Joe Biden's First Year as President
Joe Biden, the first post-Trump American president, was sworn in two weeks after the assault on the US Capitol. One year later, what are we to make of the first quarter of his presidency? His report card is important, as it will help determine how the Democratic party will fare in the Congressional midterm elections in November. But more importantly for the United States and the world is this: what is the state of American democracy? Under the radar, what changes have been happening in the very decentralized American electoral system? How has the world's view of the United States been affected by the events of the last five years, and how is the Biden administration dealing with foreign and domestic crises?
Gerald Loftus' diplomatic career began in 1979 in Barbados as Vice Consul, and ended in Luxembourg in 2002, as Chargé d'Affaires of the American Embassy.
Passing through posts in Alexandria, Tunis, Muscat, Algiers, Oran, Mauritius, and London, as well as at NATO Headquarters in Brussels.
Since his retirement from the US Foreign Service, he has continued in international relations, and has organized conferences in Africa for ACSS, the Africa Center for Strategic Studies of National Defense University in
Washington. Between 2010 and 2014, he directed the Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies - TALIM - a research and conference centre. A frequent contributor to the monthly Foreign Service Journal, he is the author of Lions at the Legation & Other Stories: Two Centuries of American Diplomatic Life in Tangier (2018, Fondation Jardin Majorelle). In Brussels, he is spokesperson for Democrats Abroad Belgium.
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