RT Article
T1 The Trump administration versus human rights: executive agency or policy inertia?
JF Human rights review
VO 23
IS 3
SP 333
OP 359
A1 Sandlin, Evan W.
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1815212055
AB President Trump verbally attacked human rights in his campaign rhetoric in 2016, leading many to believe that he would undermine the role of human rights in US foreign policy as President. I examine whether or not President Trump’s anti-human rights rhetoric manifested in US foreign policy by analyzing potential changes in how human rights were considered in foreign aid allocations under the Trump Administration. While President Trump had a number of executive tools at his disposal to exert control over foreign aid allocation, he would still have had to overcome considerable bureaucratic and legislative inertia in order to implement his anti-human rights agenda in US foreign aid. I demonstrate that he was unsuccessful in overcoming this inertia, at least in the first 2 years of his Administration (the years for which data is currently available). If anything, human rights received more consideration under President Trump than under President Obama.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 355-359
K1 Trump
K1 US foreign policy
K1 foreign aid
K1 Human Rights
DO 10.1007/s12142-021-00651-z