Governance

The inauguration of U.S. President Joe Biden has brought a new wave of hope for reinvigorating the transatlantic relationship. The EU has already capitalized on this enthusiasm by offering fresh proposals for EU-U.S. collaboration while raising its ambitions to boost its international role and shape global policies.

How alignment and divergence play out across the Atlantic in the coming months will have implications for all major global challenges, from climate change and the coronavirus pandemic to security and economic recovery.

Whoever speaks out against Trump is at risk of losing their job, and that is exactly what the ex-President has previously threatened. Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook discusses how Trump has been able to maintain power [translated from German; interview in German].

The inauguration of Joe Biden was marked by strict security requirements and COVID-19 protocols, but it still proceeded smoothly. Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook sums up the most important challenges now awaiting the 46th U.S. president.  [translated from German; interview in German]

Joe Biden will be sworn in as the 46th President of the United States on Wednesday. He inherits a deeply divided country where one in ten people is starving. How can he get America back on its feet? Christian Wildt talks about this with the German-American political scientist Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook. [translated from German; in German]

Joe Biden wants to overcome the division of the country as the new US president. "Biden will not win certain groups. But he has to be able to live with that. He has to make politics for the winnable middle," says political scientist Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook. [translated from German; in German]

After Joe Biden is sworn in as the next President, he wants to reverse a number of measures taken by his predecessor Donald Trump. Will Biden manage to bring the country back to normal? Alexander Kähler discusses with Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson (KCRW Berlin), Christoph von Marschall (Der Tagesspiegel), Majid Sattar (FAZ Washington) and Cathryn Clüver-Ashbrook (political scientist Harvard Kennedy School). [translated from German; interview in German]

On Wednesday, Joe Biden will be sworn in as the President of a nation at a pivotal moment, and the world will be watching because all democracies are in this moment together.

The view from Biden's podium at the United States Capitol, looking down over Washington DC's National Mall, will not be pretty.

Storming the Capitol, shaking democracy - how dangerous are the days ahead of the transition of power for the United States? And even if Trump leaves the Oval Office, will he remain an eternal divider? Does the poison of his lies continue to have an effect in America, and does it perhaps continue to serve as a model for populists abroad? [translated from German, interview in German]

Three days before Joe Biden's inauguration as the new US Presiden, the fear of another escalation of violence is great. How threatened is the transition of power? Political scientist Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook and Washington reporter Alica Jung weigh in. [translated from German; interview in German]

The presidency of Donald Trump has left such a wretched stench in Europe that it's hard to see how, even in four years, Joe Biden could possibly get America's most important alliance back on track.