All the news in Biden’s first appointments. The analyzes of Ispi and Limes
How Ispi and Limes analyzed Joe Biden's early appointments.
On January 20, 2021, President Joe Biden will take office in the White House . Meanwhile, the president-elect has begun to shape his government team. Biden chose Antony Blinken as Secretary of State, Janet Yellen , at the Treasury, Alejandro Mayorkas as Secretary of National Security, Jake Sullivan as National Security Advisor, Avril Haines as Head of National Intelligence, John Kerry Special Envoy of the White House for the Climate and National Security Council Member We have no time to waste when it comes to our national security and our foreign policy, ”Biden commented on his first round of appointments.
Biden government: back to the future
In Joe Biden's first appointments, the Institute for International Political Studies recognizes continuity with the Barack Obama administration. “Reading the names chosen by Biden for his future presidential cabinet, the impression is that the 78-year-old newly elected president has focused on guaranteed second-hand goods,” reads the analysis of the ISPI. Many of Biden's men had a notable background in the past Obama administration. Former US presidential candidate John Kerry , current climate envoy, served as secretary of state, Antony Blinken was his deputy. Avril Haines, before being appointed director of National Intelligence, was Barack Obama 's national security advisor.
An inclusive team for a cosmopolitan America
What is looming, according to ISPI, is a US government characterized by the inclusion of all differences. A good sign that comes after the Republican administration's difficulties in dealing with the street protests of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Alejandro Mayorkas will become the first immigrant and Latinos to head the Department of Homeland Security. Linda Thomas-Greenfield , Afro-American veteran of US diplomacy in several African countries, she was chosen as the new ambassador to the UN. “Biden's team is very inclusive towards the different components of the country , with an almost perfect gender representation if you also count the vice-presidency of Kamala Harris”, comment from ISPI.
According to the ISPI analyst expert on America, Mario Del Pero, Professor of International History at SciencesPo, the appointments of Joe Biden have not only a political but also a symbolic value, they would be a message to his country and to the world. “The symbology is clear: this is a cosmopolitan America, which returns to the precepts of liberal and multilateral internationalism; and it is an international America, in the pluralism and diversity that it embodies and expresses ”, writes the teacher.
The new US geopolitics: return to the center of the world
The foreign policy strategy of President Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken envisages the revival of multilateralism and reinforcing collaborations with the old continent. Blinken's personal history shovels the language of Europeanism . The US secretary of state is of Jewish origin, his stepfather is a Holocaust survivor and studied in France. The challenge of the new administration is to make the US lead the world again, at least the Western one, from a political, economic and moral point of view. Also in the election campaign Biden insisted on the need to rebuild the image of the United States abroad and to restore to Washington its authority and credibility among the nations of the world. According to Limes analysts, the new US government will be close to the state bureaucracy, available to work with federal agencies. "It will dust off the propaganda centered on democracy and human rights to pursue the goals of the superpower," writes America expert Dario Fabbri of Limes . The appointment of Kerry as envoy for the climate would have a role of economic geopolitics rather than environmental protection: "Kerry will revive the ecological rhetoric to hit Chinese and German industry".
Janet Yellen: the head of the treasury who likes the markets and the left Dem
Another notable appointment of the Biden administration is that of Janet Yellen for the role of secretary of the US Treasury. Markets have welcomed the appointment of the former Federal Reserve chairman to guard the US economy very well. Wall Street has risen to all-time highs, with the Dow Jones exceeding 30,000 points for the first time in history. The markets like Janet Yellen not only for her undoubted professionalism but also because she is considered the right woman when the stars and stripes economy needs a revival without forgetting the difficulties of workers and the unemployed. Attention to the world of work is what makes the left of the Democratic Party like her very much.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/tutte-le-novita-nelle-prime-nomine-di-biden-le-analisi-di-ispi-e-limes/ on Wed, 25 Nov 2020 08:16:43 +0000.