Question

Critically analyse the role of external factors in framing the foreign policy of the country.

Answer 1

Answer:

Religion: religion plays an important role. A country which belongs to whatever religion will make a hectic effort to establish a cordial relationship with a country having a similar religion, culture, and way of life.

Geography: a country geography plays its vital role in the foreign policy of any country. Good relation with neighbor assure peace and stability while bad relation creates anarchy which leads the country toward destabilization.

Political instability. the politically stable country has always a good relation with other countries depending upon its need while that country where internal politics is not mature often involve in power tussle and political wrangling, ignoring the prime objective of its foreign policy which is the national interest. The state institutions and political parties often sacrifice national interest for the interest of specific group or parties, as a result, a country fails to establish a cordial and amicable relationship with the outside world.

Economic compulsion: each and every country try to establish foreign relation in order to achieve economic stability. The poor countries always in search of better relation with those of the advance countries only because to gain some aid in the form of cash or goods while the advance countries looking for its market in order to increase its sale and capturing foreign markets. One of the main reason of this is to avoid from any deficit in BOP and to improve BOT.