Joe Biden's foreign policy paradox

Ostensibly, Joe Biden's victory over Donald Trump in the 2020 presiden-tial elections should have placed United States international policy back on a famil-iar path. However, despite the prevalence of a highly traditional vision of US foreign policy, the Biden administration has main-tained significant continuities with the pre-vious administration, as reflected in the policy towards China and the withdrawal from Afghanistan. In part, this is due to the constraints produced by the deep divisions that exist at domestic level. This paper aims to unravel the fundamental elements of Biden's foreign policy, focusing on pos-sible ideological and doctrinal elements, strategic priorities, and any continuities and changes relative to his predecessor.