Jordan Tama
Provost Associate Professor
School of International Service
American University
 

Special Issues

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Gordon Friedrichs and Jordan Tama, Guest Editors, Polarization and U.S. Foreign Policy: Ideas, Institutions, and Implications, Special Issue of International Politics (Forthcoming)

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Scholarly Journal Articles

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Ashrakat Elshehawy, Nikolay Marinov, Federico Nanni, and Jordan Tama, “SASCAT: Natural Language Processing Approach to the Study of Economic Sanctions,” Journal of Peace Research (Forthcoming)
 

Gordon Friedrichs and Jordan Tama, “Polarization and U.S. Foreign Policy: Key Debates and New Findings,” Polarization and U.S. Foreign Policy: Ideas, Institutions, and Implications, Special Issue of International Politics (2021 online; Forthcoming in print)

James D. Bryan and Jordan Tama, “The Prevalence of Bipartisanship in U.S. Foreign Policy: An Analysis of Important Congressional Votes,” International Politics, Special Issue: Polarization and U.S. Foreign Policy: Ideas, Institutions, and Implications (2022 online; Forthcoming in print)

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Jordan Tama, "Forcing the President's Hand: How the U.S. Congress Shapes Foreign Policy Through Sanctions Legislation," Foreign Policy Analysis 16, 3 (2020): 397-416

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Joshua Busby, Craig Kafura, Jonathan Monten, and Jordan Tama, "Multilateralism and the Use of Force: Experimental Evidence on the Views of Foreign Policy Elites," Foreign Policy Analysis 16, 1 (2020): 118-129

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Jordan Tama, "Tradeoffs in Defense Strategic Planning: Lessons from the U.S. Quadrennial Defense Review," Defence Studies, Special Issue: Defence Planning as Strategic Fact 18, 3 (2018): 279-301 

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Jordan Tama, "How an Agency's Responsibilities and Political Context Shape Government Strategic Reviews," Public Management Review, Special Issue: Toward A More Strategic View of Strategic Planning Research 20, 3 (2018): 377-396 

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Jordan Tama, “The Politics of Strategy: Why Government Agencies Conduct Major Strategic Reviews,” Journal of Public Policy 37, 1 (2017): 27-54

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Jordan Tama, “Independent Commissions as Settings for Civil-Military Deliberation: The Case of Women in the Military,” Armed Forces and Society 42, 2 (2016): 407-426

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Jordan Tama, “Does Strategic Planning Matter? The Outcomes of U.S. National Security Reviews,” Political Science Quarterly 130, 4 (2015-16): 735-65

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Jordan Tama, “Crises, Commissions, and Reform: The Impact of Blue-Ribbon Panels,” Political Research Quarterly 67, 1 (2014):152-164

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Jordan Tama, “From Private Consultation to Public Crusade: Assessing Eisenhower’s Legislative Strategies on Foreign Policy,” Congress and the Presidency 40, 1 (2013): 41-60

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Jordan Tama, “The Power and Limitations of Commissions: The Iraq Study Group, Bush,  Obama, and Congress,” Presidential Studies Quarterly 41, 1 (2011): 135-155

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Robert M. Hathaway and Jordan Tama, “The U.S. Congress and North Korea during the Clinton  Years: Talk Tough, Carry a Small Stick,” Asian Survey 44, 5 (2004):  711-733

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Other Scholarly Publications

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Jordan Tama, “Anti-Presidential Bipartisanship in Foreign Policy in the Trump Era,” in Ralph G. Carter and James M. Scott, editors, Congress and U.S. Foreign Policy: Activism, Assertiveness and Acquiescence in a Polarized Era (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021)

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Jordan Tama, "The Multiple Forms of Bipartisanship: Political Alignments in US Foreign Policy," Social Science Research Council's Democracy Papers series (2018)
 

Shoon Murray and Jordan Tama, "U.S. Foreign Policymaking and National Security," in Derek S. Reveron, Nicholas K. Gvosdev, and John A. Cloud, editors, The Oxford Handbook of U.S. National Security (Oxford University Press, 2018)

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Jordan Tama, "Foreign and Security Policy," in Gillian Peele, Christopher J. Bailey, Bruce E. Cain, and B. Guy Peters, editors, Developments in American Politics, Eighth Edition (Palgrave, 2018)

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Dina Smeltz, Craig Kafura, Joshua W. Busby, Jonathan Monten, and Jordan Tama, "Foreign Policy Beliefs Among Leaders and the Public," in James M. McCormick, editor, The Domestic Sources of American Foreign Policy: Insights and Evidence, Seventh Edition (Rowman and Littlefield, 2018)

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Jordan Tama, “The Political, Policy, and Oversight Roles of Congressional Defense Commissions,” in Colton C. Campbell and David P. Auerswald, editors, Congress and Civil-Military Relations (Georgetown University Press, 2015), 53-70
 

Jordan Tama, "Bipartisanship in a Polarized Age: The U.S. Congress and Foreign Policy Sanctions," School of International Service Research Paper No. 2015-2 (2015)
 

Jordan Tama, “The 9/11 Commission,” in Gregory Moore, editor, Encyclopedia of U.S. Intelligence (Auerbach Publications, 2015), 9-13

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Jordan Tama, “Changing Course in a Time of War: Congress and the 2006 Iraq Study Group,” in Maxmillian Angerholzer III, James Kitfield, Christopher P. Lu, and Norman Ornstein, editors, Triumphs and Tragedies of the Modern Congress: Case Studies in Legislative Leadership (Praeger, 2014), 311-317

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Works in Progress

 

Bipartisanship in a Polarized Age: When Democrats and Republicans Cooperate on U.S. Foreign Policy (Book manuscript)

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"Elite Misperceptions and the Domestic Politics of Conflict," with Joshua Kertzer, Joshua Busby, Jonathan Monten, and Craig Kafura
 

“Binding Hands or Granting Discretion: Congress, the President and the Design of Economic Sanctions,” with Ashrakat Elshehawy, Nikolay Marinov, and Federico Nanni

 

“Pushing Back against the President: The U.S. Congress, Advocacy Groups, and Foreign Policy Spending”

 

“Varieties of Bipartisanship: How Democrats and Republicans Align on Foreign and Domestic Policy"

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“The Domestic and International Drivers of Legislative Action on Sanctions”
 

“Bridging the Gap in a Changing World: New Opportunities and Challenges for Engaging Practitioners and the Public,” with Naazneen Barma, Brent Durbin, James Goldgeier, Bruce Jentleson, and Steven Weber

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