That effort was required because even if this was fundamentally a trade bill, where most of the votes depended on jobs gained for Florida fertilizer mills or lost to textile plants in North Carolina, it also carried the baggage of a foreign policy measure about a Chinese government that no one in Congress will defend.
That is, they vote their districts if their constituents have an interest, and a trade bill is a singular foreign policy measure because the question of jobs gained and lost commands attention from lawmakers and constituents ordinarily not much concerned about the rest of the world.
He also was critical of numerous foreign-policy measures that related to the conduct of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and he voted against laws that increased the police powers of the government.
According to Alliance's own summary of their paper, it was arguing for the removal of "Foreign government policy measures favouring state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and state-supported enterprises (SSEs)".
She's even got extremely solid foreign policy credentials (as measured by Republican voters).
In principle, policies governing the international movement of labour could also be considered instances of economic statecraft if they are intended to promote foreign policy goals, but such measures are not usually included under the rubric of economic statecraft and are not considered here.
When we present Americans with their scores from the standard questions political scientists use to measure foreign policy attitudes, many of our isolationists dispute the results, taking pains to protest that they are, as one participant put it, "in no way, shape or form an isolationist".
So the action plans aim to draw up a list of problems for each target country, whether they be related to the political institutions, human rights, the economy or the government, and propose an integrated approach to the countries of the Union and to third countries, combining development aid, legal measures or foreign policy actions.
Many from this brigade would rather blame "overzealous policing, disproportionate counterterrorism measures and a foreign policy that has led to thousands of deaths" for Islamist extremism rather than acknowledge the role of ideology.
Secondly, the government is now thinking that the reason why some individuals may carry out violence is not because of overzealous policing, disproportionate counterterrorism measures and a foreign policy that has led to thousands of deaths, including British service personnel, but is somehow caused by the mental condition of British Muslims.
