Iowa, New Hampshire and the Disembodiment of American Foreign Policy
Category: POLITICS
The American primary system for the nomination of presidential and congressional candidates, a system never mentioned in the constitution, has allowed populist anger to be exploited into a veto on foreign policy.  Primaries, as they have evolved with the assistance of social media, have become an exercise that grants extraordinary electoral power to the dissatisfied and to the extremes.
By Edward Goldberg, ContributorNYU Center for Global Affairs, Scholarly Practitioner Baruch C..., 2016-01-17