IJPSD

ISSN: 2360-784X

 International Journal of Political Science and Development
 

International Journal of Political Science and Development

Vol. 7(4), pp. 150-160, June, 2019. 

DOI: 10.14662/IJPSD2019.020

ISSN: 2360-784X

Research

Democracy and Environment: Trump’s Presidency Core Challenges on Climate Change with Specific Emphasis on the Horn of Africa

Dawit Mezgebe Tsegaye

Department of Civics and Ethical Studies,  College of Social Sciences & Humanities, Dilla University,  P.O. Box 419,  Dilla,  SNNPRS, Ethiopia. E-Mail: dawitmezgebe@gmail.com

Accepted 12 May June 2019

Historically the year 2016 is very unique and surprising in the United States of America’s politics mainly because of the rise of a business man who has no experience in holding elected office, i.e., the election of Donald J. Trump to be the 45^th US President. This study has the major objective of forwarding its findings on the key and core challenges posed on the Horn of Africa’s region political, and social reality that are exacerbated as a result of Trump’s election and his administration’s persuasion of wrong policies with regard to the serious challenges and threats from the Global Climatic Change. Methodologically, this study employed and applied qualitative approach which is purely exploratory, explanatory and descriptive by collecting both qualitative and quantitative data. The major findings of this research are explained from the three levels of analysis of foreign policy where the Trump’s election and his administration’s several actors and factors are negatively taking part on exacerbating the existing challenges of the climate change globally in general and the Horn of Africa in particular. Politically global climate change is nurturing, fuelling and expanding the magnitude of the conflicts, at times sparking them as well; it also negatively affects politics in the region by exacerbating the existing poor governance, corruption, environmental degradation, and widening poverty among other issues. Climate change is severely and negatively affecting resource availability and it has a direct correlation to food shortage which is fuelling political disputes, ethnic tension, and civil unrest. Socially, impoverishment and human insecurity are expanding hugely as a result of climate change directly contributing for the wide spread of diseases, rapid urbanization, internal displacement, massive migration, and multiple types of crimes etc…

Key words: Trump’s Presidency, the Horn of Africa, levels of analysis of, foreign policy, the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, and the core political and social, challenges in the Horn of Africa.

Cite this article as: Dawit, MT (2019). Democracy and Environment: Trump’s Presidency Core Challenges on Climate Change with Specific Emphasis on the Horn of Africa. Int. J. Polit. Sci. Develop. 7(4) 150-160