Foreign Affairs - 01 2021

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JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2021

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january/february 2021 • volume 100 • number 1 • can america recover?

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Can
America
Recover?

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January/February 2021

Volume 100, Number 1

CAN AMERICA RECOVER?

The Can-Do Power
10
America’s Advantage and Biden’s Chance
Samantha Power

The Crisis Opportunity
25
What It Will Take to Build Back a Better Economy
Jason Furman

To Stop a Pandemic
36
A Better Approach to Global Health Security
Jennifer Nuzzo

The Reconstruction of America
44
Justice, Power, and the Civil War’s Unfnished Business
David W. Blight

C OV E R : B R IA N S TAU F F E R

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Laura Rosenberger on
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Justin E. H. Smith on
Emmanuel Macron’s
symbolic presidency.

Joaquin Castro on
building a better
State Department.

ESSAYS

The Party That Failed
78
An Insider Breaks With Beijing
Cai Xia

How to Save Democracy From Technology
98
Ending Big Tech’s Information Monopoly
Francis Fukuyama, Barak Richman, and Ashish Goel

The Arab Uprisings Never Ended
111
The Enduring Struggle to Remake the Middle East
Marc Lynch

The End of the Wilsonian Era
123
Why Liberal Internationalism Failed
Walter Russell Mead

Monopoly Versus Democracy
52
How to End a Gilded Age
Zephyr Teachout

Desperate Times, Desperate Measures
60
The Lessons of the New Deal
Meg Jacobs

Cleaning House
68
Watergate and the Limits of Reform
John A. Lawrence

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January/February 2021

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Latin America’s Lost Decades
138
The Toll of Inequality in the Age of COVID-19
Luis Alberto Moreno

Protection Without Protectionism
150
Getting Industrial Policy Right
Shannon K. O’Neil

The World China Wants
161
How Power Will—and Won’t—Reshape Chinese Ambitions
Rana Mitter

REVIEWS & RESPONSES

The Meddlers
176
Moscow’s and Washington’s Covert Campaigns
Angela Stent

The Spanish Miracle
183
Democracy’s Triumph Over Tyranny and Corruption
Omar G. Encarnación

Recent Books
189

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January/February 2021 · Volume 100, Number 1

Published by the Council on Foreign Relations

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