Dysfunctional Diplomacy
Dysfunctional Diplomacy US diplomacy is broken. The source of the dysfunction is domestic politics. As a result, the United States sits on the sidelines as the remainder of the world writes…
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Dysfunctional Diplomacy
US diplomacy is broken. The source of the dysfunction is domestic politics. 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.
Instead, presidents rely entirely on unilateral tools to complete their agreements, making them far weaker and less legitimate. Partisan polarization has rendered the domestic treaty process unworkable. 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