The role of economic variables in the making and implementation of foreign policy: a theoretical study

Abstract

Foreign policy makers are aware that they are bound by many influential variables in the process of foreign policy making and the means of implementation. This realization results in a strict commitment to the development of these variables in the exercise of foreign policy objectives. Of  course a meaningful and planned movement. Among these variables are the various economic variables that have been transformed since the changes and developments of the international system and international relations at the end of the twentieth century constitute one of the most important and the most serious determinants and opportunities for decision-makers in the performance of their duties in foreign policy. Where no foreign policy aimed at success and efficiency is able to ignore the role of these variables، but instead and in recognition of its role at the internal level within the communities، decision makers employed other foreign policy tools to contribute to the completion of economic tasks in a method similar to the method of means of the ends It works double when it becomes a means to achieve an end in itself because of its importance in achieving goals to a certain end later. In other words، the variables of the economy in relation to foreign policy have led to a dual function. On the one hand، it is a very important factor in pushing foreign policy decision makers to commit themselves to pursuing them. On the other hand، it is a means employed in implementing foreign policy and achieving its objectives. And its crucial function in foreign policy.