foreign policy

English

Pronunciation

Always pronounced with syntactic stress on policy.

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Noun

foreign policy (countable and uncountable, plural foreign policies)

1. A government's policy relating to relations with other nations and international organisations.
   • 2013 June 7, Gary Younge, “Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 18:

     WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, […]. They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies.

   • 2024 December 12, Eric Cortellessa, “Donald Trump 2024 TIME Person of the Year”, in Time‎^[1], archived from the original on 22 December 2024:

     Willing to upend the nation’s postwar role as a bulwark against authoritarianism, he promises to usher in a foreign policy rooted in “America First” transactionalism.

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

   Bismarck's foreign policy.

Antonyms

• domestic policy

Related terms

• foreign affairs
• diplomacy

Translations

government's policy

• Arabic: سياسة خارجية f
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Azerbaijani: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 外交政策 (wàijiāo zhèngcè)

• Danish: udenrigspolitik (da) c
• Dutch: buitenlands beleid
• Finnish: ulkopolitiikka (fi)
• French: politique extérieure (fr) f
• Galician: política exterior f
• Georgian: საგარეო პოლიტიკა (sagareo ṗoliṭiḳa)
• German: Außenpolitik (de) f
• Hungarian: külpolitika (hu)1
• Indonesian: kebijakan luar negeri, politik luar negeri
• Irish: polasaí eachtrach
• Italian: politica estera f
• Japanese: 外交 (ja) (がいこう, gaikō)
• Korean: 외교 (ko) (oegyo)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: utenrikspolitikk m

  Nynorsk: utanrikspolitikk m

• Polish: polityka zewnętrzna f, polityka zagraniczna f
• Portuguese: política estrangeira f
• Romanian: politică externă (ro) f
• Russian: вне́шняя поли́тика (ru) f (vnéšnjaja polítika)
• Spanish: política exterior
• Swahili: sera ya kigeni
• Swedish: utrikespolitik (sv) c
• Tamil: வெளியுறவுக்கொள்கை (veḷiyuṟavukkoḷkai)
• Turkish: dış politika (tr), dış siyaset
• Ukrainian: зо́внішня полі́тика f (zóvnišnja polítyka)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

sum of a government's dealings

• Arabic: سياسة خارجية f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 外交政策 (wàijiāo zhèngcè)

• Danish: udenrigspolitik (da) c
• Finnish: ulkopolitiikka (fi)
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: вне́шняя поли́тика (ru) f (vnéšnjaja polítika)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Tamil: வெளியுறவுக்கொள்கை (veḷiyuṟavukkoḷkai)

See also

• Foreign Office