Identity Variable and its Impact on Foreign Policy

Abstract

The present study aims at addressing the issue of identity and its impact on foreign policy. It investigates the
concept of identity as an independent variable and the concept of foreign policy asa dependent one in an
effort to gauge the existence of correlational effect of the former on the latter. The study is premised on the
following central question: To what extent does identity affect the state's foreign policy? With other subquestions derived for the aforementioned problematic, the researcher utilized adescriptive approach to
examinethe research hypothesis of the existence of a correlation between identity and foreign policy.The
study concluded that identity does affect foreign policy in two ways; one direct and the other indirect.
Moreover, a reverse effect of foreign policy on identity was also found out