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: Tina Margarete Freyburg
Dr. Tina Freyburg ist Professorin für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft an der Universität St.Gallen in der Schweiz. Sie erforscht internationale und europäische Politik, Demokratie und Demokratisierung sowie Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien. Mit dem PRIF ist sie durch das Forschungsnetzwerk External Democracy Promotion (EDP) verbunden. // Dr Tina Freyburg is Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of St.Gallen, Switzerland. Her work focuses comparative international and European politics, democracy and democratization as well as information and communication technologies. She is affiliated with PRIF through the Research Network External Democracy Promotion (EDP).
