In Charge, But Not in Control: Biden’s Foreign Policy
| Author | James D. Boys |
| DOI | 10.1177/20419058221091628a |
| Date | 01 March 2022 |
| Published date | 01 March 2022 |
4 POLITICAL INSIGHT • APRIL 2022
An American President
prevaricating in the face of
Russian aggression, facing
questions about his age,
mental agility and ability to win a second
term, facing concerns about his family’s
overseas business dealings, at odds with
his vice president, unwilling to hold
regular press conferences, and with
dangerously low favourability ratings.
Nope, this isn’t Donald Trump, but Joe
Biden in early 2022.
Biden was the man elected to restore
American credibility on the world stage.
But assessments of US foreign policy
during his first year in office have tended
to fall into one of two categories: dammed
outright by his opponents, and damned
In Charge, But Not
in Control: Biden’s
Foreign Policy
James D. Boys analyses President Biden’s foreign policy during his first
year in office – and finds more problems than solutions.
with faint praise by his supporters. Those
who embraced Trump’s ‘America First’
approach have found little to commend in
the new administration, while those who
celebrated Trump’s departure from office
have scrambled to find any significant
benefits from Biden’s first year in office,
other than his reversal of Trump’s excesses.
Either way, US foreign policy during the
first 12 months of the Biden presidency
has been less than triumphant, however
one examines it.
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