The UK should give more priority to helping the poorest countries collect their taxes as part of its foreign aid strategy, MPs have suggested.
Neither interventionism nor isolationism is an effective foreign policy strategy.
They set the broad parameters of Iranian foreign policy and strategy, leaving the president with a limited ability to maneuver in determining the country's international relations.
For better or worse, the Israelis will have to do both, and the U.S. can play a constructive role if it begins to view foreign policy as strategy rather than, in Michael Mandelbaum's words, social work.
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Bart Melek, vice president and director head of commodity strategy, rates and foreign exchange research at TD Securities, said that change in strategy by the Fed to outright purchases is supportive to gold.
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So as long as the LDP retains its majority in parliament, there should be no major changes in economic strategy or foreign policy.
But an energy strategy that focuses only on drilling and not on an energy strategy that will free ourselves from our dependence on foreign oil, that's a losing strategy.
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Although the notion of a currency-hedged equity strategy may be foreign to some ETF investors, it has certainly been one of the most popular strategies in the ETF industry since November.
President Obama has made promoting gender equality and advancing the status of women and girls central to our foreign policy and national security strategy, including by leading by example at home.
Bart Melek, vice president and director, head of commodity strategy, rates and foreign exchange research at TD Securities, said just chatter from Iran and Israel could push the risk premium on crude higher.
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Often, traders have tended to take positions ahead of Fed releases or appearances in which market participants have factored in a greater likelihood of more QE, pointed out Bart Melek, director of commodity strategy, rates and foreign-exchange research for TD Securities.
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This report, based on close analysis of the insurgents' own discourse, reveals relatively few groups, less divided between nationalists and foreign jihadis than assumed, whose strategy and tactics have evolved (in response to U.S. actions and to maximise acceptance by Sunni Arabs), and whose confidence in defeating the occupation is rising.
All of this is supportive for gold prices, and it may prompt people to buy the yellow metal as an inflation hedge as worries that the current high oil prices will last into the summer, said Bart Melek, vice president and director, head of commodity strategy, rates and foreign exchange research and TD Securities.
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In recent years, however, the IRS has made the monitoring foreign accounts part of their targeted enforcement strategy.
Today, by contrast, individual countries may pass laws like the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act but the overarching strategy that drives anticorruption must be multi-national in the truest sense.
Mr Cardoso's strategy was thus to use foreign capital, attracted partly by privatisation, to buy time while he tackled the public sector, something which his officials always insisted could be done only gradually.
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Yet even as Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov hailed their joint strategy as evidence of enhanced U.S.-Russian cooperation, it was unclear how their plan might work toward ending a war that has become even more dangerous in recent months with accusations the Assad regime has used chemical weapons, Israeli airstrikes on weapons convoys and American threats to begin arming the rebels.
The lesson: Local market sanctuaries cannot keep off foreign companies with superb products and the right strategy.
But the truth is, drilling alone is not a real strategy to replace our dependence on foreign oil.
The good news for Republicans is that Romney sagely chose to ignore the campaign grand strategy of his self-appointed foreign policy brain trust.
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As the Obama administration establishes its foreign policy, it must grapple with a strategy for U.S. relations with Iran, which has continued a controversial nuclear program and launched a satellite into orbit this week.
William O'Donnell, head of U.S. Treasury strategy at RBS, said that foreign central banks have abruptly pared down the amount of Treasurys they are parking with the Fed for safe keeping in recent weeks.
Meanwhile, Gary Bauer, on leave from the Family Research Council, disapproves of the administration's Balkan strategy but, in proposing a foreign policy that supports human rights and the banning of abortion, is anxious not to be seen as a Buchanan-style isolationist.
"I believe it is in our national interest to have an energy plan -- to have a strategy to get us less dependent on foreign sources of crude oil, " he said.
And since Schiff sees the dollar continuing to wilt, foreign debt is more than a wise short-term strategy.
Simply holding foreign currencies or foreign bonds or something is probably not too good a strategy.
Almost every foreign company operates on what he describes as a 5X5 strategy: five-fold increase in sales in five years.
In view of all this, Alpha needs to lay out a strategy to streamline its operations to cater to foreign markets.
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The Afghan president, his aides and foreign diplomats say, was fundamentally opposed to the counterinsurgency strategy that pushed American troops deep into remote, arch-conservative Afghan countryside.
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