Unpacking ego in role theory: vertical and horizontal role contestation and foreign policy -- Role contestation in the July 1914 crisis: the British and French cases -- Active independent or faithful ally? The domestic contestation of national role conceptions in Australia after World War II -- Role theory and Japanese security policy -- Contesting Belgium's role in development cooperation -- Domestic sources of changing Turkish foreign policy towards the MENA during the 2010s: a role theoretic approach -- Intervention, domestic contestation and Britain's national role conceptions -- Belief systems and foreign policy roles: role contestation in U.S. foreign policy decisions -- To be or not to be a state? Role contestation in the debate over Scottish independence -- Multilevel role contestation: the EU in the Libyan crisis -- Agents in structures: insights from cases of internal role contestation

1. International relations -- Political aspects
2. International relations -- Decision making
3. International relations -- Public opinion
4. World politics -- 20th century
5. World politics -- 21st century