By Shahab Sabahi
Energy and Environment - Policy analysis research group
It is hard to come up with words that are strong enough to describe our policymakers. Perhaps one likes to portray them as incompetent negotiators, awful thinkers, misguided policy analysts, ignorance or disregard for the public interest, and exhibit of ego.
But they do not hold for the earlier generation of politicians. How? Imagine if our policymakers had the experience that politicians had during cold war. Given China as the ideological opponent of those politicians, they implicitly engaged China and take advantage of its position in negotiating the conflict of interests with the Soviet Union. The politicians fascinatingly made that strategic collaborating deal with China in order to secure the national interests. They saw things in a way that “No matter cat is black or white when it can catch mouse”. They did not compromise anything but their ideology.
A successful negotiation needs strategic thoughts those which require perceptions.
That sort of Cold War – policies can be only laid out by the faculty of wisdom. It requires leaders whose strong visions guide their ways to success even though uncertainties are high. Today policymakers are naïve and stand for about what their opponents push, albeit they call it “compromising”.
They hide the fact that their only objective is vectoring next election regardless of the cost which their supporters should bear.
Energy and Environment - Policy analysis research group
It is hard to come up with words that are strong enough to describe our policymakers. Perhaps one likes to portray them as incompetent negotiators, awful thinkers, misguided policy analysts, ignorance or disregard for the public interest, and exhibit of ego.
But they do not hold for the earlier generation of politicians. How? Imagine if our policymakers had the experience that politicians had during cold war. Given China as the ideological opponent of those politicians, they implicitly engaged China and take advantage of its position in negotiating the conflict of interests with the Soviet Union. The politicians fascinatingly made that strategic collaborating deal with China in order to secure the national interests. They saw things in a way that “No matter cat is black or white when it can catch mouse”. They did not compromise anything but their ideology.
A successful negotiation needs strategic thoughts those which require perceptions.
That sort of Cold War – policies can be only laid out by the faculty of wisdom. It requires leaders whose strong visions guide their ways to success even though uncertainties are high. Today policymakers are naïve and stand for about what their opponents push, albeit they call it “compromising”.
They hide the fact that their only objective is vectoring next election regardless of the cost which their supporters should bear.
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