United States Foreign Aid and Multilateralism Under the Trump Presidency

Abstract: This article addresses two key questions concerning US foreign aid under the 45th US President, Donald Trump (2017–21): Did the Trump administration radically restructure the foreign aid apparatus of the US government amid the recent reemergence of China as a key state actor in international development and global governance? If so, how and under which conditions did the US, as the world’s largest foreign aid donor, deal with the new challenges posed by the expanding global reach of Chinese foreign aid and diplomacy? The core objective here is to look back at the Trump administration, particularly in its role in the US foreign aid apparatus vis-à-vis the reemergence of China as a global power and the decline of US influence abroad. This article maintains that the dominance of the US in the international development sector was under serious threat from two principal challenges: (1) the lack of coherent and credible strategy from the Trump administration amid the rapidly increasing influence of China as an aid donor country; and the (2) the declining legitimacy of the US a foreign aid donor due to the exclusionary and anti-globalization discourses of Trump vis-à-vis the perceived the decline of American power.

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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
United States Foreign Aid and Multilateralism Under the Trump Presidency ; volume:17 ; number:1 ; year:2022 ; pages:45-69 ; extent:25
New global studies ; 17, Heft 1 (2022), 45-69 (gesamt 25)

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DOI
10.1515/ngs-2021-0030
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2023042614052559632494
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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