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

Masisi PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO
Masisi PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO

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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