A country's foreign policy, also called the foreign relations policy, consists of self-interest strategies chosen by the state to safeguard its national interests and to achieve its goals within international relations milieu.[citation needed] The approaches are strategically employed to interact with other countries. In recent times, due to the deepening level of globalization and transnational activities, the states will also have to interact with non-state actors. The aforementioned interaction is evaluated and monitored in attempts to maximize benefits of multilateral international cooperation. Since the national interests are paramount, foreign policies are designed by the government through high-level decision making processes. National interests accomplishment can occur as a result of peaceful cooperation with other nations, or through exploitation. Usually, creating foreign policy is the job of the head of government and the foreign minister (or equivalent). In some countries the legislature also has considerable oversight.
Ian Bremmer (born November 12, 1969) is an American political scientist specializing in US foreign policy, states in transition, and global political risk. He is the president and founder of Eurasia Group, a leading global political risk research and consulting firm, and a professor at Columbia University. Eurasia Group provides financial, corporate, and government clients with information and insight on how political developments move markets. Bremmer is of Armenian and German descent.
Bremmer has authored/published eight books, including the national bestsellers Every Nation for Itself: Winners and Losers in a G-Zero World (Portfolio, May 2012), which details risks and opportunities in a world without global leadership, and The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations (Portfolio, May 2010), which describes the global phenomenon of state capitalism and its implications for economics and politics. He also wrote The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall (Simon & Schuster, 2006), selected by The Economist as one of the best books of 2006.
Wrote down what I was told when you were running out
you said we're strong enough
we're bulletproof but love's not a thing you control
it's not sustainable we're all available to anyone
why did you have to go on such a beautiful morning
your foreign policy
mean nothing now
why did you have to go on such a beautiful morning
your foreign policy will drag us down
well I love free market but I hate labour mobility
cos all my abilities are not enough
to sell anything that sells where you were running to
well you're not bulletproof and I'm like you
so why did you have to go on such a beautiful morning
your foreign policy mean nothing now
why did you have to go on such a beautiful morning
your foreign policy will drag us down
why did you have to go on such a beautiful morning
your foreign policy will kill us all
why did you have to go on such a beautiful morning
my foreign policy is to bring you home
Dormant & still
Lying cold & slow
Unmoving currents
Lurking below, lurking below
Hate fills your eyes
Strike with shock & fear
Kremlin awaits us
The eastern borders leer
Awaken now the nation
Lightning violence flies
Striking down the imposters
Ending political disguise
Let sleeping dogs lie
Shadows come a creeping
Shattered family,
Mother weeping
Shallow graves,
Rotting reeking
Scent of death
Warm & good!
That's my foreign policy!
Dormant & still
Lying slow & cold
Unmoving currents
Lurking below
Seething in pain
Contorting fast then slow
Twitching you bleed
Your blood staining the snow
Falling now the enemy
Explosions fill the sky
Crippling deceit
Ending sickening lie
See through blood stained
Eyes!
How many rivers of blood must spill?
How many more people killed?
I'm tired of hearing about politics
I want to know when the killing will end
Senseless killing for corporate profit that's their foreign policy
Vile old men in a pentagon office
Looking at the world through blood-stained glasses
Lining their pockets with human flesh
But all their money stinks of death
Senseless killing for corporate profit that's their foreign policy
These criminals are unknown
You never hear their names
They sit in their offices
Playing multinational murder games
It's worse than you can imagine
Millions have already died
But there are no laws in this game
And no one pays for their crimes
Endorsing apartheid in South Africa
Pumping money into the hateful system
As the CIA are playing chess games in Central America
Instigating revolution and then counter-revolution
Well it's as if they had any right