July 12

July 12, 2010 Session

It was definitely one of the evening I can't forget. The air condition is not working which made it hard for us to focus on the discussion. But without further delay we started with the discussion. The focus was on the foreign policy process making. Although our professor engaged about 30minutes on answering about some blog questions RE: the discussions from the previous meeting. She managed to shift those questions and connect it to the new topic.
Foreign policy always starts with the domestic policy of the state. You have to start local before going international. Today I learned that foreign policy is not constant. I learned that the three pillars are non negotiable, and this three pillars are connected to the realities of the President.

We were divided to six groups. I was on group 5. We were assigned with an activity about foreign policy decision making using what we had learned tonight from implementation to evaluation and so on. Our group will focus on human trafficking specifically on EU. It's a great topic for me I should admit. As they say it in Tagalog "pumapanahon" with the remaining time for that we had our group managed to exchange ideas about our topic and I was assigned to take the part of OWWA with regards to human trafficking. Our leader asked us to email our work on Wednesday so that we can have it ready for the next meeting.