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  • 2 - US Human Rights Policy and the Trump Administration

  • Edited by Gerald L. Neuman, Harvard Law School, Massachusetts
  • Book:
    Human Rights in a Time of Populism
    Published online:
    22 April 2020
    Print publication:
    09 April 2020, pp 20-42

  • Summary

    This chapter explores the effects of the Trump presidency in human rights foreign policy. Taking into account the mixed character of U.S. foreign policy in previous decades, it provides a measured account of how the populist rhetoric of “America First” was translated into concrete actions, initially under Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, and more intensely under National Security Adviser John Bolton and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. The disorganization of the administration has left room for career officers to implement a relatively traditional human rights policy in some areas. The Trump administration has departed most significantly from past administrations in declining to embrace the core principles on which human rights policy is based. Its support of strongmen because of – not in spite of – their authoritarian qualities may leave its most distinct (and damaging) human rights legacy.