Podcast
23.11.2020

What Joe Biden’s Win Means for the World

Katharina Emschermann talks to Sarah Kreps about key challenges for the next US administration.

In the first episode of the “Berlin Security Beat”, a podcast from the Centre for International Security, Katharina Emschermann, Deputy Director at the Centre, interviews Sarah Kreps, Professor of Government at Cornell University, US Air Force veteran and seasoned policy advisor.

They discuss key challenges for the next US administration, the crisis of NATO and how (not) to overcome it, Trump’s vs. Biden’s approach to China, and why military restraint might not be the new foreign policy consensus in the US.

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