This article analyzes how foreign policymakers legitimize their enactment of role conceptions to play a more active role at the global level toward a potentially reluctant domestic audience. In order to reduce the likelihood of domestic role contestation while at the same time subscribe toward ego and alter expectations, it is necessary for policymakers to legitimize role conceptions and their enactments toward domestic audiences. This article develops the notion of role legitimation to capture this process and puts forward two mechanisms through which role legitimation is performed. The first mechanism is the revival of roles from a specific period in time that is deeply entrenched as an inalienable historical feature of the state. The second one is the reproduction of the international expectations into the domestic political discourse. To illustrate the argument, this article utilizes the case of Indonesia's foreign policy during Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's Presidency (2004–2014), particularly its engagement at G20, its objective to make the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) a global player, and its agenda to promote democracy and moderate Islam at the global level.

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外交政策中的角色合法化：以尤多约诺 (Yudhoyono) 总统任期内的新兴大国印度尼西亚为例 (2004-2014)

本文分析了外交政策制定者如何使他们的角色概念的制定合法化，以便在全球层面对可能不情愿的国内观众发挥更积极的作用。为了减少国内角色竞争的可能性，同时认同自我并改变期望，政策制定者有必要使角色概念及其对国内受众的制定合法化。本文提出了角色合法化的概念来捕捉这一过程，并提出了两种执行角色合法化的机制。第一个机制是在特定时期的角色复兴，这是根深蒂固的国家不可分割的历史特征。二是国际期待在国内政治话语中的再生产。