Mark Leonard's World in 30 Minutes5 Apr 2024

From crisis to crisis: evaluating Biden’s foreign policy

With the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and the war in Gaza, US president Joe Biden has been forced to deal with some major foreign policy crises. Guiding him through these, a team of seasoned foreign policy professionals, among which Antony Blinken, Bill Burns, Avril Haines, and Jake Sullivan, were brought on to “restore” America’s foreign policy after four years of Donald Trump’s presidency.

In this week’s episode, following the launch of ECFR’s Washington office, Mark Leonard welcomes national security reporter at Politico, Alexander Ward, and research director and director of ECFR’s new US programme, Jeremy Shapiro, to discuss Biden’s foreign policy performance. Has it been a success? Where has it fallen short of the goals Biden set? And has his team of foreign policy experts lived up to the promise of restoring America’s foreign policy?

This episode was recorded on 27 March 2024

Bookshelf:

The Internationalists: The Fight to Restore American Foreign Policy after Trump by Alexander Ward

20 Days in Mariupol - an AP News and Frontline documentary film by Mstyslav Chernov

Collisions: The Origins of the War in Ukraine and the New Global Instability by Michael Kimmage

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