Tunisia-Will Joe Biden hold the global Summit for Democracy in Tunisia if he wins ?

The world is watching the countdown to see the winner of the 2020 U.S presidential race between Joe Biden and Donald Trump.

As chances point to Biden win many questions arise on the nominee policy in North Africa and the Middle East,Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center addressed the issue in a study prepared by Sarah Yerkes and Nesrine Mbarek were Arrows pointed out that North Africa will likely fall in importance, occupying “a distant fourth” place behind Europe, the Indo-Pacific, and Latin America, according to one campaign advisor.

The study stated that if Biden wins he can turn his attention to North Africa stating  “North Africa—particularly western North Africa, including Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia—is the perfect venue for Biden to make real on his commitment to reinvigorating U.S. support for the community of democracies and to engage in bottom-up as well as top-down diplomacy.

Stopping on Tunisia the writer affirms that Biden” can prioritize relationships with countries that share U.S. values over the world’s autocracies, such as Tunisia, the only democracy in the Arab world; and support groups and individuals working for democratic reform in Morocco, a country with a vibrant civil society and a longtime friend of the United States; and Algeria, a country in the midst of massive political and economic reform. Each country would offer a Biden administration a low-cost opportunity to reassert U.S. leadership, pivot towards a more values-based foreign policy, and advance key U.S. strategic interests, among them countering the rise of adversaries such as Russia and China”.

It was also explained that Tunisia is one of the largest recipients of U.S. economic and security assistance in the Middle East and North Africa and U.S. support for Tunisia’s democratic transition has remained relatively consistent over the past decade. Moreover, the Biden administration if it wins it could increase diplomatic outreach to North Africa at little to no cost, and in particular, dramatically boost the profile of Tunisia’s democratic transition. Biden has pledged to hold a global Summit for Democracy in his first year in office. The study proposes Tunisia for the summit, which will celebrate the tenth anniversary of its democratic revolution in 2021.

Source (Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center)