Foreign policy of the United States

For bilateral relations, see Foreign relations of the United States.
"U.S. Foreign Policy" redirects here; not to be confused with U.S. Foreign Policy (book).

According to its 2025 National Security Strategy, the officially stated goals of the foreign policy of the United States of America are to ensure US preeminence in the Western Hemisphere, to "halt and reverse the ongoing damage that foreign actors inflict on the American economy while keeping the Indo-Pacific free and open", to "prevent an adversarial power from dominating the Middle East", and that "U.S. technology and U.S. standard" are preeminent.

Liberalism has been a key component of US foreign policy since its independence from Britain. Since the end of World War II, the United States has had a grand strategy which has been characterized as being oriented around primacy, "deep engagement", and/or liberal hegemony. This strategy entails that the United States maintains military predominance; builds and maintains an extensive network of allies (exemplified by NATO, bilateral alliances and foreign US military bases); integrates other states into US-designed international institutions (such as the IMF, WTO/GATT, and World Bank); and limits the spread of nuclear weapons.

The United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs states as some of its jurisdictional goals: "export controls, including nonproliferation of nuclear technology and nuclear hardware; measures to foster commercial interaction with foreign nations and to safeguard American business abroad; international commodity agreements; international education; protection of American citizens abroad; and expulsion". U.S. foreign policy and foreign aid have been the subject of much debate and criticism, both domestically and abroad.

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