The strategy or approach chosen by the national government to achieve its goals in its relations with external entities

A set of actions or rules governing the actions of an independent political authority deployed in the international environment

The totality of a country’s policies toward and interactions with the environment beyond its borders

The sum of decisions made on behalf of a given political unit (usually a state) entailing the implementation of goals with direct reference to its external environment

Foreign policy is seen usually as the quintessential ‘boundary’ activity, at the interface between the domestic and the external spheres