Cristian Cantir - Domestic Role Contestation, Foreign Policy, and International Relations

Cantir and Kaarbo assemble in this volume nine thoughtful case studies of national role conflict in advanced democracies, constituting the first major study of role contestation among political elites and between elites and the general public. This is a key contribution to the burgeoning literature applying role theory to the study of foreign policy, and one that offers valuable insights into a deeply controversial political issue: as citizens, what role do we wish for our country to play in the world?

Paul Kowert, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA

Despite the increase in the number of studies in International Relations using concepts from a role theory perspective, scholarship continues to assume that a states own expectations of what role it should play on the world stage is shared among domestic political actors.

Cristian Cantir and Juliet Kaarbo have gathered a leading team of internationally distinguished International Relations scholars to draw on decades of research in Foreign Policy Analysis to explore points of internal contestation of national role conceptions (NRCs) and the effects and outcomes of contestation between domestic political actors. Nine detailed comparative case studies have been selected for the purpose of theoretical exploration, with an eye to illustrating the relevance of role contestation in a diversity of settings, including variation in period, geographic area, unit of analysis, and aspects of the domestic political process.

This edited book includes a number of pioneering insights into how the domestic political process can have a crucial effect on how a country behaves at the global level.

Cristian Cantir is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Oakland University in Michigan, USA. Some of his research interests include the domestic determinants of foreign policy behavior, the diplomatic activities of substate governments, role theory, and historical approaches to IR.

Juliet Kaarbo is Professor of International Relations with a Chair in Foreign Policy at the University of Edinburgh, UK. She is codirector of Edinburghs Centre for Security Research. Her research focuses on political psychology, leadership and decision making, group dynamics, foreign policy analysis and theory, parliamentary political systems, and national roles.

Role Theory and International Relations

Edited by Cameron G. Thies, Arizona State University, and Juliet Kaarbo, University of Edinburgh

The Role Theory and International Relations Series aspires to attract and publish the latest and best research integrating knowledge in the field of international relations with role theory. This aspiration cuts across a wide swath of subfields, including foreign policy analysis, peace and security studies, international political economy, diplomatic studies, and international organization. While each of these subfields of study is presently organized as an island of theory, this series intends to integrate their signature phenomena within a system of knowledge, a theory complex, or an alliance among different subfields. This series showcases the ability of role theory to generate useful theoretical insights on its own or in combination with existing theories across these traditional subfields. Role theorys conceptual repertoire, plus its ability to span multiple levels of analyses and the major metatheoretical divides in the discipline, positions it to be an important integrative force in the study of international relations.

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States, Leaders, and the Microfoundations of Behavioral International Relations

Edited by Stephen G. Walker, Akan Malici, and Mark Schafer

2The United States, Israel, and the Search for International Order

Socializing States

Cameron G. Thies

3Role Theory and the Cognitive Architecture of British Appeasement Decisions

Symbolic and Strategic Interaction in World Politics

Stephen G. Walker

4Environmental Politics and Foreign Policy Decision Making in Latin America

Ratifying the Kyoto Protocol

Amy Below

5Chinas International Roles

Edited by Sebastian Harnisch, Sebastian Bersick, and Jrn-Carsten Gottwald

6Domestic Role Contestation, Foreign Policy, and International Relations

Edited by Cristian Cantir and Juliet Kaarbo

Edited by Cristian Cantir
and Juliet Kaarbo

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Names: Cantir, Cristian, editor, author. | Kaarbo, Juliet, editor, author.

Title: Domestic role contestation, foreign policy, and international relations / edited by Cristian Cantir and Juliet Kaarbo.

Description: New York, NY : Routledge, 2016. | Series: Role theory and international relations ; 7 | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015044121 | ISBN 9781138653801 (hbk) | ISBN 9781138653818 (pbk) | ISBN 9781315623580 (ebk)

Subjects: LCSH: International relationsPolitical aspectsCase studies. | International relationsDecision makingCase studies. | International relationsPublic opinionCase studies. | World politics20th centuryCase studies. | World politics21st centuryCase studies.

Classification: LCC JZ1305 .D66 2016 | DDC 327.101dc23

LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015044121

ISBN: 978-1-138-65380-1 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-138-65381-8 (pbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-62358-0 (ebk)

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Ryan Beasley is a senior teaching fellow at the University of St. Andrews, specializing in foreign policy theory and political psychology. His research focuses on problem representations, dissonance, group decision making, coalition cabinets, and role theory. He has published work in International Studies Quarterly, Political Psychology, Foreign Policy Analysis, and