I've been trying to get young people excited about entering the field of international relations. Now I know that there's university programs that offer courses in international relations. A firm knowledge of geographical environments and a willingness to become updated in geography and cultures is of course a useful experiential backdrop. However, these are not the tools of the trade, so to speak.
It's the ability to see the principle or insightful idea that an event or country is going through at the moment--the forest through the trees, as it were--that is a telling trait of the person in the field. You've got to hang on to what you see as the underpinning concept or descriptive process that you are seeing in your mind right before you! And once you've located the phenomenon as a case of an x, you're in position to make adjustments and alterations to the actual present event. I think the danger is in thinking that altering the present will make the object or event into something other than it has been. Play with it from all sides and angles to see where changes lead to the greatest bang for the buck.
The second consideration is price and cost of making an alteration or even of suggesting a change in a present-day phenomenon. Change is the nature of life, of things, of objects in the universe in space and time. Be sure it's a change with the most advantages financially for those who are to make it.
And once you've determined on a course of action to recommend for improvement of some situation, stick with it! Too often, a person is willing to take on another point of view for the sake of financial and social security!
Well, herein is the major idea I'm proposing: give a global dimension to the here and now particular. Maybe, this approach to the topic as I develop it will include several paradigms, assuming I continue put it all down on paper!
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