Challenges

Challenges

Describe the domestic challenges that affect foreign policymaking and what you feel are the two most effective tools (Political, Socio-Cultural, Economic or Military) a nation state has to achieve its objectives.

The problem of the relationship and interaction of domestic and foreign policy - one of the most difficult problems, which has been and continues to be the subject of heated debate between various theoretical areas of international political science - traditionalism, political idealism, Marxism - and their modern varieties such as neo-realism and neo-Marxism, dependence and interdependence theory, structuralism and transnationalism. Each of these comes in the treatment of the problem of their own ideas about the sources and drivers of policy. So, for example, supporters of political realism foreign and domestic policy, although they are a single entity - which, in their view, ultimately comes down to a struggle for power - yet are fundamentally different spheres of public activity. The conviction of Hans Morgenthau, many theoretical concepts which are still popular today, foreign policy is determined by the national interest. National interests are objective; they are connected to the same human nature, geography, socio-cultural and historical traditions of the people. They have two components: one constant - is imperative to survive, an immutable law of nature, another variable, which is a specific form that these interests are taken in time and space (Viotti, Kauppi, 2009). The definition of this form of state-owned has a monopoly on communication with the outside world. Basis of the same national interest, reflecting the language of the people, its culture, and the natural conditions of existence, etc., remain constant. Therefore, the internal factors of the country (political regime, public opinion, etc.), which can and do change depending on various circumstances, are not considered realistic as affecting the nature of the national interest: in particular, ...