J. K. Paasikivi, the President of Finland, was remembered as a main architect of Finland's foreign policy with the Soviet Union after the Second World War.^[1] From left to right: Paasikivi and chairman of the Supreme Soviet Kliment Voroshilov in Moscow.

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A state's foreign policy is its objectives and activities in relation to its interactions with other states, whether bilaterally or through multilateral platforms.^[2] The Encyclopedia Britannica notes that a country's foreign policy may be influenced by "domestic considerations, the policies or behaviour of other states, or plans to advance specific geopolitical designs."^[2]

See also

• Alliance
• Balance of power (international relations)
• Diplomacy
• Diplomatic history
• Foreign policy analysis
• Intergovernmental organization
• International relations theory
• International relations

Notes and references

Further reading

• Christopher Hill, The Changing Politics of Foreign Policy, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
• Jean-Frédéric Morin and Jonathan Paquin, Foreign Policy Analysis: A Toolbox, Palgrave, 2018.
• Steve Smith, Amelia Hadley and Tim Dunne (eds), Foreign Policy: Theories, Actors, Cases, 1st ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
• Frank A. Stengel and Rainer Baumann, "Non-State Actors and Foreign Policy," The Oxford Encyclopedia of Foreign Policy Analysis, edited by Cameron Thies, 266-86. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.456.
• The definition of foreign policy, according to the Encyclopædia Britannica, here in the video

External links

• Media related to Foreign policy at Wikimedia Commons