Foreign policy is a move from domestic politics to international politics and is also called inside-out approach. Ethiopia's foreign policy adopted from the inside-out perspective is how international system and domestic politics are influenced and shape foreign policy perspectives.
This purports that domestic politics should serve as bed-rock to foreign policy and vice versa. In other words, the international system is understood from the perspective of domestic politics and policies. Policy makers define national interest in light of the country's context, which means the definition of the national interest, takes what the country 'has' and 'does not have' into serious account. Foreign policies should serve in filling that gap; what the country 'does not have.'
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