"America Is Back"? U.S. Foreign Policy in the Joe Biden Era

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"America Is Back"? U.S. Foreign Policy in the Joe Biden Era
Daniel Sneider Rafael Jacob
Moderator: Benoit Hardy-Chartrand (Adjunct Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, Temple University Japan(
Wednesday 17 February 2021 10:00 - 11:30 JST

Overview
"America is back", Joe Biden declared after his election victory last November. What does this mean for the United States' foreign policy, after four years of retreat from its traditional role as the leader of the international liberal order? In addition to polarization and political instability at home, President Biden faces numerous external challenges that will affect his ability to fulfill his promise. What can the East Asian region, and the international community more broadly, expect from his administration at a time of increasing global instability?

Speakers
Daniel Sneider is a Lecturer in International Policy and East Asian Studies at Stanford University and the former Associate Director for Research at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford. Since 2017, he has been based partly in Tokyo as a Visiting Researcher at the Canon Institute for Global Studies, where he has been working on a diplomatic history of the creation and management of the U.S. security alliances with Japan and South Korea during the Cold War. Sneider's research is focused on U.S. foreign and national security policy in Asia and on the foreign and security policy of Japan and Korea. He contributes regularly to the leading Japanese publication Toyo Keizai and was Associate Editor of the widely read Nelson Report on Asia policy issues.

Rafael Jacob is a fellow at the Raoul Dandurand Chair of Strategic and Diplomatic Studies, where his work concentrates on the study and the analysis of American politics. He possesses a unique background in Canada, holding a doctorate in political science from Temple University in Philadelphia, where he has also taught, in addition to several years of applied professional experience in the political realm. He is regularly invited by the media and decision-makers to analyze U.S. current events, giving since 2012 over 3,000 interviews to local, national, and international media outlets, as well as some 50 conferences to a host of public and private-sector stakeholders. Currently teaching in three universities, he published last year Revolution Trump, which has since become a best-selling book in Quebec.

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Wednesday 17 February 2021 10:00 - 11:30 JST

Sponsors
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