Despite the increase in the number of studies in International Relations using concepts from a role theory perspective, scholarship continues to assume that a state s 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 NRCs and the effects and outcomes of contestation between domestic political actors....

Despite the increase in the number of studies in International Relations using concepts from a role theory perspective, scholarship continues to assume that a state s 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 NRCs and the effects and outcomes of contestation between domestic political actors....