Jeffrey Sachs: US FOREIGN POLICY AFTER THE MID TERM ELECTIONS

Against a background of an international climate of heightened  tensions, an unprecedented act of military aggression by Russia against  Ukraine, many unresolved issues in the US relationship to China, the Mid  Term Election of November 2022 has altered the domestic political  landscape in the US.  Foreign policy mainly is in the domain of the  President. Nevertheless, the question whether and to what extent the  outcome of the election can impact on foreign policy in general and on  the President’s capability to shape it needs to be explored

Jeffrey D. Sachs is a world-renowned economics  professor, bestselling author, innovative educator, and global leader in  sustainable development. He serves as the Director of the Center for  Sustainable Development at Columbia University. He is also President of  the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, a commissioner of the  UN Broadband Commission for Development, and an SDG Advocate for UN  Secretary General Antonio Guterres. From 2001-18, Sachs served as  Special Advisor to UN Secretaries-General Kofi Annan (2001-7), Ban  Ki-moon (2008-16), and António Guterres (2017-18). Sachs has authored  and edited numerous books, most recently A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism (2018), and The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions (2020).

Eva Nowotny, Board Member of Bruno Kreisky Forum, Amb. ret., Chair of the Vienna University Board