The foreign policy team Biden appoints matters less than the world they inherit, policies they pursue, and the pressure they get from progressives.
Regions / Europe & Central Asia
Biden can immediately reverse some of Trump's most disastrous decisions. And each one can set the stage for broader progressive foreign policy initiatives.
There's no returning to normal after Donald Trump.
European leaders welcome the potential return of multilateralism with the defeat of Trump. But the European right has a different take.
It simply doesn’t make a lot of sense to entrust leadership to a country with a severe personality disorder.
It's going to take more than a change of personnel in Washington to address our decaying climate, public health, and democracy. But it's not too late.
Bolivians overwhelmingly rejected a U.S.-backed coup regime. The U.S. should take it as a sign to abandon regime change — and rejoin the international community.
Authoritarianism has been on the march for years, but people powered revolutions are pushing regimes toward democracy on nearly every continent.
COVID-19 is an early alert for more serious global crises. So far, the international community has failed — but it’s not too late to get it right.
If Trump loses, we can't just go back to the status quo. On foreign policy especially, movements need to be ready to push a new administration hard.