Foreign policy

Foreign policy is a phrase used to reference a nation’s political position and guidelines in engaging other sovereign nations throughout the world. In the United States foreign policy is the primary concern for the Secretary of State, who is charged with the responsibility of upholding the nation’s views and interests.

Foreign policy more specifically refers to a political mode of diplomatic engagement. For allies and neutral nations, trade agreements may be discussed and enacted. For hostile or potentially hostile nations, sanctions and embargos may result.

The ultimate goal of any foreign policy must be the preservation of peace and financial markets and the maintenance of international relations through diplomacy.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Foreign policy”

• Obama faces hard sell on Afghan war decision

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 458
  President Obama will attempt to persuade the American public this week that more time, troops and money will accomplish what eight years of effort and every outside power in history have failed to achieve - a measure of military success in Afghanistan. The details and justification for Mr. Obamas new war policy will ...
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• Nominated Rajya Sabha members should not join political party: H.K. Dua

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  By Prashant SoodNew Delhi, Nov 29 (IANS) Nominated members of the Rajya Sabha, such as journalists, writers and artists, should not join any political party so that parliament is able to use their independent views on different matters, feels H.K. Dua, a newly-nominated member of the House of Elders. “Essentially, ...
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• Senate Committee On Foreign Relations Report: Tora Bora Revisited

  
  WOK3 — Authority: 440
  The report says it as plainly as can be; That our failure to capture of kill Bin Laden in the mountains of Tora Bora has been a f**k-up of the first magnitude.  And how the strategy of both Rumsfeld and General Franks risked far too much in order to keep a “light footprint” in a region where now our presence ...
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• Life Is So Strange Destination Unknown

  
  Stop The Spirit of Zossen 2.0 — Authority: 412
  A ndy Card is wrong yet again. The best time to roll out a new product is not the Fall. It’s Black Friday when Americans on the home front surge to battle for the latest in meaningless Chinese electronic trinkets and other ephemera. No wonder Card ran an automobile trade association. Days after President ...
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• Hillary’s Debacle as Honduran Democracy is Served Up

  
  latinopoliticsblog.com — Authority: 464
  One issue that has been of recent concern on this blog is the coup and pending elections in Honduras tomorrow. It has been five months since the de facto rulers of Honduras have ousted the democratically elected Mel Zelaya with the military, illegally exiling him instead of him being charged through a court of ...
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• Weekend reading on foreign policy and national security issues

  
  The Western Experience — Authority: 475
  by JasonNY Times | Diplomacy 1o1 (on Obama’s failure between Israel and Arab states)Peacemaking takes strategic skill. But we see no sign that President Obama and Mr. Mitchell were thinking more than one move down the board. The president went public with his demand for a full freeze on settlements before securing ...
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• Memo to the New York Times: This is what you get when you elect a naive ideologue with no experience

  
  The Lonely Conservative — Authority: 575
  What did the New York Times expect from President Barack Hussein Obama? Despite the fact that everything he does is unprecedented , did they ever stop to think that maybe, just maybe, Obama was a little too inexperienced for the top job in the nation? We reap what we sow, and what we – or should I say “they” ...
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• WEBSTER BROOKS OP-ED: Failed Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks May Sink Obama’s Middle East Strategy

  
  Booker Rising — Authority: 147
  The senior fellow at the Center for New Politics and Policy (USA) and moderate opines that U.S. President Barack Obamas failure to restart Israeli-Palestinian peace talks has severely diminished his administration’s hopes of achieving a two-state solution : "Since early November the Obama administration has ...
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• PM urged to lift Iraq inquiry secrecy

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Fears most explosive documents related to beginning of war will not be aired at Chilcot hearing Gordon Brown is facing demands to change the rules of the Iraq inquiry this weekend amid fears that the most explosive documents explaining why Britain went to war will not be made public. As the inquiry enters its ...
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• Chilcot inquiry: Whitehall mandarins take revenge on Tony Blair over Iraq

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Civil servants and diplomats are lining up to stick a knife into former PMs reputation Whitehall mandarins are supreme masters of subtle evasion. But they do not rise to the top of their trade without also knowing how to stick in the knife. At times the Chilcot inquiry into Britains involvement in Iraq since 2001, ...
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• Afghanistan summit to plan for withdrawal

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Gordon Brown sets out benchmarks for Kabul government to take control of disputed territory A lengthy withdrawal of international forces from Afghanistan will start unfolding towards the end of next year under plans to be agreed by allied powers at a conference in London in January. Days before President Barack ...
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  LATICONOMICS — Authority: 458
  Oh my. NY Times scorches Obama foreign policy Rick Moran A New York Times editorial has bestirred itself and heavily criticized the Obama Middle East policy as well as the incompetents who are running it. We were thrilled when President Obama decided to plunge fully into the Middle East peace effort. He ...
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• China’s House of Cards

  
  Behind Blue Lines — Authority: 112
  In multiple posts over the past year, I’ve taken a fairly contrarian view of China’s current position in the world. While certain media know-betters write purple prose about China’s supposed invincibility and its inevitable rise in the world, I’m less convinced. In my untutored view, China’s economy cannot ...
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• Clueless foreign policy

  
  LyfLines — Authority: 140
  More vicious, no-doubt racist criticism of President Messiah Obama: Mr. Obama’s own credibility is so diminished (his approval rating in Israel is 4 percent) that serious negotiations may be farther off than ever. Peacemaking takes strategic skill. But we see no sign that President Obama and Mr. Mitchell were ...
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• Video: Your Weekend War Porn Video

  
  Political Byline — Authority: 608
  I must say, that this, is SWEET to watch. The footage is from 2004 and was shot in Iraq. This comes via Apache Clips : I love posting stuff like this, because makes the Paleo-Conservative cowards and the liberal sissies heads explode!
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• Sunday shows: Warren, Huckabee, Obey, Bayh

  
  Top of the Ticket — Authority: 817
  ABCs " This Week With George Stephanopoulos": Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). Bloombergs "Political Capital" with Al Hunt: Kati Marton, author of "Enemies of the People: My Family’s Journey to America," and Robert Merry, author of "A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War ...
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• The End of History or a History of the End?

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 458
  A few years ago, Francis Fukuyama was widely criticized for his book claiming that mankind had seen “ The End of History .” Fukuyama contended that liberal democracy had won the debate over which system was best and, therefore, there was necessary no more “moving forward” for man’s social order. While ...
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• What Did They Expect?

  
  Front Page — Authority: 119
  The liberal press fawned over candidate Obama, a man with no relevant experience.  He’s an ameteur, they suddenly realize now.  And it is coming from all sides.The leading liberal rag, the New York Times, notes his foreign policy failures in an article stingingly titled Diplomacy 101:We were thrilled when ...
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• Nukes Are Like Toys Still in Their Box on Antiques Roadshow

  
  Newshoggers.com — Authority: 640
  By Russ Wellen The Deproliferator "We have reached the point where the senior military generals responsible for nuclear forces are advocating, more vocally, more vehemently, than our politicians, to get down to lower and lower weapons."-- General Eugene Habiger (Ret.), former head of U.S. nuclear forces, in 2000 ...
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• Lack of Change = Lack of Enthusiasm

  
  Newshoggers.com — Authority: 640
  Commentary By Ron Beasley As Dave noted the other day Self-preservation is not a Democratic instinct .  In the comments section of that post I wrote the following: People voted for the Democrats and Obama for change and they havegotten damn little of it. The danger in 2010 is that millions willsimply stay home ...
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