The centrality of foreign policy in a state's international relations cannot be overemphasized.
Every state has a set of goals or objectives which it sets out to promote vis-à-vis other
members of the international system. It is through foreign policy that a nation will state its
interests as well as terms and conditions of relations with other states. A state announces its
foreign policy principles or goals to the rest of the world to provide a prism through which
other states in the international system can establish a link with it and read its mind (Sesay …