The world is continuing to change, with increasing collision, connection, and integration amongst various ideologies and cultures. In such a world, led by increasing globalization, it may be desirable for productive and successful countries to have a positive effect on the global society. However, it may be beneficial to have a policy community inside and outside the country in order to have a positive effect. Recently, the policy literature has placed emphasis on policy communities and networks. To develop policies, governments require information from non-governmental sources. Additionally, the ease of implementing policies in a sector increases as the interests and organizations of that sector become more coherent. Thus, the recent emphasis on policy communities and networks is a result of their perceived role in policy development and implementation. This role also extends to a global context, where the communities and networks may exist outside of the country in which a policy is being developed or implemented. However, the main influence that the policy communities and networks have on government may be only through generating , discussing ideas, and promoting these ideas to various groups. They may not actually engage in any decision making, and some have argued that interest groups within the government actively work to limit any participation in decision making from non-governmental organizations and individuals. However recent trends in policy community management show such as public consultation, citizen engagement, and horizontal management are working against these limitations. In this paper, we will discuss two contrasting approaches to policy communities and networks: taken by Iran and Canada. In addition, we will examine how these countries could engage in policy borrowing to improve their effects on the global society.