USA HISTORY

MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800

PRESIDENT JOHN ADAMS FROM ALIEN AND SEDITION ACTS TO XYZ AFFAIR

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What is the definition of foreign policies?
A
a government’s strategy in dealing with other nations.
B
plans and actions taken by the government in dealing with issues with its own country.
C
Either A or B
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -foreign policy, general objectives that guide the activities and relationships of one state in its interactions with other states. The development of foreign policy is influenced by domestic considerations, the policies or behaviour of other states, or plans to advance specific geopolitical designs.

Detailed explanation-2: -Foreign policy is the mechanism national governments use to guide their diplomatic interactions and relationships with other countries. A state’s foreign policy reflects its values and goals, and helps drive its political and economic aims in the global arena.

Detailed explanation-3: -Foreign policy is thus a plan or programme of actions of a state, which determines the sum-total of the state’s objectives in the international system. Put differently, they are the actions of a state toward the external environment and the conditions – usually domestic – under which such actions are formulated.

Detailed explanation-4: -Foreign Policy is a nation’s strategy in dealing with other nations aimed at achieving national objectives. Foreign policy has to be designed based on the situations and the nature of the world we live in today.

Detailed explanation-5: -According to Joseph Frankel, “foreign policy consists of decisions and actions, which involves to some appreciable extent relations between one state and others”7. By this, foreign policy involves set of actions that are made within state’s borders, intended towards forces existing outside the country’s borders [5-7].

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