foreign policy

foreign policy

English

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.

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 Chinese: Mandarin: 外交政策 (wàijiāo zhèngcè) Danish: udenrigspolitik c Finnish: ulkopolitiikka (fi) French: politique extérieure f Galician: política exterior f Georgian: საგარეო პოლიტიკა (sagareo ṗoliṭiḳa) German: Außenpolitik (de) f Hungarian: külpolitika (hu)1 Irish: polasaí eachtrach Japanese: 外交 (ja) (がいこう, gaikō) Korean: 외교 (ko) (oegyo) Norwegian: Bokmål: utenrikspolitikk m Portuguese: política estrangeira f Romanian: politică externă (ro) f Russian: вне́шняя поли́тика (ru) f (vnéšnjaja polítika) Spanish: política exterior Swahili: sera za kigeni (sw) Swedish: utrikespolitik (sv) c Turkish: dış politika (tr), dış siyaset Ukrainian: зо́внішня полі́тика f (zóvnišnja polítyka)

sum of a government's dealings

Arabic: سياسة خارجية‎ f Chinese: Mandarin: 外交政策 (wàijiāo zhèngcè) Danish: udenrigspolitik 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

See also

• Foreign Office