emphasis on state sovereignty and thus hinder the promotion of human rights. Agreement Agreement The Trump administration imposed a growing number of tariffs on other states, including China, as part of trade war The significance of this is that it may have signalled a withdrawal by the USA from multilateral cooperation and decision making and could have encouraged other states to consider a similar state centric view whilst simultaneously weakening US moral authority A focus in the United States on ‘America First’ policies was a sign of movement away from globalisation to state self- interest which inevitably encouraged states to follow suite, focus on sovereignty and which allowed human rights violations to go unchallenged in other parts of the world Euroscepticism has grown in the EU and the UK has completed the process of leaving the European Union in order, many believe, to regain a degree of political sovereignty and abandonment of areas such as the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. less significant and regional bodies are less able to demand that member states ensure that human rights are protected. Sovereign states who appear to have withdrawn, to an extent, from regional bodies and globalisation are perceived to have more sovereign decision making power and a greater ability to ignore regional body human rights protection which suggests that human rights will inevitable be weakened. Regional bodies such as the EU, The African Union and ASEAN were committed to protecting human rights above the sovereign state level through numerous courts and central legislation Arguably states have become more willing to criticise the newly created global and regional human rights bodies with the ICC in particular, subject to a great deal of criticism from states who feel that it threatened their sovereignty and values as did the Special Tribunals Reduced influence for the courts associated with regional bodies and for the legislation connected to these regional bodies will inevitably signal a shift towards state centric decision making and an erosion of the rights and protection which these bodies had developed over time as seen with the Covid 19 restrictions imposed by sovereign states. Globalisation brought increased awareness of human rights abuses and attempts to create human rights institutions such as the ICC and Special Tribunals If we see a continued or increased backlash against globalisation and regional bodies then the influence of the courts and legislation connected to these regional bodies will wane Consequently states feel increasingly confident in rejecting universalism in human rights and so-called global courts which they feel infringe on their sovereignty such as the US with Guantanamo Bay or Burma with the plight of the Rohingya people the UK with the ECHR ruling on prisoner votes and this inevitably hinders the promotion of human rights 2022 Evaluate the view that a trend away from globalisation and regionalism would place greater emphasis on state sovereignty and thus hinder the promotion of human rights.