Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy: US Pivot to Asia

Btari Istigfarrah P. P., I. Gede Wahyu Wicaksana

2018

Abstract

In both terms of Barack Obama’s Administration, United States of America has focused to intensify its relations with the Asia-Pacific. This foreign policy is considered as an effort to support the United States in obtaining its national interest. However to implement this policy, the United States needed to make adjustments from two levels, international and domestic politics. There are many actors in the dynamic of domestic politics that contributed and constrained the foreign policy to bring an optimum result. Many views which are non-unitary because of the diverse domestic actors were involved in the United States’ foreign policy making. In the United States, the foreign policy got influenced by the dynamics of Congress, the public, and the media. United States policy to pivot to the Asia-Pacific region is affected by several biased party interests in the Congress. Barack Obama as the candidate of one of the dominant party in the United States, the Democratic Party, of course, will get a certain response from the Republican Party as the opposition. When those non-unitary domestic actors determined the foreign policy, sometimes cross-interests and negotiation might happen. Not only the Congress, there are many other domestic actors that are trying to put their group interests into the government’s consideration. The dynamics of domestic politics can be one of the factors that affected the Asia-Pacific pivot policy of the United States in Obama’s Administration.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

P. B. and Wicaksana I. (2018). Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy: US Pivot to Asia. In Proceedings of Airlangga Conference on International Relations - Volume 1: ACIR, ISBN 978-989-758-493-0, pages 448-454. DOI: 10.5220/0010278600002309

in Bibtex Style

@conference{acir18,
author={Btari Istigfarrah P. P. and I. Gede Wahyu Wicaksana},
title={Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy: US Pivot to Asia},
booktitle={Proceedings of Airlangga Conference on International Relations - Volume 1: ACIR,},
year={2018},
pages={448-454},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010278600002309},
isbn={978-989-758-493-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of Airlangga Conference on International Relations - Volume 1: ACIR,
TI - Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy: US Pivot to Asia
SN - 978-989-758-493-0
AU - P. B.
AU - Wicaksana I.
PY - 2018
SP - 448
EP - 454
DO - 10.5220/0010278600002309