Category: Foreign Policy

Foreign Policy is the strategy or approach chosen by the national government to achieve its goals in its international relations with the external entities, foreign policy is both the broad trends of behavior and the particular actions taken by a state. A countrys foreign policy is described in two environments. They are the domestic and…

Traditionally, academics have regarded foreign policy as an area of high politics (Almond, 1950). However, the possible effects of media, with the complex influence of public opinion, have garnered scholarly attention and debate for several decades now, without a clear consensus ever truly emerging. As Steven Livingston summarized: The impact of these new global, real-time…

The series of anti-government demonstrations, known as The Arab Spring, resulted in regime changes in various Middle Eastern and North African countries including Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya. Similarly, what started as nonviolent protests in Syria escalated quickly into a seemingly endless civil war when the regime forces used force to suppress the protesters. The Syrian…

With the 2019 Indonesian presidential election coming up, both candidates, which are Jokowi-Maruf and Prabowo-Sandiaga, have been campaigning their visions and missions. The two candidates will be competing for the second time after the 2014 presidential election where Jokowi won as Indonesias current president. From economic, human rights, laws until international relations concerns have been…

Achieving collective action around the national interest is essential in foreign policy making. Given the threats inherent in the international system, Americans have an old adage that politics stops at the waters edge, meaning that the nation should come together to achieve its common purposes in foreign policy. In addition to a concept of national…

The foreign policy of India regulates India’s relations with other states of the world in promoting its national interests. In recent years, there has been an unprecedented change in Indias foreign policy. The issues of Masood Azhar, the surgical strike, or the Indo-China tension all involved Indias foreign policy holders executing their work effectively. Geographical…

Iakov Frizis examines the impact of modern media on foreign policy development in this essay. This paper looks at media in two ways: as an input source for decision-making and as a setting that actors must consider during policy formulation. The current structure, according to the author, is anarchic, competitive, and inter-polar, while states’ socialization…

The Progressive movement was a turn-of-the-century political movement interested in furthering social and political reform, curbing political corruption caused by political machines, and limiting the political influence of large corporations. Although many Progressives saw U.S. power in a foreign arena as an opportunity to enact the Progressive domestic agenda overseas, and to improve foreign societies,…

There has ever been changes in the world order in the sense that either a country whose economic, social and political spheres are much more advanced that they have a lot more say in the global environment than other less advanced countries. Or it could be that after winning in the battle field the winners…

Abstract The year 2018 marks the 20th anniversary of a formal declaration of friendship and partnership between Russia and Kazakhstan. In this context, this paper analyses the relations between the two largest states in the former USSR, Russia and Kazakhstan during the years from 1991 to present with an emphasis on Russian Foreign policy and…