How should a nation-state develop its foreign policy in accordance to its values and in connection to the development of its domestic policy?

Well first of all lets break this question down. A nation state is a state inside a nation which can both have their own policies abide by both but the nation has a more powerful say. For the nation state to develop its foreign policy it needs to look at both the nation and states individual policies because both have a say in what is happening. However a country that wants to make some sort of trade and agreement among other countries need to look at their policies and respect the policies of the other country when coming to an agreement.




Now what I have to say about our nation-state in dealing with foreign policy and our domestic policy is.....we suck. We have pushed our way in and try to control the other country thinking that we know whats best, but really we don't. Our Nation-state does not allow other countries to push their way in and get what ever they want from us, so why should other countries allow us to walk all over them. I think our Nation-state has a lot to work on in trading and keeping us safe.

Critical question: Do you think we have have more allies if we didn't take advantage of every country we could get into?