To Defend Its Interests at Home and Abroad, America Must Vote Trump Out

To Defend Its Interests at Home and Abroad, America Must Vote Trump Out
Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks in Cincinnati, Ohio, Oct. 12, 2020 (AP photo by Carolyn Kaster).

Since World Politics Review began publishing 14 years ago, we have refrained from political endorsements. This is in keeping with our mission, which states that we are “unbeholden to any partisan affiliation or party allegiance.”

At the same time, nonpartisan does not mean disinterested. Over the past 14 years, we have published articles defending and supporting the foreign policy decisions of Republican and Democratic administrations alike. But in so doing, we have always referred to a certain vision of international politics and global order as our standard for judgment. As our mission statement also puts it, WPR seeks to strike a balance between realism and liberal internationalism, “combining an effort to see the world as it is with a preference for diplomacy and multilateralism in support of a rules- and norms-based global order.”

By any criteria, the choice in next month’s presidential election is a very clear one between a candidate who holds that vision in contempt and another who, however imperfectly, defends it.

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