Foreign Affairs Challenges, Priorities, and Policies

Abstract

This analysis concludes that the new administration will face greater and more complex difficulties than any of its predecessors. Consequently, setting priorities will be essential to managing the U.S. role in the new global environment. Just as the thinking underlining the policy recommendations proposed in this article has led to identifying a number of key priorities and approaches to dealing with some problems in new and different ways, it reflects the understanding that although analysts and policymakers still tend to think in terms of geography in determining priorities, functional issues and therefore functional priorities are rapidly moving to take their place, requiring the United States to develop different ways of thinking.