ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the role of the state in international relations, explores power and also explains why nothing is more basic to an understanding of international relations. It provides the foreign policy and discusses several issues that policymakers must heed when forming foreign policy. The chapter examines the several ideologies that have been prevalent since World War II. It summarizes the role of the US Congress and president in conducting foreign policy. The chapter also discusses international political relations in the age of Trump. It argues that technology is changing the way foreign policy works, and the implications for stability and order of the world politics. In practice, however, their sovereignty is limited by economic and political realities. Possession of any of these attributes tends to augment the power of an individual nation and thus increase its ability to realize its political, social, economic, and military goals.
