Foreign Policy

Colombia and Its Trans-Pacific Foreign Policy —International Relations in the Pacific Rim

“…Later, when the objectives are drawn into the process of foreign policy establishment, the work is to determine the available options in terms of courses of action, and their possible pathway to achievement (Carlsnaes, 2013;Hudson, 2008). These alternatives can be chosen from a reduced approach-actions already tested from the state or extended combination of past and innovative actions of possibilities, which constitute an integral part of the process of analysis and planning of foreign policy (Carlsnaes, 2013).…”

“…Foreign policies consist of those actions which, expressed in the form of explicitly stated goals, commitments and/or directives, and pursued by governmental representatives acting on behalf of their sovereign communities, are directed toward objectives, conditions and actors-both governmental and non-governmentalwhich they want to affect and which lie beyond their territorial legitimacy (Carlsnaes, 2013).…”

“…It is a first order public policy, the more essential and prominent the greater influence and the hegemony of the state in the international affairs (Parker Gumucio, 2004). (Carlsnaes, 2013) offers this definition of "foreign policy":…”

“…At first, the analysis process of the foreign policy consists of identifying the main issues and opportunities faced by a country in the different areas in which its external relations occur (perception of different actors on the issue, emotional or political reasons, the multidimensional and extended view of the issue, quantification and qualification of both external and Internal context, the influence of interest groups on the definition of the subject) (Carlsnaes, 2013;Hudson, 2005;Hudson, 2008;Tomassini, 1988).…”

Value of Public Administration Management to International Relations: Scaffolding an Inter-Disciplinary Research Agenda

“…Second, it is overly focused on international economic policy as seen in (1)- (3); (7)-(10) with slight digression on to international social policy in (4)-(5). A reference to other Handbooks highlighted the importance of other International Policies: Economics (Martin, 2006) (Finance and Trade) (Cohen, 2002;Milner, 2002), Social (Development, Environment, Health, Human Rights) (Maxfield, 2002;Mitchell, 2002;Schmitz & Sikkink, 2002), Legal (International Law and Judiciary) (Raustiala & Slaughter, 2002), Political and Security (Higgott, 2006;Duffield, 2006) (Nuclear Non-Proliferation, Security Cooperation, Peace-making and Conflict Resolution) (Carlsnaes, 2002;Muller, 2002;Gilady & Russett, 2002); as well as other transnational actors such as International NGOs (Florini, 2006) and Regional Governmental Organizations (Choi & Caporaso, 2002) and their policies 13 .…”