Tools Of Foreign Policy Tools of foreign policy are the many regulations, standards, principals and tactics the United States (or any country) uses with dealing with other sovereign states. Simply put Foreign Policy is the conducting of relations between nations by their heads directly or through accredited representatives. The US uses its tools of Foreign Policy to implement its goals of Foreign Policy, goals such as World Peace, Concern for Human Rights, Promoting Democracy, National Security and Free and Open Trade. The many Foreign Policy goals of the US, past and present, and the Foreign Policy tools we use to accomplish and carry out those goal