“America is back.” Joe Biden couldn’t resist repeating his foreign policy mantra during his debut on the (virtual) international stage of the Munich Security Conference, but he went significantly beyond his inaugural promise to repair alliances and restore leadership. Declaring that the US is looking not backward but forward, he outlined a vision of international engagement that puts democratic resilience at the core of Western security. In so doing, he laid the groundwork for new forms of trans-Atlantic cooperation. Biden is well aware that on neither side of the Atlantic are citizens longing for restoration of an — arguably illusory — Western order in which the US led, materially as well as morally, and Europe followed. DW’s Melinda Crane America’s domestic political divisions, its citizens’ resistance to the role of global policeman, set clear limits to that role. With his campaign promise of a “foreign policy for the middle class,” Biden made it known early on that his approach to foreign policy will transcend the old dividing lines between the international and domestic, the economic and security spheres. Europe wary and weary Though he made only polite and passing reference to NATO budgetary contributions in his MSC speech, it was clear that he expects his… Read full this story
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