Dysfunctional Diplomacy
The Politics of International Agreements in an Era of Partisan Polarization
Seiten
2022
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-42977-5 (ISBN)
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-42977-5 (ISBN)
This book assesses the partisan domestic politics that impact international treaties and the unilateral presidential authority that such partisanship encourages.
US diplomacy is broken. As a result, the United States sits on the sidelines as the remainder of the world writes international law dealing with a host of vexing problems. The source of the dysfunction is domestic politics. Partisan polarization has rendered the domestic treaty process unworkable. Instead, presidents rely entirely on unilateral tools to complete their agreements, making them far weaker and less legitimate. Using a mixed-methods approach, Peake assesses the politics surrounding treaty ratification and the use of unilateral authority since World War Two, with a particular focus on the twenty-first century. He employs original data from 1949 through 2020, including 1,000 treaties and more than 3,000 executive agreements. The analysis provides case studies of the domestic politics of several recent international agreements, including on climate change, Iranian nuclear weapons, security in Iraq and Afghanistan, human rights, and the law of the sea.
US diplomacy is broken. As a result, the United States sits on the sidelines as the remainder of the world writes international law dealing with a host of vexing problems. The source of the dysfunction is domestic politics. Partisan polarization has rendered the domestic treaty process unworkable. Instead, presidents rely entirely on unilateral tools to complete their agreements, making them far weaker and less legitimate. Using a mixed-methods approach, Peake assesses the politics surrounding treaty ratification and the use of unilateral authority since World War Two, with a particular focus on the twenty-first century. He employs original data from 1949 through 2020, including 1,000 treaties and more than 3,000 executive agreements. The analysis provides case studies of the domestic politics of several recent international agreements, including on climate change, Iranian nuclear weapons, security in Iraq and Afghanistan, human rights, and the law of the sea.
Jeffrey S. Peake is Professor of Political Science at Clemson University, in Clemson, South Carolina, where he teaches courses on US politics, Congress, and U.S. foreign policy.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
2 Recent Trends in Treaty Politics
3 The Effects of Partisan Polarization on Treaty Politics
4 The United States on the Outside: Multilateral Conventions
5 Executive Agreements: Implementing US Democracy
6 Weak Commitments: The Limits of Presidential Unilateralism
7 Conclusions
References
| Erscheinungsdatum | 16.12.2022 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 7 Tables, black and white; 1 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 260 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik |
| ISBN-10 | 0-367-42977-2 / 0367429772 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-367-42977-5 / 9780367429775 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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