The US government under President Donald Trump has announced a comprehensive shakeup of the US development aid agency USAID. The talk ranges from restructuring or integration into the State Department to complete closure of the organization. Immediately after the announcement, USAID funding was frozen for an initial 90 days and thousands of employees and contractors worldwide are laid off. With the end of USAID as we know it, a fundamental upheaval in international development cooperation and democracy promotion is imminent.
Author: Sonja Grimm
Dr. Sonja Grimm ist Professorin für Internationale Beziehungen und Europaforschung an der Universität Würzburg und sie forscht zu internationalem Krisenmanagement sowie zu Fragen der Demokratisierung und des Staatsaufbaus in Entwicklungs-, Schwellen-, fragilen und Postkonflikt-Ländern. Sie ist über das Forschungsnetzwerk Externe Demokratieförderung (EDP) mit dem PRIF verbunden. /// Dr Sonja Grimm is Professor for International Relations and European Studies at Würzburg University. In her research, she specializes in the field of crisis management, democratization and state-building in developing, transitioning, fragile and post-conflict contexts. She is affiliated with PRIF through the Network External Democracy Promotion (EDP).
