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GZERO World with Ian Bremmer

Biden vs Trump foreign policy: Political scientist Stephen Walt weighs in

GZERO World with Ian Bremmer

GZERO Media

International Relations, Government, Foreign Policy, Gzero World, News Commentary, Trump, News, Global Economy, Geopolitics, Politics, Ian Bremmer

4.6684 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of GZERO World Podcast, Ian Bremmer and Harvard Kennedy School Professor Stephen Walt discuss foreign policy differences between a second term for Biden or Trump on issues like China, Ukraine, and the Middle East. Walt argues that American foreign policy under a second Trump term wouldn’t be so different from the last four years under Biden. That hasn’t been Ian Bremmer’s view, to say the least. Well, that sounds like the makings of a good discussion. So let’s have it.

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0:00.0

Trump is fundamentally a nationalist, fundamentally a unilateralist, whereas Biden is very much

0:05.5

a sort of globalist or internationalist. And that's our key difference. The Biden administration

0:10.2

has tried to frame world politics as democracies versus autocracies. Trump doesn't care about that one way or the

0:17.3

other. Hello and welcome to the G0 World podcast.

0:23.2

This is where you'll find extended versions of my conversations on public television.

0:27.5

I'm Ian Bremmer, and today I am looking ahead to the November presidential election,

0:31.7

aren't we all, and asking a simple question, what do voters care about?

0:36.3

The answer, as you might expect, depends on who you ask.

0:40.1

Political strategist James Carville's famous mantra back from 1992, it's the economy stupid, has become so

0:46.5

widely accepted that I'm now embarrassed to say it again. But it wasn't always thus when pollsters

0:52.4

started asking Americans in 1948, what they viewed as the,

0:56.2

quote, most important problem facing the country, foreign policy and international security

1:01.4

issues were at the top of the agenda, and they stayed there for decades.

1:05.7

Are we now heading back to an era where foreign conflicts and conflicts over foreigners, like

1:10.3

immigration, dominate the political landscape? And how would a second term for ideolognavian? back to an era where foreign conflicts and conflicts over foreigners like immigration

1:10.8

dominate the political landscape? And how would a second term for either Biden or Trump

1:15.9

change not just the country, but the world? Joining me today to discuss all that and more is

1:21.4

Harvard Kennedy School professor Steve Walt. He's argued that American foreign policy under

1:26.2

a second Trump term wouldn't be so different

1:28.3

from the last four years under Biden, which hasn't exactly been my view.

1:32.7

So let's talk about.

1:39.3

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