The Trump Administration's Efforts to Redefine Human Rights Echoes Those of the Reagan Administration

The Trump administration will not be remembered for its commitment to human rights, but it did oversee an attempt to dramatically redefine the U.S. government’s conceptualization of human rights. In doing so it followed the path of several previous administrations, including the Reagan administration, which formulated a narrow definition to facilitate a so-called conservative human rights policy in the 1980s.

Read the full blog post from Cold War Research Network 28 January 2021.