Domestic Role Contestation, Foreign Policy, and International... - 9781138653801

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Domestic Role Contestation, Foreign Policy, and International RelationsAuthor(s): Cristian Cantir, Juliet Kaarbo\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138653801, 978-1138653801\nSynopsis\nDespite 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.\n\nCristian 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 illu.