PERSPECTIVE GLOBAL AND REGIONAL ORDER RESTORATION OR REINVENTION? The Transatlantic Relationship under President Biden and Chancellor Scholz Leonie Klüver April 2022 Global conflicts, a shifting international order, and an ongoing pandemic pose un­precedented foreign policy challenges to Germany and the United States. In recent years, diverging interests and policy priorities strained the bilateral relationship. Yet, the newly elected Ger­man government devoted a section of its coalition agree­ment to strengthening and deepening the cooperation with the US. Similarly, Presi­dent Joe Biden’s policy ap­pears to align more strongly with Germany’s interests. What are the prospects of a reinvented transatlantic part­nership between the US and Germany?