Biden Administration’s Foreign Policy and Its Challenges (2021.09)
- Author : Kim Young Joon, Shin Young Hwan
- Publication : National Security and Strategy
- Publisher : Institute for National Security Strategy
- Volume : 21(3)
- Date : September, 2021
Abstract: The aim of this study is to understand Biden administration’s foreign policy principles and problems. This paper analyzed Biden administration’s official documents and speeches made by President Biden and Secretary Blinken regarding foreign policy. This paper claims that Biden administration’s foreign policy is built on four major principles; rebuilding relations with international community through diplomacy, pursuing progressive policy agenda, selective intervention, and China policy layered by competition and cooperation. This study identified four policy tasks for Biden administrations to resolve in order to achieve its foreign policy goals. They are managing diplomatic relations with authoritarian countries, internal dilemma of pursing progressive policy agenda, dealing with morality of America’s place in the world, and finding equilibrium in its relations with China.