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FOREIGN POLICY

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A policy governing international relations

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("foreign policy" is a kind of...):

policy (a line of argument rationalizing the course of action of a government)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "foreign policy"):

brinkmanship (the policy of pushing a dangerous situation to the brink of disaster (to the limits of safety))

imperialism (a policy of extending your rule over foreign countries)

interference; intervention (a policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries)

noninterference; nonintervention (a foreign policy of staying out of other countries' disputes)

nonaggression (a policy of not initiating hostilities)

isolationism (a policy of nonparticipation in international economic and political relations)

Monroe Doctrine (an American foreign policy opposing interference in the western hemisphere from outside powers)

Truman doctrine (President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology)

neutralism (a policy of neutrality or nonalignment in international affairs)

regionalism (a foreign policy that defines the international interests of a country in terms of particular geographic areas)

national trading policy; trade policy (a government's policy controlling foreign trade)

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