But these sound-bites had the failing of all foreign policy designed to fit into a headline.
De Gaulle could now embark on an assertive foreign policy, designed to restore what he called France's grandeur; he could indulge in such luxuries as blocking Britain's entry into the Common Market, ejecting North Atlantic Treaty Organization NATOO) forces from France, lecturing the Americans on their involvement in Vietnam, and traveling to Canada to call for a "free Quebec".
The Netherlands and Switzerland gained uncontested sovereignty, the German states of the Holy Roman Empire accrued the right to ally outside the empire, while both the diplomatic communications and foreign policy designs of contemporary great powers revealed a common understanding of a system of sovereign states.
The incorrect assumption is that this is a new phase of Xi's more assertive global foreign policy designed to challenge the U.S.-led international economic order.
This is not to say that all foreign aid is intrinsically bad by nature, only that in the context of foreign policies designed to defeat popular aspirations, the use of foreign aid overall has served the same interests that the wars have, of seeking to defeat popular aspirations.
That is what our foreign policy is designed to do.
His foreign policy was designed to drive the Austrians from Italy and to safeguard Spanish trade with its American colonies.
He reassures Americans that every decision he makes in the White House, including his willingness to blow off former allies opposed to his go-it-alone foreign policy, is "designed solely to increase their security and guarantee their well-being".
A foreign policy is designed from the options that are available.
Many Americans still believe that US foreign policies are designed to maintain peace, to safeguard human rights and to spread democracy around the world.
