<p><span>Over the past four years, the Trump Administration has gutted the State Department, </span><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/24/how-trump-made-war-on-angela-merkel-and-europe">antagonized America’s foreign allies</a><span>, expressed admiration for authoritarians, broken key treaties and accords, and stoked conflicts all over the world. It now falls to Joe Biden’s foreign-policy team </span><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/10/05/biden-will-restore-americas-moral-leadership">to rebuild diplomatic relationships and reassert American leadership abroad</a><span>.<span> </span></span><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/susan-b-glasser">Susan B. Glasser</a><span> joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss </span><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/what-will-a-vengeful-president-do-to-the-world-in-his-final-weeks">the legacy of Donald Trump’s foreign policy</a><span>, and what Biden can do to counteract it.</span></p>
Over the past four years, the Trump Administration has gutted the State Department, antagonized America’s foreign allies, expressed admiration for authoritarians, broken key treaties and accords, and stoked conflicts all over the world. It now falls to Joe Biden’s foreign-policy team to rebuild diplomatic relationships and reassert American leadership abroad. Susan B. Glasser joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss the legacy of Donald Trump’s foreign policy, and what Biden can do to counteract it.