, the head of state (the President) also functions as the head of government.
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[edit] International relations theory
The sub-discipline that specializes in the study of foreign policy is known as foreign policy analysis (FPA).
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[edit] Individual leaders
- 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 Mobutu Sese Seko
[edit] External links
- Foreign Policy Association
- International Affairs Forum
- Teaching Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War Era
- The National Committee on American Foreign Policy
- Foreign Policy Studies @ The Brookings Institution
- World Politics Review: A Foreign Policy and National Security Dailyaz:Xarici siyasət
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