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Folke Bernadotte
Folke Bernadotte, Swedish count and Red Cross vice president, led the 1945 White Buses rescue of over 15,000 camp prisoners and became the UN's first mediator in Palestine, assassinated by Lehi in Jerusalem on 17 September 1948.
Folketing
Folketing (Folketinget), the unicameral parliament of Denmark since 1953, with 179 seats (175 Denmark, 2 Faroe Islands, 2 Greenland), formerly the lower chamber of the Rigsdagen created by the 1849 constitution.
Fomboni Agreement
The Fomboni Agreement, formally the General Agreement on National Reconciliation, was signed on 17 February 2001 in Fomboni, Mohéli, ending the Comorian secessionist crisis and leading to the Union of the Comoros constitution adopted that December.
Food and Drug Administration
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is the United States federal agency charged with safeguarding public health, overseeing medications, medical devices, biologics, food, cosmetics, and tobacco products.
For a European Future
For a European Future is a center-left, pro-European electoral coalition led by the Social Democratic Union of Macedonia, with 14 parties in the 2024 North Macedonian parliamentary election.
For Our Macedonia (За Наша Македонија)
ZNAM (За Наша Македонија), For Our Macedonia, is a North Macedonian political party founded by Kumanovo mayor Maksim Dimitrievski as an SDSM splinter; statute adopted 9 November 2023, six parliamentary seats in 2024, governing coalition partner of VMRO-DPMNE and VLEN since July 2024.
For the Freedom of Nations! (За свободу народов!)
For the Freedom of Nations! (Russian: За свободу народов!) is an international inter-party movement initiated by United Russia in 2024, uniting parties from more than 50 countries.
For the People Act
The For the People Act (H.R. 1, S. 1) is a US democracy reform bill covering voting access, campaign finance, and ethics; it passed the House in 2019 and 2021 but failed in the Senate and was not reintroduced in the 119th Congress.
Fora Collor
Fora Collor, "Out with Collor," was the 1992 Brazilian protest movement in which students, the caras-pintadas, demanded President Fernando Collor de Mello's impeachment over corruption.
Foraker Act
The Foraker Act, formally the Organic Act of 1900, was a U.S. federal law signed in April 1900 that replaced military rule in Puerto Rico with a civilian government.
Forbes Burnham
Forbes Burnham, born Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham, was a Guyanese lawyer and politician who led Guyana to independence in 1966 and ruled it until his death in 1985.
Ford to City: Drop Dead
"Ford to City: Drop Dead" is the New York Daily News front page of October 30, 1975, paraphrasing President Gerald Ford's refusal of a federal bailout of near-bankrupt New York City; he never said the words, and the headline is linked to his 1976 loss of New York State.
Foreign Affairs
Foreign Affairs: American bimonthly journal of international relations published by the Council on Foreign Relations since September 15, 1922; origin of George Kennan's 1947 X Article; rated Center/Least Biased.
Foreign agent laws and the repression of civil society
Foreign agent laws: registration statutes for those acting for foreign principals. FARA (US, 1938) is a disclosure regime; Russia's 2012 law and copies in Georgia, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Hungary repress civil society.
Foreign electoral intervention
Foreign electoral intervention is action by foreign governments or proxies to shape another country's elections, split into influence (swaying voters, parties) and interference (disrupting administration). Documented in 30% of 2024's 63 national elections; 81 US cases 1946-2000; 27 Russian cases since 1991.
Foreign policy
Foreign policy: how states pursue national interests abroad. Covers political, economic, and military tools, economic statecraft, sanctions limits, domestic decision-making, and current strategy documents from US and UK practice.
Foreign Policy
Foreign Policy (FP) is an American global affairs magazine founded in 1970 by Samuel Huntington and Warren Manshel, now published by the FP Group under Graham Holdings, distinct from Foreign Affairs and the Foreign Policy Analysis journal.
Foreign policy of the Narendra Modi government
Foreign policy of the Narendra Modi government, 2014 to present: Neighbourhood First, Act East, multialignment; assertive Pakistan policy (Uri 2016, Balakot 2019), post-Galwan China stance, G20 presidency, and the continuity-versus-change scholarly debate.
Foreign policy of the Ronald Reagan administration
Reagan administration foreign policy (1981–1989), also called the Reagan Doctrine: anti-détente Cold War strategy with a 35% defense buildup, SDI, aid to Contras and Afghan mujahideen, and the 1987 INF Treaty with Gorbachev.
Foreign policy of the second Trump administration
Foreign policy of the second Trump administration: Donald Trump's America First external policy since January 20, 2025, marked by record executive orders, WHO and Paris withdrawals, the 2025 National Security Strategy's Trump Corollary, NATO 5 percent spending demands, Gaza diplomacy, Caribbean military strikes, and the 2026 Russia sanctions waiver and diesel deal.
Foreign policy of the United States
Foreign policy of the United States: how the U.S. conducts relations with other nations. Also called American diplomacy. President sets policy, State Department executes; tools include alliances, aid, sanctions (9,400+ designations by 2021).
Foreign relations of Afghanistan
Foreign relations of Afghanistan: the Islamic Emirate's diplomacy since the Taliban's 2021 return. Russia alone formally recognizes the government; the UN seat is withheld; Pakistan conflict, China, Iran, Central Asia, India, and Western engagement shape ties.
Foreign relations of Canada
Foreign relations of Canada: diplomacy, trade, security, and development managed by Global Affairs Canada. Middle-power multilateralism, US tariff tensions, Arctic foreign policy (2024), and diversification toward China, India, and the EU.
Foreign relations of Cuba
Foreign relations of Cuba: the island's diplomacy since 1959, marked by a U.S. embargo, Soviet alliance, Cold War military missions in Angola and Ethiopia, medical diplomacy in 70+ countries, ALBA/CELAC leadership, and the 2014-2015 thaw.
Foreign relations of Egypt
Foreign relations of Egypt: diplomacy of the Arab world's most populous state. Covers Nasser's nonalignment, Sadat's 1979 Israeli peace, US aid exceeding $80 billion, EU trade ties, the GERD dispute, and Gulf financing.
Foreign relations of Finland
Foreign relations of Finland: diplomacy and security policy led by the president with the government; EU member since 1995, NATO's 31st member since April 2023, with a 1,340-km Russian border, a US Defense Cooperation Agreement, and strong support for Ukraine.
Foreign relations of France
Foreign relations of France: Gaullist great-power diplomacy via the EU, NATO, francophonie and an independent nuclear deterrent; 162 embassies (third globally), presidential domaine réservé, €5.5bn ministry budget, 2025 defence buildup.
Foreign relations of Germany
Foreign relations of Germany: diplomacy of the Federal Republic through the EU, NATO, UN, G7, and G20; "never again, never alone" tradition; reunification 1990; Zeitenwende 2022 with a €100 billion fund and Ukraine support under Scholz and Merz.
Foreign relations of India
Foreign relations of India: New Delhi's diplomacy since 1947, from Nehruvian non-alignment and the 1971 Soviet treaty to post-Cold War US ties, multi-alignment under Modi, strategic autonomy, and current US tariff strains.
Foreign relations of Indonesia
The foreign relations of Indonesia follow the bebas aktif doctrine of independent, active non-alignment, anchored in ASEAN leadership and balancing between the United States and China.