Americans First: The Biden Administration’s Geopolitics
The Biden administration’s geopolitics is beginning to be noticed. It aims to build on a reconciled nation willing to see its foreign policy objectives as a defense of its own interests.
It is making China a high priority in keeping with the previous administration's example, and banking on its allies to re-establish leadership of the democratic nations. The domestic issue remains unresolved, and the necessary political reconciliation could prove difficult to accomplish.
Pierre Melandri, historian and former professor of American history at Sciences Po, is the author of several books on history and American foreign policy, including: Le Siècle américain, une histoire (Paris, Perrin, 2016).
Article published in Politique étrangère, Vol. 86, No. 3, Autumn 2021.
