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Foreign Policy Restructuring

The election of Donald Trump to the helm of the United States presents an interesting scenario in relations between states and the Americans. The President-elect has greatly popularised his actions on social media which have elicited support and condemnation in equal measure. The Donald has praised with regards the Taiwanese considerations, applauded the European Union and embraced Iraq. The likelihood of propaganda application is certain. Diplomacy has a history of secrecy, and the American style is nothing far from it. This, however looks different. The international platform has had sentiments that favour the role of developing states in global prosperity. The level of cooperation between the global north and the south had grown and the terms of engagement availed choices which are an improvement. The change of guard might come along with stricter terms by The United States. The developing countries should now strive to improve their economic terms as a bargain with a business-borne

PAN AFRICAN NARRATIVE

The International community has supported and fronted the new framework to peace building which is the Responsibility to Protect. The prevention of genocides and several other crimes against humanity through joint effort. In letter, this is an exemplary goal with a Westernised print out. I do not intend to exclude the African input to the international community setting but the failure of the procedure initiates a –who is the actual owner of it- thought. It is then that I will be able to compare and contrast, between the sponsoring faction and the silent owner. Kwame Nkrumah spearheaded African liberation from colonialism, Malcom X and Martin Luther King were at the centre of the battle abroad. The old black guy was married to the people and the ideal of freedom. What aroused this enthusiasm was actually the responsibility to protect, in an old capsule. Kwame reminded us of the power of a united Africa that our priorities subscribed to, rather than the state formula. We got a charm l

Trappings of Succession Politics

The Trappings of Succession The headlines, the bulletins and front pages of the media outlets describe a worrying trend in Kenya’s political display. The basis for ally or foe in the political context is ideologies, values and the influence of visions. Kenya’s rhetoric is far from that. The thumbscrew has been the craving, anxiety and plans of succession. Development has both economic and political timings. The performance of an economy could be understood and interpreted with ease, but political processes that favour development have an ingenious way of avoiding clarity. The contemporary trends have explicit and implicit mergers, both at the national and county level. Parties have cropped up, with plans to gather bargaining power and some have disintegrated as ploys to amass political power play out. Machiavelli, a political scholar described the balance between the nobility and the people in a constitutional principality. Mobilization and demobilization of both sides is based on t