December 30, 2023
2024 will be a tough foreign policy year for Joe Biden

In the United States, presidential elections are rarely won or lost on foreign policy. Domestic matters like the economy, crime, and the overall state of the country are far more relevant to candidates. Even so, incumbents can’t allow the world to degenerate in front of them. Just ask Jimmy Carter, whose 1980 campaign against challenger Ronald Reagan shriveled away in part to the lingering Iranian hostage crisis.
As Joe Biden looks to 2024, his administration is juggling a cornucopia of conflicts, challenges and crises. Whether events outside America’s borders will help or hurt him at the polls next November is anyone’s guess. But there is a sense that the next year could be pivotal both for the status of these conflict as well as for Biden’s capacity to help resolve them.
Author

Daniel
DePetris
Fellow
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