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”

• Global Rich and Poor, and US Corporate Centralism

  
  Everyday Citizen — Authority: 514
  Former Secretary of Labor, Prof. Robert Reich discussed the limitation of China as a source of boosting US economy and jobs in his blog, “Obama, China, and Wishful Thinking About American Jobs,” at Huffington Post. He points out the limitation of China in boosting US economy and jobs as China’s high savings and ...
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• Obama’s Indecision

  
  NObama Blog — Authority: 143
  Ken Blackwell : “Cost of indecision about Afghanistan is mounting.” That’s not a headline on Townhall.com. It’s the title of a column by the dean of liberal Washington pundits, David Broder.Even David Broder is concerned about President Obama’s failure to decide on a proper course of action in the war the ...
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• George Soros On Reflexivity And Fallibility–Videos

  
  Pronk Palisades — Authority: 433
  REFLEXIVITY AND FALLIBILITY – Part 01/13 REFLEXIVITY AND FALLIBILITY – Part 02/13 REFLEXIVITY AND FALLIBILITY – Part 03/13 REFLEXIVITY AND FALLIBILITY – Part 04/13 REFLEXIVITY AND FALLIBILITY – Part 05/13 REFLEXIVITY AND FALLIBILITY – Part 06/13 REFLEXIVITY ...
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• Sunday shows: Singh, Fiorina, Coburn, Nelson, Kyl

  
  Top of the Ticket — Authority: 820
  ABC This Week with George Stephanopoulos: Sens. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) and Ben Nelson (D-Neb.), Reps.Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), and around table with ABCs George Will, Liz Cheney,Aspen Institutes Walter Isaacson and Robert Reich. Bloomberg Political Capital with Al Hunt: Sen. ...
  7 hours ago

• Todays GOP-only Randians, fundamentalists, and Know-Nothings need apply?

  
  Rene's Apple — Authority: 430
  Voting for the Democrats- the party that under John Kennedy stood for promoting freedom around the world, low taxes, free trade, and more-and today stands for none of these things (plus fetishistically endorses abortion), simply isnt an option. But what many Catholic Republicans like myself wonder is-do we really ...
  9 hours ago

• The Annual Protest at the School of the Americas/Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation

  
  Alterdestiny — Authority: 574
  Erwin reminds us that today is the day of the annual protest against the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHISC), formerly known as the School of the Americas. The name-change happened back in 2001, when the Bush administration realized the Schools name had been associated with some of the worst ...
  9 hours ago

• Of Good Intentions And Imperial Overreach

  
  Newshoggers.com — Authority: 654
  By Steve Hynd Yesterday, my good friend Derrick Crowe posted a quote from a recent piece on just wars by the Center for American Progress. It struck me as perfectly encapsulating the pitfalls of the kind of "we didnt mean to aquire one" notion of benevolent empire Americans seem to have inherited from we Brits. ...
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• Millibands Lies and Spin for Continued Occupation

  
  Newshoggers.com — Authority: 654
  By Steve Hynd David Milliband, the British Foreign Secretary, is a typical Blairite. If his lips are moving, hes spinning something - nothing gets said without it serving a domestic political purpose. Yesterday he had this to say about Afghanistan : In an interview with the Guardian at the end of a visit to Kabul ...
  10 hours ago

• Tax Increase Campaign Item 3: Wars Cost Money And Rich Must Pay, MI Senator Levin Tells Bloomberg

  
  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Authority: 832
  At this point, there should be little doubt that there is a concerted attempt underway to use the war in Afghanistan as a justification for punitively taxing high earners. Last weekend (noted at NewsBusters ; at BizzyBlog ), the New York Times discovered that wars cost money. It cited Wisconsin Democratic ...
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• Saturdays Steyn: The Superbower

