Five months before the next presidential elections, it is time to picture the ongoing campaign in the COVID-19 context. What can be expected from President Trump in the last period of his first term? What will be the main challenges for the next President of the United States?

James M. LINDSAY has written widely on American foreign policy. His most recent book, co-authored with Ivo H. Daalder, is The Empty Throne: America’s Abdication of Global Leadership. His previous book with Ambassador Daalder, America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy, was awarded the 2003 Lionel Gelber Prize. 

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