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”

• U.S. ‘Hell Bent’ On Iraq War Says Former British Ambassador To United Nations

  
  CAFFEINATED POLITICS — Authority: 440
  The news that is emerging from Britain about President Bush and his desire to start a war in Iraq is unsettling to be sure, but it is not surprising.  Many Americans who followed the story of how President Bush manipulated his way to war in Iraq knew the facts one day would be revealed.  A [...]
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• Syria’s Path to Islamist Terror

  
  netwmd.com - The War to Mobilize Democracy — Authority: 423
  by Michael Rubin*While the Obama administration and congressional leaders may justify renewed engagement with Syria with their desire to jumpstart the Middle East peace process, they ignore the very issue that lies at the heart of the Syrian threat to U.S. national security: Syrian support for radical Islamist terror. ...
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• Iraq inquiry: Dancing to American drums

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 163
  Tony Blair has yet to testify before Sir John Chilcots inquiry into the Iraq war, but he must already be squirming after the first weeks evidence. Contrary to expectations, the mandarins have not pulled their oh-so-elegant punches. Freed from obligations of loyalty, they appear to be addressing the fundamental ...
  11 hours ago

• Les Gelb explains, endorses, Obama’s new Afghan strategy

  
  The Reid Report — Authority: 507
  Over at  The Daily Beas t, Foreign policy expert Lesley Gelb explains what he has learned from insiders about President Obama’s new Afghanistan strategy, and gives it the thumbs up : President Barack Obama’s long-awaited Tuesday speech on Afghanistan offers lots more troops to the military and some promising ...
  12 hours ago

• The Shine Is Tarnishing – The True Obama Appears

  
  NO QUARTER — Authority: 570
  * bumped up * Well, it seems like it is finally happening. The world community to which Obama pandered during the campaign is starting to realize what many Americans now know (and some of us always did): He’s not all he’s cracked up to be. In this article from Spiegel , “ Obama’s Nice Guy Act Gets Him ...
  14 hours ago

• Limbaugh: Romney Is a 3 Legs Conservative (February 5, 2008)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 174
  Reversing his previously stated belief that none of the Republican candidates for the GOP presidential nomination have all three legs of the conservative stool, Rush Limbaugh told his listeners Monday that Mitt Romney is indeed a three-leg conservative. Describing the three legs as "national security/foreign policy, ...
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• The making of the presidents foreign policy

  
  LATICONOMICS — Authority: 458
  The decider The long delay over Afghanistan suggests that Barack Obama seems determined to conduct foreign policy in person IT IS the hardest call he has so far had to make, and he has taken his time doing it. On November 24th, after the ninth in a protracted series of situation-room conferences on the ...
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• The Green Slime

  
  Black & Right — Authority: 548
  I’m not talking about the now-very cheesy 1968 sci-fi flick that freaked me out as a child. No, I’m talking about the green slime environmentalists who ridiculed anyone who didn’t get in line and give their homage to the all things green. We were told to conserve, recycle, change our way of life and save the ...
  15 hours ago

• Taliban Propaganda Channel on YouTube: Mujahideen Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, Jihad Against American Puppets, Zionist Intruders

  
  American Power — Authority: 708
  From Jawa Report, " The next time the Taliban kill an American, thank Googles YouTube service for helping spread their vile propaganda ." Yep, it turns out YouTube hosts a Taliban Mujahideen channel that publishes all kinds of videos documenting attacks on American forces in Afghanistan. One video, " Islamic ...
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• The End of the Arabs?

  
  P U L S E — Authority: 582
  In 2007 I read Peter W. Galbraith’s “The End of Iraq“, which suggests cutting Iraq into three mini-states, and then responded in two parts. The first part criticises Galbraith’s thesis, and the second part criticises the failures of Arabism. Both are merged below. More recently it has been revealed that ...
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• IAEA Board Censures Iran, Sanctions May Not Be So Easy

  
  Newshoggers.com — Authority: 633
  By Steve Hynd With any Iranian nuclear fuel swap deal seemingly DOA , the board of the International Atomic Energy Agency has swiftly passed a vote condemning Iran for not being forthcoming enough in answering charges  derived from the dodgy Laptop of Death and has called upon Iraq to close the Qom "hole in a ...
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• History of US intervention in Honduras

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  The superpower was behind the rise of the original banana republic – and the fall of its latest president Fruit corporations from the US turned Honduras, an impoverished tropical backwater, into a huge banana plantation at the start of the 20th century. They dominated its economy and politics, making it the ...
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• Who decides if a war is legal? | Chris Ames

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 163
  In a careful performance at the Iraq inquiry Sir Jeremy Greenstock claimed to have been ill-informed, not naive Sir Jeremy Greenstocks questioning of the legitimacy – as opposed to the legality – of the Iraq war raises two pretty big questions of politics and international and law. Who decides if a war is ...
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• Getting Up To Date On: Pakistan

  
  Newshoggers.com — Authority: 633
  By Steve Hynd Weve already covered some of the news on Afghanistan readers might have missed over Thanksgiving. Now, what about its neighbour Pakistan? Well, the big pre-Turkey story was Jeremy Scahills expose of the involvement of a Blackwater subsiduary in gathering intelligence, drone operation and covert ...
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• Getting Up To Date On: Afghanistan

  
  Newshoggers.com — Authority: 633
  By Steve Hynd We hope all our American readers had a good Thanksgiving. But the news keeps rolling on despite holidays, so its time to play catch-up with foreign policy and affairs. Lets start with Afghanistan and the ongoing U.S.-led occupation there. With Obamas speech on his new Afghanistan strategy due on ...
  18 hours ago

• Celebrate Eid-ul-Adha and the Hajj By Parting With Your Tax Money

  
  America's Right — Authority: 554
  On Wednesday, as millions of Americans began to gather family, friends and turkey for the Thanksgiving holiday and in advance of the Christmas and Hanukkah holidays, another holiday of sorts was on the mind of President Barack Obama. The celebrations are Eid-ul-Adha and the Hajj, the latter being the traditional ...
  19 hours ago

• Obama in China - An Example of Village Group-Think, In Stark Relief

  
  Library Grape — Authority: 138
  I really do seriously wonder if our news media will be the death of us. Remember all the pantswetting in the respectable establishment media about how Obamas trip to China was embarrassing and how Obama didnt seem to be getting much from the Chinese? All of this which is borne of their obsession with real-time, ...
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• Another Obama Gitmo Official Resigns in Obama Smoke Screen Effort

  
  Publius Forum — Authority: 569
  -By Warner Todd Huston Earlier this month President Obama fired Greg Craig, his main counsel on matters concerning the Guantanamo Bay Facility. And this week Obama sheds another one of his GITMO team with the resignation of Deputy Assistant Secretary for Defense for Detainee Policy Phillip Carter. It appears that ...
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• Obama, Lula, and Iran: Understanding the Complexities of International Relations

  
  Alterdestiny — Authority: 484
  One of the refrains Ive heard from some in Latin American and in the U.S. is that Obama is no different than Bush in terms of policies. These claims are clearly laughable at face value, and every value beyond that. Still, some still make those claims, based mostly on a "reasoning" that (and I paraphrase) "Obama ...
  19 hours ago

• Friday, November 27, 2009

  
  Rising in Phoenix — Authority: 129
  Blog writers are saying that it took forty people in India, working for three weeks, to make Michelle Obama’s State dinner dress, all gold and shimmery. Don’t forget it’s Buy Nothing Day. Does anyone else find it ironic that the most popular selling toy this Christmas season is a mechanical hamster, ...
  21 hours ago

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