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Foreign Policy

Foreign Policy

Foreign policy is the policy a nation sets forth in conducting its external relations. The strategies are usually focused on safeguarding national interests. Creating foreign policy is usually the job between the President and Secretary of State.

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About Foreign Policy

Foreign policy can be conducted in many ways; however there are two main routes: by peaceful cooperation or exploitation of a stronger nation over a weaker nation. An example of peaceful foreign policy is Canada and the US. Canada has supported the US Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and bailed out US auto industries. The US and Canada create millions of jobs with trade between the two nations.

An example of coercive foreign policy is the current situation towards North Korea. North Korea has tested their ability to launch nuclear weapons, to which South Korea and Japan have feared. The US, in turn, has sanctioned the North Koreans and condemned their actions. The goal of the sanctions is to bankrupt the nation's economy, causing internal upheaval to change the current government or forcing the government to abandon it's nuclear ambitions.

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(From L) Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Audronius Azubalis and US political scientist Robert Nurick speak on January 12, 2012 in Trakai, during the 5th traditional informal Snow Meeting of experts in international affairs and security policy from European and North American countries focused on Nordic-Baltic cooperation.

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton at the Bella Centre in Copenhagen on January 11, 2012. The European Commission kicks off a two-day visit to Denmark to mark the Scandinavian country's EU presidency, with an opening ceremony scheduled to start at 1730 GMT.

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton speaks on January 11, 2012 during her visit to the Danish Europe Committee and the Foreign Policy Committee at the Danish Parliament in Copenhagen. As it takes the reins of the EU presidency, Denmark finds itself torn between its refusal to adopt the euro, its doggedness to keep close ties to the single currency and its aim to avoid a two-speed Europe. The Scandinavian country of 5.5 million people is thus in sharp contrast to Britain, the only other European Union member to have negotiated an exemption on the single currency.

Baroness Catherine Ashton (3rd L), the EU's High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, arrives for a visit to the Danish Europe Committee and the Foreign Policy Committee in the Danish Parliament, Christiansborg, on January 11, 2012 The European Commission kicks off a two-day visit to Denmark to mark the Scandinavian country's EU presidency, with an opening ceremony scheduled to start at 1730 GMT. Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt and EU Commission head Jose Manuel Barroso will hold a press conference on Thursday.

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