The Biggest Foreign Policy Challenges Facing Harris and Trump
Military.com | By Stephen J. Cimbala and Lawrence J. Korb
Published October 24, 2024 at 3:14pm ET
As the U.S. presidential election looms, many questions still remain about how either Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris or Republican nominee and former President Donald Trump will handle issues related to national security or foreign policy. The following discussion outlines some of the issues that the new president and her or his administration will have to grapple with in order to establish clearer understandings of America's role in the world and its connection to U.S. domestic politics.
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First, there is much discussion among political office holders, media commentators and others about the return of a new Cold War resembling the geopolitical rivalries among the U.S., the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China from the end of World War II until the collapse of the Soviet Union. On the other hand, a more complicated picture looms ahead than a retro Cold War. We are heading into a post-post Cold War system that is partly reminiscent of the past but partakes of a new economic, technological and military constellation of factors influencing policy and strategy.
The present global geopolitical system is a work in progress involving at least two different ad hoc coalitions of states. The first is a collaborative coalition of countries working to resolve international problems through transnational cooperation in areas such as climate change, pandemics, international peace and security, failed states and human trafficking. This coalition has some fluidity in its membership, depending on the issues involved, but it includes most of the world's larger democracies and wealthier states, as well as selected other actors in the Global South. We can think of this grouping as the "Problem Solvers" coalition.
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