Jennifer M. Harris is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and co-author of » War by Other Means: Geoeconomics and Statecraft. » The views expressed are her own.
(CNN) Major geopolitical crises have a way of greeting US presidents soon after taking office. Nazi Germany’s withdrawal from the League of Nations in 1933, the Soviet-led construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961, the Gulf of Tonkin incident in 1964 — all were among the most daunting tests of US foreign policy in the past century, and all came less than a year into the tenures of new US administrations.
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