The components typically described as making up "foreign policy" in lectures and scholarly sources include:
- A set of principles, policies, and decisions adopted by a nation globally
- Objectives and goals of national interest to be achieved
- Broad principles and decisions for conducting international relations
- Assessment of achievements and losses relative to national goals
- Means or nature of actions taken to achieve these goals
- Strategies and tactics to influence behavior of other states
- Formulation and implementation of plans to regulate external relations
- Consideration of sovereignty, national interest, and international environment
These elements emphasize goals, plans, actions, and the relational aspect of foreign policy aimed at regulating or changing other states' behavior to serve national interests
. From the search results, aspects such as internal governance details, domestic policy unrelated to international relations, or purely economic policies without an international strategic component are not typically described as parts of foreign policy. For example, internal social policies or purely domestic economic management are generally excluded from foreign policy definitions. Therefore, if the question asks which element is not described in lecture as part of foreign policy, it would be something unrelated to international relations or external state behavior regulation, such as purely domestic policy issues or internal governance mechanisms without international implications. In summary, foreign policy is about a state's external goals, strategies, decisions, and actions in the international arena, not internal domestic policies unrelated to foreign relations
