If the Democratic Party candidates win in November, they will reset America’s role in international politics and fix the damage done by the Trump ...
If Biden and Harris win in November, they will introduce important policy initiatives.
Second, they will bolster the institutions that previously made America strong and restore its leadership in the world. That will be crucial: Although much has been written about what Biden and Harris should do for America, they also have a global responsibility.U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during the largely virtual 2020 Republican National Convention on Aug 25, 2020.
Fortunately, this coldly “realist” US foreign policy slowly gave way to one with some moral compass and global concern. The president who deserves the greatest credit for this shift is Jimmy Carter. This is the big responsibility that Biden and Harris must shoulder in seeking to re-establish the global leadership from which America has retreated under Trump.On the subject of internationalism, Biden and Harris may wish to consider the thoughts of India’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, who spoke more eloquently about these values than perhaps any other leader.
Nehru made his position clear in a remarkable 1953 letter to India’s chief ministers. “The feeling of nationalism is an enlarging and widening experience for the individual or the nation,” he wrote. “More especially, when a country is under foreign domination, nationalism is a strengthening and unifying force. But, a stage arrives when it might well have a narrowing influence...”
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