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President George H. W. Bush, unlike his son, was transactional, but implemented a very successful foreign policy.
This involves the ability to size up group politics and understand the positions and strengths of various stakeholders in order to decide when and how to use transactional and inspirational skills.
A transactional leader, he famously stated that he did not do “the vision thing.”
In the short term, this will require a transactional, rather than a principled, approach;Trump is, after all, a dealmaker.
Trump’s unprecedentedly transactional – and highly erratic – approach to foreign policy is similarly destabilizing.
But this is the first time a US president has unabashedly acknowledged the purely transactional nature of their policy decisions.
Perhaps more important, the transactional approach to international relations on which Trump’s strategy relies is likely to persist long after he leaves office.
At yet another conference, I was musing about how to make introductions efficient but not transactional when I was introduced to Lisa Anderson of Werqit by Megan Smith of Google.
Canada is not alone in seeking to criminalize transactional sex between consenting adults.
In doing so, these countries would also be responding to the increasingly transactional approach to sustaining openness that the larger traders are being compelled to adopt.
The same is true of transactional sex.
A year later, at a Cairo conference that negotiated borders in the region, he changed to a British officer’s uniform as he engaged in hard transactional bargaining.
But there are three areas where a Trump-approved transactional approach can produce agreement that serves US interests, while stabilizing the broader international community.
Trump’s approach to governance – characterized by an unprecedented lack of interest in rules, principles, alliances, and institutions – is sometimes described as transactional.
Solutions to current problems must respect people’s aspirations for statehood and sovereignty, while going beyond tactical or transactional approaches that provide only short-term relief.
If Trump wants to make the transatlantic relationship more transactional, then the EU needs to be ready to trade across different policy areas to make deals.
In my book Presidential Leadership and the Creation of the American Era, I divide presidents into two categories: those who are transformational in their objectives, pursuing large visions related to major changes; and transactional leaders, who focus more on “operational” issues – ensuring that the metaphorical trains run on time (and stay on the tracks).
Rather than being critical of Kennedy for not living up to his rhetoric, we should be grateful that in critical situations, he was prudent and transactional rather than ideological and transformational.
We are fortunate that he was more often transactional than transformational in foreign policy.
In America’s “get ’er done” transactional Weltanschauung, international disputes tend to be viewed as military challenges that are merely masquerading as political issues.
Gillard was a highly competent transactional politician who had her minute of international fame with a brilliantly passionate attack on her opponent’s misogyny.
Second, and more insidious, the absence of an overarching purpose reinforces a narrow view of self-interest, with decisions made discretely, based on a transactional, rather than a systemic, outlook.
Because it is itself governed by law, the EU is bound to oppose a purely transactional approach to international relations.
Second, Americans often pride themselves on taking a transactional approach to the world.
Such a model would empower billions of Internet users by making them beneficiaries of a transactional exchange – one that adds value in every direction.
Moreover, paying for something that one perceives as valuable helps make it so, as the move to prioritize membership models over purely transactional approaches illustrates.
The Indian economy’s stumbling performance and its domestic political divides have created new foreign-policy challenges in an increasingly difficult external environment, with a transactional President Donald Trump taking a cost-benefit view of the US-India relationship and Chinese President Xi Jinping strengthening his support for India’s hostile neighbor, Pakistan.
Rebuilding America’s treaties and alliances will be a welcome development after four years of President Donald Trump’s transactional approach to the world.
As a result, its approach is highly transactional, avoiding sensitive geopolitical issues and capitalizing on rulers’ discontent with US policy in order to advance Chinese economic interests.
If the wounds of Brexit are ever to heal, voters will have to move past transactional, tribal politics and embrace leaders who are willing to reach out to the other side and speak honestly about policy tradeoffs.
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