The potential new US National Security Strategy (NSS) signals a major threat to civic space and the international donor environment due to its “America First” approach. The NSS prioritizes transactional deals and “authoritarian accommodation,” while explicitly aiming to “cultivate resistance” in Europe by backing ethno-nationalist parties and framing progressive civil society as “suppression of political opposition.” This strategy is expected to lead to a significant redirection or decrease in US democracy and human rights funding for CSOs across the globe, as support shifts away from liberal democratic values and towards state-centric, transactional foreign policy. Read more here.
Source: The Guardian