“The world cannot unsee the Trump presidency,” Jonathan Kirshner writes in a new essay. “From now on, all countries, everywhere, must hedge their bets about the United States. ... Whatever promises are made and best behaviors followed over the next few years, a resurgence of knuckle-dragging America firstism will loom menacingly in the shadows.”

In this new geopolitical environment, will the Biden administration be able to restore the United States to a global position resembling the one it held four years ago? Or has the country—and the world—changed too much to let it?

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