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USA:s “nya” roll i världen: En studie om USA:s förändrade syn på Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) under Barack Obama och Donald Trump

Huynh, Maggie LU (2020) STVK02 20201
Department of Political Science
Abstract
The United States has for decades conceived of itself as a world leader and maintained an outward-facing, active foreign policy as a result. However, under President Trump, the conception of the U.S. as the arbiter of world affairs has experienced a reversal and the U.S. is returning to an isolationist mindset. Emblematic of this reversal is the changing U.S. stance toward the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), an agreement which was to create the largest free-trade area in the world. Under the Obama administration, the U.S. led the way in negotiating the TPP. However, Trump left the TPP negotiations on his first day as president. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to explain the U.S. relationship to the TPP based on Obama’s and Trump’s... (More)
The United States has for decades conceived of itself as a world leader and maintained an outward-facing, active foreign policy as a result. However, under President Trump, the conception of the U.S. as the arbiter of world affairs has experienced a reversal and the U.S. is returning to an isolationist mindset. Emblematic of this reversal is the changing U.S. stance toward the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), an agreement which was to create the largest free-trade area in the world. Under the Obama administration, the U.S. led the way in negotiating the TPP. However, Trump left the TPP negotiations on his first day as president. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to explain the U.S. relationship to the TPP based on Obama’s and Trump’s national role conception and how this change has affected the U.S. role in the world. For this qualitative case study, I use a theory consuming method with role conception as the chosen theory. In short, role conception argues that a state can have one or multiple national roles that affect the state’s behavior and is partly dependent on the beliefs of the country’s decision-makers. The conclusion of this paper is that Obama and Trump had two different role conceptions about the U.S. – one internationalist and one isolationist. Therefore, I draw the conclusion that under Trump the U.S.’s role conception has changed and is swinging toward isolationism for the first time since 1945. (Less)
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author
Huynh, Maggie LU
supervisor
organization
course
STVK02 20201
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
USA, Trans-Pacific Partnership, TPP, Obama, Trump, role conception, role theory
language
Swedish
id
9006608
date added to LUP
2020-09-23 11:03:29
date last changed
2020-09-23 11:03:29
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  abstract     = {{The United States has for decades conceived of itself as a world leader and maintained an outward-facing, active foreign policy as a result. However, under President Trump, the conception of the U.S. as the arbiter of world affairs has experienced a reversal and the U.S. is returning to an isolationist mindset. Emblematic of this reversal is the changing U.S. stance toward the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), an agreement which was to create the largest free-trade area in the world. Under the Obama administration, the U.S. led the way in negotiating the TPP. However, Trump left the TPP negotiations on his first day as president. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to explain the U.S. relationship to the TPP based on Obama’s and Trump’s national role conception and how this change has affected the U.S. role in the world. For this qualitative case study, I use a theory consuming method with role conception as the chosen theory. In short, role conception argues that a state can have one or multiple national roles that affect the state’s behavior and is partly dependent on the beliefs of the country’s decision-makers. The conclusion of this paper is that Obama and Trump had two different role conceptions about the U.S. – one internationalist and one isolationist. Therefore, I draw the conclusion that under Trump the U.S.’s role conception has changed and is swinging toward isolationism for the first time since 1945.}},
  author       = {{Huynh, Maggie}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{USA:s “nya” roll i världen: En studie om USA:s förändrade syn på Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) under Barack Obama och Donald Trump}},
  year         = {{2020}},
}