Feb 2, 2021
As the Biden administration takes shape, many wonder
whether it will implement a truly progressive foreign policy
agenda. President Biden’s early action to freeze arms sales to
Saudi Arabia has given progressives hope. However, several key
national security and foreign policy appointments project a more
complicated picture. Katrina vanden Heuvel, long-time editor and
part owner of The Nation, joins Eurasia
Group Foundation’s Mark Hannah to unpack early indications of
whether President Biden will follow through on the realistic and
humble foreign policy on which he campaigned. If, as the adage
goes, “personnel is policy,” what do his cabinet nominees and early
appointments tell us about the president’s vision and agenda?
Finally, vanden Heuvel explores what might be done to curb some of
the interventionist impulses starting to play out among Biden’s
inner circle.