Certainly the U.S. fits that description, The Bush administration reversed the Clinton approach while making regime change a central foreign policy tenet.
Mr Cameron is, however, ineluctably wedded to one foreign-policy tenet: Euroscepticism.Senior members of his team merrily aver that theirs will be the most Eurosceptic administration since that term had any currency.
Yet control — over the message, who delivers it, who originates it — is still a cherished tenet of foreign policy.
WASHINGTON — A fundamental tenet of foreign policy says that nations will seldom voluntarily act against what they have determined, for whatever reason, to be their own national interest.
So in the Élysée Palace, the need to harness the active, concrete support of fellow EU member states against Isis in Syria has now become a central tenet of foreign policy strategy.
It also goes to reinforce another tenet of foreign policy that can often be forgotten in 'this town': sometimes our best economic statecraft doesn't come from Washington.
"I think it's going to be a smooth change, and the main tenets of our foreign policy will remain very much the same," he said.
One of the tenets of Russian foreign policy is to weaken the EU, the better to deal with its member states one by one.
On the eve of taking office, Trump is out of sync with both the long-standing tenets of American foreign policy and his predecessors, Republican and Democratic alike, who carefully distinguished between a belief in God and bloodthirsty violence.
And, in a way, it represents the biggest own goal of all, because it fatally undermines one of the fundamental tenets of US foreign policy, namely that governance of the internet is best left in American hands.
The Iraqi government has seemingly moved closer to the central tenet of his foreign policy.
