Foreign Policy : Heart of international relations

Last July 12,2010 I have learned that the constitution, history, institutions and interest groups are the factors that makes us understand a foreign policy of a country because these factors are the basis of forming foreign policies. There are four steps to draft a foreign policy, first is the decision making where the goals must be set, meetings and consultation with stakeholders and collection of foreign data take place. Second is the implementation of the policy after is the results and consequences which determines the situation if the policy was effective or not and last is evaluate, where the foreign policy can be adjusted or revised. This process is continuous for after evaluating, the policy will again, undergo decision making and so forth. There are three types of timeline of foreign policy, immediate which means now, midterm that is for three years and long term that is good for six years. After the discussion was the group activity of drafting a foreign policy though it did not take too long because we had an early dismissal because the air con was not working properly.