"Miller basically made clear that it was not going to be looked at from the typical lens of foreign policy," a second White House official told me.
The application of a health lens in foreign policymaking might be one way in which emerging middle powers can find traction in the international system.
Supporting this effort, the Director General of the WHO writes that "we need to embed the use of the health lens in foreign policy while we have this chance" but warns that this relationship requires "careful management for mutual benefit" (97, p. 498).
Evan Osnos looks at New York City through a foreign lens.
"Captured on our streets by a foreign lens," the newspaper blared, "shaming images that turned Britain into a laughingstock".
But by looking at the region exclusively through the oil lens, he reduces foreign policy to simplistic energy imperialism, concluding with exaggerated visions of endless energy wars, floods of refugees, oil price shocks and ever-growing foreign military commitments.
In the end, there is no escaping his status as an outsider, his view of his surroundings through a foreign lens: "As a Peace Corps volunteer, I constantly heard incredulous Chinese ask what sort of nation sent its citizens overseas, away from their family, to work with strangers.
Can you really take ownership of this story and tell our story to the world without being exploitative or having a foreign lens?" That is what was so important about spending so much time there.
Firms can apply the findings to design an ownership strategy that considers both efficient and benefit lenses, fostering successful foreign investment.
