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Trumpism, development cooperation, and global (dis)order-making: decoding the New Washington Dissensus and the evolving norms of international aid

Sumner, Andy / Stephan Klingebiel
Mitarbeiter sonstige (2025)

in: Stephan Klingebiel / Andy Sumner (eds.), Development and development policy in the Trump era, Bonn: German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), 11-15

DOI: https://doi.org/10.23661/idp23.2025

This paper examines the ideological and policy shifts in US development cooperation under the second Trump administration, and their implications for the international development landscape and global order. It argues that recent US actions – epitomised by a 36-question survey of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the erasure of key development terms from federal documentation – signal a foundational challenge to international development cooperation norms. Five core principles underpinning an emerging “New Washington Dissensus” are identified: (1) dismantling global governance structures, (2) ideological policing through anti-“anti-Americanism”, (3) prioritising border security over traditional development goals, (4) rejecting climate and DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) agendas and (5) demanding direct economic returns for the United States. These principles are not merely bureaucratic adjustments but represent the construction of a “nationalist conditionality regime” – a strategic reordering of aid to serve domestic political and economic priorities.

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