Threats and risks to the US security in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: reflection on the American society. L.N. GARUSOVA

Abstract

Threats and risks to the US security in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: reflection on the American society. L.N. GARUSOVA (Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography of the Peoples of the Far East, FEB RAS, Vladivostok; Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok).

This article analyzes the relationship and correlation of US foreign and domestic policy with public reflection on it. Through the course of the research, the peculiarities of perception of the American society and its elite towards traditional and new threats to national and international security were revealed. The issues of COVID-19 influence on the economy, electoral process and foreign policy of the United States, the growing role of China in regional and international relations, problems of the American world leadership, challenges of international terrorism, etc. are considered. Special attention was paid to the ineffective “anti-epidemic” strategy of Trump, which affected the results of the presidential election on November 3, 2020. President-elect Biden considers the main task of his administration to fight the COVID-19 pandemic and sees it as an opportunity to strengthen the US leadership status in the world. The connection between official foreign policy doctrines and the opinion of American citizens was found out. Washington’s active foreign policy and the US claims to become a world leader, over the past decades are largely due to the approval of this position by the American society itself.