Definition of Foreign policy

1. Noun. A policy governing international relations.


Definition of Foreign policy

1. Noun. A government's policy relating to matters beyond its own jurisdiction: usually relations with other nations and international organisations. ¹

2. Noun. Used retrospectively, the sum of a leader or government's dealings and relations with other nations. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Foreign Policy

foreign exchange
foreign exchange market
foreign exchange markets
foreign exchanges
foreign key
foreign keys
foreign language
foreign languages
foreign legion
foreign medical graduates
foreign minister
foreign ministers
foreign mission
foreign office
foreign policies
foreign policy (current term)
foreign professional personnel
foreign protein
foreign protein therapy
foreign serum
foreign terrorist organization
foreign tongue
foreign tongues
foreigner
foreigners
foreignise
foreignism
foreignisms
foreignize
foreignized

Literary usage of Foreign policy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Contemporary Review (1898)
"THE economic significance of our recent foreign policy has not received the close attention it deserves. Posing as champions of " open markets," we appear ..."

2. United Arab Emirates: A New Perspective by Ibrahim Abed, Peter Hellyer (2001)
"In this general sense, UAE foreign policy is similar to that of other countries. There are, however, two factors that distinguish UAE foreign policy, ..."

3. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1921)
"Power of President to Determine foreign policy. It is believed that resolutions expressing general policies or principles on most subjects connected with ..."

4. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1909)
"It was her individual will which prompted and determined her foreign policy ; though it must of course be borne in mind that ..."

5. The Life of Benjamin Disraeli: Earl of Beaconsfield by William Flavelle Monypenny, George Earle Buckle (1916)
"... CHAPTER IX RUSSELL'S foreign policy 1860-1864 While Disraeli demanded public economy at home, he consistently deprecated a policy of adventure abroad. ..."

6. The American Political Science Review (1922)
"BRITISH foreign policy AND THE DOMINIONS ALFRED LP DENNIS Important changes in the direction and conduct of British foreign policy have been taking place ..."

7. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1835)
"foreign policy. " THE English people," says Coleridge, " are at present like a person who is so sensitively alive to pain in some morbid part of the body, ..."

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