Algene T. Sajery, founder and chief executive officer of Catalyst Global Strategies, and Christopher M. Tuttle, managing director at the Council, sit down with James M. Lindsay to discuss what challe…
By defining today’s geopolitics as a clash between democracy and autocracy, the Biden administration risks both empowering America’s adversaries and undercutting its allies.
The authors note that “despite the decades-long failure to implement essential reforms and even in the face of sustained hostility from the [Donald J. Trump] administration diplomacy remains the best tool the United States has to advance its foreign policy interests.”
“But many of the challenges facing the DOS have existed for decades,” they explain. “Deficits in diversity, institutional culture, and professionalization are endemic to the State Department as an institution, and a diminished policy role for career officials persisted under previous administrations.”
Zeya and Finer identify areas in greatest need of reform and offer the following recommendations for the next secretary of state:
Panelists discuss the rise of domestic terrorism in the United States, and the threat of white supremacist organizations, QAnon, disinformation and fake news, and conspiracy groups following the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol. The Transition 2021 series examines the major issues confronting the administration in the foreign policy arena.