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As we exit 2021, how has the #doorstep figured in discussions of U.S. foreign policy? And has the Biden/Harris administration laid the foundations for a new narrative for U.S. global engagement? Our last podcast with @MoElleithee starts the discussion. 1/ carnegiecouncil.org/studio/multime…

Colin Dueck raised concerns about the "say/do" gap--that rhetoric would outpace actual action. We've had a number of statements: foreign policy for the middle class, America is back, build back better ... how is that translating? 2/
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@MoElleithee The new administration came in with a full agenda. @ashjain50 noted both the work needed to rebuild alliances and partnerships and to ground America's position in the world at the head of a democratic coalition. 3/ carnegiecouncil.org/studio/multime…

@MoElleithee @ashjain50 While @CarolynKissane also outlined the parameters of what a policy based on "climate statecraft" might look like. 4/ carnegiecouncil.org/studio/multime…

@MoElleithee @ashjain50 @CarolynKissane Yet this comes in the background of changes in the global distribution of power where the U.S. no longer unilaterally sets the agenda. Other major powers are not necessarily on board and the U.S. must regain and hold the trust of other partners if it is to put together ... 5/

@MoElleithee @ashjain50 @CarolynKissane an enduring coalition. @Ali_Wyne discussed this earlier this year, and we see the current challenges over Taiwan and Ukraine putting his analysis to the test. 6/ carnegiecouncil.org/studio/multime…

@MoElleithee @ashjain50 @CarolynKissane @Ali_Wyne (And @AshaCastleberry, now serving in the administration, gave us a sense of how all these imperatives are taking shape in developing the U.S. approach in the Middle East.) 7/ carnegiecouncil.org/studio/multime…

@MoElleithee @ashjain50 @CarolynKissane @Ali_Wyne @AshaCastleberry The needle is difficult to thread: how to promote domestic economic growth and development; how to maintain the U.S.position while pivoting to the new climate and energy challenges. @1796farewell (Paul Saunders) gave us a sense of the challenge in how the U.S. pivot ... 8/

@MoElleithee @ashjain50 @CarolynKissane @Ali_Wyne @AshaCastleberry @1796farewell to Asia is faring. Part of this is about not only setting priorities but making choices. Security partnerships or human rights? Economic growth today or clean energy tomorrow? 9/ carnegiecouncil.org/studio/multime…

@MoElleithee @ashjain50 @CarolynKissane @Ali_Wyne @AshaCastleberry @1796farewell Domestic politics matter as well. We have an emerging narrative: the U.S. as a leader of a rejuvenated community of democratic nations working to develop and build on what the @wef calls the fourth industrial revolution: the new technologies that will address the climate ... 10/

@MoElleithee @ashjain50 @CarolynKissane @Ali_Wyne @AshaCastleberry @1796farewell @wef and energy concerns, help with economic growth, and show the resilience of the democratic bloc against its challengers. But it requires domestic buy-in and, more importantly, domestic legislators to budget. 11/

@MoElleithee @ashjain50 @CarolynKissane @Ali_Wyne @AshaCastleberry @1796farewell @wef It also requires the domestic national security community to pivot their thinking away from the conditions of the late 20th century to accept the realities of the mid-21st century. @FPRI_Orbis has been discussing the transition we are living through, from the end of the ... 12

@MoElleithee @ashjain50 @CarolynKissane @Ali_Wyne @AshaCastleberry @1796farewell @wef @FPRI_Orbis Cold War to today. 1992-era solutions may no longer apply. Tomorrow, we'll go through some of our episodes from 2021 that help us to understand the changed conditions we are living through. /13

@MoElleithee @ashjain50 @CarolynKissane @Ali_Wyne @AshaCastleberry @1796farewell @wef @FPRI_Orbis (As well as some of our other @carnegiecouncil programs ...) And with that, @threadreaderapp, please unroll. END