U.S. Global Leadership Role and Domestic Polarization: A Role Theory Approach

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In this book Gordon Friedrichs offers a pioneering insight into the implications of domestic polarization for U.S. foreign policymaking and the exercise of America’s international leadership role. Through a mixed-method design and a rich dataset consisting of polarization data, congressional debates and letters, as well as co-sponsorship coalitions, Friedrichs applies role theory to analyze three polarization effects for U.S. leadership role-taking: a sorting effect, a partisan warfare, and an institutional corrosion effect. These effects are deployed in two comparative case studies: The Iran nuclear crisis as well as the negotiations of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement. Friedrichs effectively exposes the drivers of polarization and how this extreme divergence has translated into partisan warfare as well as institutional corrosion, affecting direction and performance of the U.S. global leadership role. Through advancing role theory beyond other studies and developing the concept of "diagonal contestation" as a mechanism that allows us to locate polarization within a "two-level role game" between agent and structure, U.S. Global Leadership Role and Domestic Polarization is a rich resource for scholars of international relations, foreign policy analysis, American government and polarization. Cover Endorsement Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of contents Figures Acknowledgements Acronyms 1 Polarized at Home, Bound to Lead Abroad The Sources and Stability of U.S. Leadership in International Politics Role Theory and the Study of U.S. Global Leadership Polarization and the Domestic Politics of U.S. Global Leadership Main Outline of the Book Notes Literature 2 Role Theory and International Leadership: A Two-Level Role Game Specifying International Leadership Roles Diagonal Role Contestation: Domestic Institutions and Political Ideologies Congress’s Roles and Contestation of Institutional Structures The Consequences of Diagonal Role Contestation for International Role-Taking The Origins and Agents of Role Conceptions and Diagonal Role Contestation The Ideological Sources of America’s Global Role Moral Leadership: A Liberal Version of America’s Global Role Leadership by Manifest Destiny: A Conservative Version of America’s Global Role Leadership by the People, for the People: A Libertarian Version of America’s Global Role Reactionist Leadership: A Populist Version of America’s Global Role Investigating the Polarization of U.S. Global Leadership: A Multi-method Research Design Notes Literature 3 The U.S. Leadership Role in Nuclear Nonproliferation The Emergence of the Iran Nuclear Crisis and International Role Contestation of U.S. Leadership The Obama Administration and U.S. Leadership of International Diplomacy U.S. Leadership Change and the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action Notes Literature 4 The Role of Congress and Domestic Contestation of U.S. Leadership in the Iran Nuclear Crisis Phase I: Congress’s Advocate Role of U.S. Sanctions Enforcement and Role Commensurability Phase II: Sorting, Partisan Warfare, and Domestic Contestation of U.S. Leadership Congressional Deliberation of the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act and Intra-Role Conflict Congressional Deliberation of the JCPOA and Inter-Role Conflict Coping with Inter-Role Conflict: Executive Attention Deployment and Institutional Corrosion Phase III: Inter-Role Conflict in the Post-JCPOA Period Phase IV: The Trump Administration and Imposition of U.S. Leadership Domestic Role Contestation International Role Contestation Notes Literature References for Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act debate References for JCPOA debate References for Congressional reports 5 The U.S. Leadership Role in Global Trade The Domestic Breakup of Bipartisanship Consensus for U.S. Trade Leadership The Evolution of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement: Domestic and International Role Expectations Notes Literature 6 Domestic Contestation of U.S. Trade Leadership: The Negotiation and (Failed) Implementation of the Transpacific ... Phase I: The Sorting of National Role Conceptions and Domestic Contestation of U.S. Leadership Role-taking under TPP Tariff Reductions on Trade in Goods and Services Financial Services, Currency Manipulation, and Government Procurement Intellectual Property Rights Regulation Foreign Direct Investment and Investor-State Dispute Settlement Procedures Labor and Environment Protection Rules of Origin The Obama Administration and the Compartmentalization of Domestic and International Role Expectations Phase II: Congressional Role-taking during the Negotiation and Implementation of the TPP Debating TPA-2015: The Sorting of Role Conceptions of U.S. Trade Leadership The Trump Administration and U.S. Withdrawal from TPP The Trump Effect on Domestic Contestation and Congress Role International Contestation and Counter-Roles in the Post-TPP Era Notes Literature References for TPA/TPP debate 7 Conclusion Appendix Index