President Kamala could spell trouble for Israel – but good news for Ukraine

In the two days since Joe Biden dropped his re-election bid and endorsed vice president Kamala Harris as the Democratic party nominee, much attention has been devoted to the mechanics of Biden’s decision, which close advisers or family members may have convinced him to pull out and how the entire episode will shake up the race. But with Harris the strong favourite to become the Democratic’s presidential nominee, it’s worth asking what president Harris could mean for other countries, not least the United State’s allies – and enemies.

Does Harris have a foreign policy agenda, let alone a foreign policy philosophy? It’s a difficult question to answer, because Harris is in many ways the opposite of Joe Biden on the international stage. Biden has been around for a half-century, has a huge rolodex of foreign leaders on his desk and fancies himself an international relations aficionado.