Foreign policy aims to lose any conciliatory face: "Peace makes your species weak.
At the same time, it pursued a foreign policy aimed at challenging the U.S.-led alliance in the western Pacific Ocean.
For Qatari officials, their intervention in Libya is not a break but a logical continuation of an active foreign policy aimed at pushing for regional modernization.
His foreign policy aimed at dominating the Russian trade routes toward the Kola Peninsula and the White Sea and at grasping as much as possible of the territory (Russian and other) south of the Gulf of Finland.
When Mr. Erdogan's Justice and Development Party was elected in 2002, it developed a foreign policy aimed at realigning the country's role in a highly volatile region consisting of the Caucasus and the Middle East.
For most of the past 20 years, Kiev's foreign policy aimed, and largely managed, to fix on Europe's geopolitical map the first meaning rather than the second.
His assertive foreign policy, aimed at supporting the Islamist parties that emerged in the early Arab Spring, seemed to revive, for many Turks, the glory days of the Ottoman Empire.
His foreign policy aimed ultimately at a revision of the Treaty of Trianon (1920; which alienated territory from Hungary), but he realized the necessity of first gaining internal security and the right friends abroad.
As in the Soviet Union, China's new sports establishment was deliberately conceived as an instrument of nation-building, a tool of mass mobilization and even of foreign policy, aimed both at increasing the country's prestige and promoting feelings of integration among the people.
Turkey is looking after huge numbers of refugees, the economy is less healthy than it used to be and the strains of a contradictory foreign policy aimed at bringing down the Assad government in Damascus, without empowering Syria's Kurds, are beginning to tell.
