Our foreign policy between latency and effectiveness

Ali Café “Dreamers of Tomorrow”
Our foreign policy between latency and effectiveness
Hossam Badrawi
As an Egyptian citizen, I have high hopes for the homeland, and I seek to present ideas and visions followed by dialogues with young dreamers of tomorrow. My main motive behind this is my passion for reform, my desire to positively participate in achieving sustainability in development, and the accumulation of efforts to make Egypt a great country, which it deserves.
Egypt’s true wealth has been in its citizens throughout history. Those who made Egyptian civilization in the oldest country in history are the Egyptians, and those who started enlightenment in the region were the Egyptians. My fear and anxiety is that we will lose our most important treasures, our children and youth, whether due to a low level of education, extremism in thought, reactionary behavior, or loss of values.
Our responsibility is great as older generations, and whoever has the ability must give his opinion within the framework of legitimacy and the law, and must think, say and document.
In this context, I consider the slogan put forward by the country’s leadership under the name “The New Republic” seriously, and even as a commitment to presenting ideas that contribute to building the country, avoiding past mistakes and learning from them, and looking at the world around us and benefiting from its experiences.
Therefore, I am with a group of young people whom I am trying to motivate, experts whose thinking I seek to extract, and politicians who are ready to offer their opinions and share their experiences, we meet from time to time, not only to ask, what do they mean by the new republic?! As many people do, it is as if we are a passive party in the equation of making the future. Rather, we are discussing how to be active in building this republic.
As we chart our way towards the new republic, we must keep in mind that the political, social and technical situation in the twenty-first century seems like a landslide victory for the Western orientation towards liberalism, market capitalism and the emphasis on human rights in a battle that lasted nearly four decades after the Second World War against fascist and communist ideologies. ..But it appeared to us that Western liberalism, without the existence of the opposite, has turned into a crushing monster that draws a new colonial map, with a low plurality of human rights, and is now suffering internally from existential crises, intersecting transformations, and a loss of credibility.
It seems to me that the revolutions of information technology and biotechnology are now the greatest challenges of the human race since its existence, and the greatest opportunity for it and for us at the same time.
It also seems to me that the possibilities of merging information technology and biotechnology may in the near future lead to the removal of millions of people from the labor markets, the disturbing undermining of freedom and equality and the increase of social disparities.
Rather, this development, using artificial intelligence and big data algorithms, could create digital dictatorships that humanity has not known before, with the concentration of power in the hands of small elites that transcend the traditional borders of countries in their historical form, while most of the world’s citizens will suffer from exploitation or are thrown into the trash.
Where are we from that, are we ready?
How do we qualify our youth for these changes and not wait for relief from God, nor for someone to save us from the scourge of the challenges of poverty and ignorance.. We are the ones who must work to build the new Egypt, after we define it, and define our goals and means of achieving them in this new, modern republic..
I have come close to finishing writing a book entitled “Broad Hopes for a New Republic,” and I have taken an approach in it, which is to write a discourse after research, followed by a dialogue with young people, so that we listen to them and respect that the world of tomorrow is their world.
In the first chapter, under the title of an integrated vision for the new republic, I summarized ten orientations, choices, and hopes that can increase.
The directions included ten pillars of the new republic, the first of which is the stability of the political system to rule the country regardless of the name or ideology, allowing for the selection of the most efficient and effective, with transparency and the ability of society to be accountable.
The second is bringing about a cultural change in the behavior of society from the gate of education, culture and media, and clear policies to deal with young people of different age groups. This means placing the axis of human development, including education, culture, media, youth and health care in a file that can be dealt with in a coherent framework.
The third is related to the absolute belief that the heart of the new republic is its justice system, without which the state cannot be established..and that there is an imperative for a qualitative and intellectual reform of justice institutions and law enforcement institutions (the police). This pillar is one of the two most important pillars for the building of the modern civil state, in addition to opening the horizons of knowledge from the gate of education, learning and culture.
The fourth is to make a structural change in the Egyptian economy, with the aim of stimulating, sustaining and balancing growth, while creating employment opportunities.
And the fifth is reforming the administrative apparatus in the state, reviving ethics and values ​​that consolidate the principles of honesty and integrity, fighting corruption, supporting transparency, and changing the pattern of governance and digitalization in all institutions, with the gradual application of decentralization.
The sixth is preserving the environment for the sake of future generations, while sustainably providing clean energy and water for the needs of the Egyptian people
The seventh is defining the Egyptian role in shaping the future of Africa, the Middle East, and the world, and its implementation strategies.
Eighth, it is to increase the capabilities of the Egyptian army, in terms of equipment and training, and to develop the armament pattern by increasing the capacity for military industrialization, and to find a civilized synthesis that respects the presence of the armed forces that protect the homeland and the constitution, without prejudice to the civil state, the fairness of economic competition, and the freedom of political practice.
This is followed ninth by developing the role of an effective civil society, revitalizing and supporting it, and respecting the rights of citizens truly and without equivocation.
The tenth direction is to control the growth, quality and distribution of the population.
In view of the reality of the rapid and multiple changes around us, I open the door for dialogue on the seventh direction, which is defining the Egyptian role in shaping the future of Africa, the Middle East and the world, and strategies for implementing