Foreign Affairs

FOREIGN AFFAIRS & AMERICAN SOVEREIGNTY

POSITION

Peace through strength. Diplomacy before war. America before ideology. The United States will remain a sovereign constitutional republic.

WHY THIS MATTERS

Foreign policy should protect American citizens, territory, commerce, allies, and strategic interests without treating every international dispute as an American war or abandoning the world to aggressive authoritarian powers.

SOVEREIGNTY & CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY

MPA opposes transferring governing authority over Americans to a world government, international organization, foreign government, or international military authority outside the processes permitted by the U.S. Constitution.

America should cooperate with other nations and international organizations when doing so serves American interests. Agreements should identify their legal authority, obligations, costs, enforcement mechanisms, withdrawal terms, and effects on American self-government.

America may work with the world. America will not be governed by the world.

DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & DETERRENCE

America should honor legitimate commitments while expecting allies to contribute fairly. Before military force, the United States should use diplomacy, trade, intelligence, alliances, deterrence, and targeted economic pressure when practical and likely to work.

Major commitments should define the American interest, desired outcome, partner obligations, cost, escalation risk, review schedule, and conditions for continuation or exit.

USE OF FORCE

Avoid unnecessary regime-change wars. Military action should have lawful authority, a defined objective, a strategy proportionate to that objective, civilian oversight, and regular review. Classified operational details should remain protected, but classification should not be used to hide policy failure or evade constitutional accountability.

SANCTIONS & ECONOMIC PRESSURE

Sanctions should identify the target, prohibited conduct, expected objective, humanitarian safeguards, enforcement responsibility, review date, and conditions for removal. Measures that impose substantial cost on Americans without advancing the stated objective should be revised or ended.

WHAT WE WILL MEASURE

Public reporting should track allied burden sharing, treaty and commitment compliance, mission cost and duration, sanctions effectiveness, trade and consumer effects, critical supply-chain dependence, domestic capacity, intellectual-property enforcement, and whether stated objectives were achieved.

Related policies: Trade, Tariffs & Fair Market Access; China, Taiwan & Indo-Pacific Strategy; Strategic Adversaries & Authoritarian States; Military.

Status: Proposed / Draft — not yet formally adopted.

Originally published: August 15, 2026.

Last updated: September 25, 2026.

Version: Draft 0.6.