Biden’s won. What next?

Despite the sense of relief at Biden’s victory, the underlying sources of tensions that dominated the world before the election will continue to persist.

A palpable sense of relief has overtaken the world with the election of Joe Biden as the new American President. There is a belief that the Donald Trump presidency was an aberration, and that under Biden the US can rightfully regain what it had lost in the four years since 2016. Trump’s disorderly foreign policy has made the world lose trust in multilateralism and American leadership, and coupled with a domestic policy based on exclusion and white majoritarianism, Trump’s America, many hope, has been consigned to the bin. Biden’s calls to rejoin the Paris Agreement has encouraged those who believe that mitigating climate change has to be the number one goal for any ruler in the 21st century.