Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/327981 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Series/Report no.: 
IDOS Discussion Paper No. 29/2025
Publisher: 
German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper applies the concepts and theories of "policy norms" to the disruptive effects of the second Trump administration on global development cooperation. We argue that recent US actions represent more than a domestic political shift. They signal a tipping point to longstanding norms of the development cooperation system and specifically multilateralism as well as notions of global solidarity. This paper's objective is to explain how, why and through which political and institutional mechanisms policy norms break down or are reconstituted in global development cooperation. It uses the current moment as a case study of "norm antipreneurship", potentially even "norm imperialism" illustrating the political and institutional strategies through which policy norms are currently been contested, dismantled or displaced. This paper addresses a set of questions: (i) What are the core mechanisms through which development cooperation norms are formed, contested and fragmented? (ii) How is the second Trump administration seeking to reshape normative regimes in development cooperation? (iii) What research agenda is needed to understand norm change in a multipolar and contested development cooperation landscape?
Subjects: 
development cooperation
norm contestation
policy norms
global (dis)order
nationalist conditionality regime
New Washington Dissensus
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ISBN: 
978-3-96021-274-4
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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