Global Leaders to Watch in 2023
As President Joe Biden concludes his second year in office, despite many positive foreign-policy achievements, his administration can hardly afford to rest upon its laurels, in what has increasingly come to be seen as a ‘multipolar’ world.
Challenges endure such as the Ukraine war, the COVID pandemic (especially in China), inflationary economies, continued supply-chain disruptions, and US adversaries’ ruthless approaches to both asymmetric and traditional warfare.
President Biden’s biggest challenge remains in uniting a divided America, NATO and the West – along with key nations in the ‘global south’ – in understanding that this generation’s struggle against autocracy is the signature foreign-policy challenge of our time, and one which will require an embrace of late President Ronald Reagan’s bipartisan vision. Otherwise, in spite of the West’s successes last year, we risk becoming – as the historian Christopher Clark noted – ‘sleepwalkers’ in an awful history which continues to repeat itself…
