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Will Biden’s Administration Simply Represent a Third Obama Term?
Eras in U.S. foreign policy are begun and ended by dramatic world events, not regularly-scheduled presidential elections.
WILL A Biden administration’s foreign policy be radically different from that of Donald Trump?
- Michael Lind
- The National Interest
Apart from symbolic acts like rejoining the unenforceable Paris Climate accords, probably not.
Eras in U.S. foreign policy are begun and ended by dramatic world events, not regularly-scheduled presidential elections.
Following World War II, the United States rapidly demobilized.
Then the shock of the Korean War led it to reverse course.
The initial stage…