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The Biden Administration: An Opportunity to Affirm a Flexible and Adaptive American World Leadership

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  • Tanguy Struye de Swielande

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The article develops a strategic framework to redefine American international leadership under the Biden administration. While the decline of the American‐led order is not a new trend, it has been accelerated under the Trump administration, which focused on domestic policies and left the global stage in disarray. The challenges are many for the new president, and many pressures can already be felt. Biden's administration is under high expectations to stabilize the international system and deal with the many issues that the world faces: economic recovery, COVID‐19, climate change, cybersecurity, and relations with China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea, to name but a few. Yet, while the Biden presidency is—wrongly—understood as “U.S. back to normal,” the international stage has evolved. The article thus argues that restoring American world leadership means modifying that leadership and adapting it to the new reality. Building on management theories and the English School of international relations theories, the research presents a theoretical framework for reinventing and reconstructing a new form of leadership. It then applies the resulting strategic design to the Biden administration's objectives and policies in the form of seven strategic recommendations. Ultimately, the article explains how the United States can remain world leader by acknowledging the current global situation and adopting a pragmatic vision of international affairs. El artículo desarrolla un marco estratégico para redefinir el liderazgo internacional estadounidense bajo la administración Biden. Si bien el declive del orden liderado por Estados Unidos no es una tendencia nueva, se aceleró bajo la administración Trump, que se centró en las políticas internas y dejó el escenario mundial en desorden. Los desafíos son muchos para el nuevo presidente y ya se pueden sentir muchas presiones. La administración de Biden tiene grandes expectativas de estabilizar el sistema internacional y abordar los muchos problemas que enfrenta el mundo: recuperación económica, COVID‐19, cambio climático, ciberseguridad, relaciones con China, Rusia, Irán, Corea del Norte, por nombrar solo algunos. Sin embargo, si bien la presidencia de Biden se entiende, erróneamente, como “Estados Unidos de vuelta a la normalidad,” el escenario internacional ha evolucionado. Por tanto, el artículo sostiene que restaurar el liderazgo mundial estadounidense significa modificar ese liderazgo y adaptarlo a la nueva realidad. Sobre la base de las teorías de la gestión y las teorías de las relaciones internacionales de la Escuela Inglesa, la investigación presenta un marco teórico para reinventar y reconstruir una nueva forma de liderazgo. Luego aplica el diseño estratégico resultante a los objetivos y políticas de la administración de Biden en forma de siete recomendaciones estratégicas. En última instancia, el artículo explica cómo Estados Unidos puede seguir siendo líder mundial reconociendo la situación mundial actual y adoptando una visión pragmática de los asuntos internacionales. 本文建立了一個戰略框架,以重新定義拜登政府領導下的美國國際領導地位。儘管以美國為首的秩序的衰落並不是新趨勢,但在特朗普政府的推動下,這種趨勢加速了。特朗普政府專注於國內政策,卻使全球舞台陷入混亂。新總統面臨許多挑戰,已經感受到許多壓力。拜登政府對穩定國際體系和處理世界面臨的許多問題寄予很高的期望:經濟復甦,COVID‐19,氣候變化,網絡安全,與中國,俄羅斯,伊朗,朝鮮的關係,僅舉幾例。然而,雖然拜登總統被錯誤地理解為”美國回到正常狀態”,國際舞台已經演變。因此,本文認為,恢復美國的世界領導地位意味著要修改該領導地位並使之適應新的現實。該研究以管理理論和英國國際關係學派為基礎,為重塑和重構一種新的領導形式提供了理論框架。然後,它以七項戰略建議的形式將由此產生的戰略設計應用於拜登政府的目標和政策。最終,本文解釋了美國如何通過承認當前的全球局勢並採取務實的國際事務遠景來保持世界領導地位。

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  • Tanguy Struye de Swielande, 2021. "The Biden Administration: An Opportunity to Affirm a Flexible and Adaptive American World Leadership," World Affairs, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 184(2), pages 130-150, June.
  • Handle: RePEc:wly:woraff:v:184:y:2021:i:2:p:130-150
    DOI: 10.1177/00438200211014643
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