“America was ready for renewal. The world was there to remake. There were at least two more years to get it done.”
So concludes Alex Ward’s recent book “The Internationalists: The Fight to Restore American Foreign Policy after Trump,” a detailed account of President Joe Biden’s first two years in office. Ward’s deeply reported narrative ends in late April of 2023, with national security adviser Jake Sullivan delivering a speech at the Brookings Institution that symbolically brought the neoliberal era to an end.
Read Full Article »