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Development in the Trump Era: What’s Next for Global Development Cooperation?

By Andy Sumner and Stephan Klingebiel / Development and Development Policy in the Trump Era Series

The return of Donald Trump to the White House has reignited deep uncertainty about the trajectory of global development cooperation. Long before 2025, the multilateral system was already under pressure. But Trump’s second term marks a normative rupture: the retreat of the United States not just from global leadership, but from the very principles of internationalism, multilateralism, and development solidarity it once helped to construct.

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Universalisms and their Discontents

By Brendan M. Howe

The contemporary inter-paradigm debate in Development Studies can be characterised as between advocates of a ‘universal’ global development experience (both positive and negative), and those advocating the centrality of discriminatory practices experienced by the Global South as obstacles to development. Aspirations for universality have faced the challenges and charges of neocolonialism, racism, cultural relativism, exceptionalism, Eurocentricism, and exclusion.

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Trumpist Before it was Cool: How the Czech Far Right Drove Aid Cuts from Fringe to Mainstream

By Ondřej Horký-Hlucháň

The current dismantling of the post-war aid system owes a lot to far-right politicians and political parties, with Donald Trump as the current leader of the pack. The Finns Party discussed in this EADI Blog is a prime example of their impact once they secure minister seats. The Czech case, however, shows that significant aid cuts can be easily initiated from a few parliamentary benches.

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Navigating the Tipping Point: Four Futures for Global Development Cooperation

By Stephan Klingebiel and Andy Sumner / Development and Development Policy in the Trump Era Series

The global system of development cooperation is in a state of flux. In a new policy brief we discuss how and why the very foundations of international aid and development are being shaken by geopolitical shifts, contested norms, and institutional upheaval. The brief argues that the crisis is not a mere cyclical downturn, or nor is it only about money, but a fundamental reordering of the global development landscape. In short, a “tipping point” in the sense of a dramatic moment when incremental changes coalesce into a transformative shift, for better or worse, is in the offing. We ask what might come next.

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Green Trade Barriers? Circular Economy, Trade, and the Future of the Global South

By Pınar Yardımcı

In recent years, redesigning economic growth to reduce pressures on ecosystems has become central to sustainable development policies. The circular economy (CE) has emerged as a vital framework that not only aims to minimize waste and optimize resource efficiency but also promises to decouple economic growth from environmental degradation.

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