Will there be a "Masisi Doctrine" in Foreign Policy?

Friday, October 19, 2018

The modern President has to be countless things that are not spelled out in the Constitution. He or she has to be a cheerleader for the nation, an international peacemaker, a moral leader, a jobs president, the nation’s chief economic manager, politician in chief, and even a dancer at our weddings and a source of comfort at our funerals.

Moreover, a President must preside over a highly specialised and sprawling bureaucracy. When it comes to policy, the presidency has three major areas to preside over: economic policy, domestic policy and foreign affairs.

These are all competing policy spheres. But the demands of the office require that presidents strike a balance between all three substantive areas. Failure to do so, history will judge them harshly.

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Will there be a "Masisi Doctrine" in Foreign Policy?