Strengthening the rules-based international system is one of the Foreign Office's new overarching foreign policy themes, but this cannot be just about standards we demand of other states.
His next book, Willem IV en Engeland tot 1748 19244), discussed the struggle between the party of Orange and the republican States Party and its effects on the Dutch Republic's foreign policy, themes that were to become dominant in many of his later works.
Because Romney's one great foreign-policy theme, once he had conceded many of the specifics to the President, was the need, as he said, "to project leadership around the world," he spoke of a number of domestic issues in terms of how they looked to others when "Ahmadinejad, says that our debt makes us not a great country, that's a frightening thing"—rather than how they were lived by Americans.
Instrumentally, South Africa can cultivate a foreign policy motive theme around Global Health in general and AIDS specifically to regain some of the soft power and credibility that the country has lost due to the Mbeki administration's AIDS denialism.
Globalisation, health and foreign policy are themes that the Nuffield Trust has been analysing for a number of years, in association with its international partners.
In the search for a niche and for improved agency for South African foreign policy, interesting themes emerge or are confirmed: "innovative" diplomacy, "transnational issue networks," and "multilateralism" are clear; so too is an emphasis on the pursuit of issue diplomacy as a strategy available to emerging middle powers.
Obama began with foreign policy, but his theme was broader than any single issue; it amounted to the unembarrassed assertion that he is the only candidate willing to be wholly honest with voters.
The Rev. Al Sharpton has not made foreign policy a central theme of his run, but last summer he noted that "there are many places that we have people that are despicable that I would like to see out of power," but asked "how do we then justify going at one person rather than others?" Neither was interviewed because polls have them trailing badly.
The idea that a budget wonk doesn't have to concern himself with foreign policy is a theme that Ryan seems willing to good-naturedly embrace.
