U.S. Foreign Policy towards the Arctic: From D. Trump’s Americacentricism to J. Biden’s Multilateralism

The author strives to predict how J. Biden’s election as the U.S. president would alternate the Arctic line of Washington’s policy in comparison with the previous administration. The analysis is focused on three key directions: military security, multilateral international cooperation and the U.S. attitude to Russia. The conclusion is that the strategic course of the U.S. policy would not be changed greatly, which is explained by the long-term national interests in the region and the wider global context. However, the author anticipates some shifts in emphases on a number of foreign policy issues, mostly concerning the climate policy, which has recently been reestablished as one of the top national priorities of the USA.