  
  Pundit & Pundette — Authority: 627
  On our eminently unqualified president:Along with his choreographic gaucherie goes his peculiar belief that all of human history is just a bit of colorful backstory in the Barack Obama biopic — or as he put it in his video address on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall:“Few would have foreseen on ...
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• Nuristan, Afghanistan

  
  WOK3 — Authority: 440
  New operational guidelines from General McChrystal indicate that Forward Observation Posts are to be abandoned in favor of pulling a majority of troops to be stationed in larger cities, so I cannot understand this press release from the Combined Joint Task Force-82 (re-named CJTF 101), where they state that they ...
  14 hours ago

• Caroline Glick – Time’s Up

  
  The Conservative Reform Network Blog — Authority: 141
  This is a very important piece on Iran’s Nuclear Threat by Caroline Glick, a committed and insightful analyst. Note the reference to Electromagnetic Pulse attack. Caroline Glick is one of the most perceptive and articulate writers.   Caroline Glick    Full disclosure: I am a national board member of ZOA, ...
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• The Honduran elections: proceding on schedule

  
  Common Sense Political Thought — Authority: 142
  To the chagrin of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and the other Usual Suspects, the Honduran elections scheduled for November 29th are proceding on schedule: Honduras elections: Security Soldiers in La Ceiba Z-day, June 28, 2009 The military and police have been in strategy sessions in preparation ...
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• Weekly remarks: Obama on Asia trip, Sen. Mike Crapo on healthcare costs, cuts

  
  Top of the Ticket — Authority: 820
  Weekly Remarks by President Obama, as provided by the White House Hi. I’m recording this message from Seoul, South Korea, as I finish up my first presidential trip to Asia. As we emerge from the worst recession in generations, there is nothing more important than to do everything we can to get our economy moving ...
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• Baroness Cathy Ashton... Genesis of the EU Daleks

  
  The Final Redoubt — Authority: 441
  Given that the European Union often resembles another planet to many Britons, its perhaps appropriate that its new Foreign Policy chief has a full-size Dalek in her living room.
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• What’s Going On With Blackwater Massacre Case?

  
  The Impudent Observer - Global Liberal Issues — Authority: 445
  From all accounts the events that happened in Nisoor Square in Baghdad in 2007 when guards working for the Blackwater corporation opened fire on Iraqis and killed 17 it was evident there was no ambush and the guards over-reacted. Initial investigation of the events led the State Department to cancel contracts with ...
  21 hours ago

• Have A US Passport, Get Hassled In Denmark!

  
  The Impudent Observer - Global Liberal Issues — Authority: 445
  The Danish government is instituting tighter checks on individuals carrying American passports who enter their nation, particularly, anyone who is coming from the Middle East. US intelligence has indicated many terrorists are securing an American passport as a way to more readily enter a European nation. Ordinarily, ...
  21 hours ago

• BOs trip was not a profile in courage or much of a success!

  
  My view by Silvio Canto, Jr. — Authority: 140
  Pres BOs trip to China was a disappointment, specially if you believe that the US should say something about human rights. Also, didnt candidate BO say this in 2008 : "Way back in March 2008, widespread protests erupted across the Tibetan plateau and were brutally crushed by a massive ...
  21 hours ago

• Obama Returns to Greater Middle East Mess

  
  Antiwar.com Original — Authority: 130
  As Barack Obama arrives home from his weeklong tour of East Asia, he confronts a growing list of ever more urgent problems in the Greater Middle East that he inherited from George W. Bush’s "global war on terror."From Palestine to Pakistan, Obama, who also faces a major fight in getting [...]
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• Can Nuclear Terrorists Be Deterred?

  
  The Smirking Chimp - News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy — Authority: 631
  THE DEPROLIFERATOR -- As you no doubt know, deterrence is the product of a balance of power -- nuclear arsenals, in other words, that are roughly equal. Constrained by the eye-for-an-eye principle, but to the umpteenth power, states armed with nuclear weapons, such as the United States and the Soviet Union during the ...
  22 hours ago

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