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This thesis examines the foreign policy of the New Right by studying The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 policy document. Guided by a theoretical framework of populism, social conservatism, and sovereigntism, and an interpretive research design, the study uses a qualitative analysis of ideology in order to examine the extent to which Project 2025 is representative of New Right international ideology. By doing so, it seeks to expand the scholarly understanding of the ideological composition of the New Right, both by incorporating new empirical material and by studying ideological prescriptions rather than actions or statements from politicians and governments. The findings of the study indicate that active promotion of social conservative values is more central to foreign policy for the New Right than previously theorized, and that the American New Right has not yet decided on, or unified around, a committed standing on the Russian invasion of Ukraine or on trade policy. These findings are significant for the scholarship on the New Right as it contributes to a deeper understanding of the trajectory of the American Right and of American foreign policy.