The phrase "a foreign policy practitioner" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to someone who actively engages in the formulation or implementation of foreign policy, typically in a governmental or diplomatic context.
Example: "As a foreign policy practitioner, she has worked on various international negotiations and agreements."
Alternatives: "a foreign affairs expert" or "a diplomatic professional".
"EU leaders must set aside their habitual politicking and summon the courage to appoint an experienced senior foreign policy practitioner," he told the EurActiv website on Monday.
First, the seniormost foreign policy practitioner amongst the bureaucrats, the Foreign Secretary (he retired later this week) Shiv Shankar Menon said at the height of the controversy in India that the joint statement was a case of "bad drafting".
But in order to ensure international engagements on health and foreign policy are truly a win-win, both foreign policy practitioners and global health proponents need to engage more substantially.
In the 1930s and 1940s, Roosevelt utilized a "good neighbor policy" -- conceptualized today as "soft power" by U.S. foreign policy practitioners -- to curry favor in Latin America and win over its public.
Those who believe that human rights is an essential tool in our foreign policy tool-box, we have a responsibility to help keep the LGBT rights issue on the agenda of foreign policy practitioners.
New non-state actors are emerging quite rapidly, reshaping the international landscape and forcing foreign policy practitioners to rebalance their focus so to accommodate new priorities, engage with civil society, and democratize the diplomatic process.
Zbigniew Brzezinski, Brent Scowcroft, and other very wise foreign policy practitioners from America's higher stakes Cold War past recommended to President Obama that he lay out his own parameters and vision for what the outlines of a final deal should look like.
Going forward, both global health and foreign policy practitioners would benefit from working more closely together to achieve greater mutual understanding and to advance respective mutual goals.
But if global health and foreign policy practitioners work together for greater mutual understanding and coordination, we can help to create conditions whereby all parties can benefit from the growing profile of GHD.
Likewise, global health experts could make greater efforts to understand and engage with foreign policy practitioners by keeping diplomatic leadership and embassy staff well informed of their activities and by clearly drawing the link between these activities and the broader policy objectives of foreign policy.
