The content of the discipline covers a range of issues related to the study of various methods and theoretical approaches to the analysis of the main directions of foreign policy, the peculiarities of the process of its formation and implementation, the process of making foreign policy decisions in individual countries of the region and the world. The knowledge obtained in the process of mastering the discipline will allow the student to freely navigate in a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of modern foreign policy of states.