European and North American Policy Change: Drivers and Dynamics (Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science)

The difficulty of coverage dynamics is a key one in coverage reviews and one that is very amenable to comparative coverage learn. This edited quantity brings jointly many of the major students within the box to envision the definition, conceptualization and operationalization of coverage swap. Drawing on empirical fabrics from quite a few longitudinal reviews of Europe and North American coverage improvement, this ebook assesses many of the significant latest and unresolved matters presently not easy the self-discipline.

China and the European Union in Africa: Partners or Competitors?

China's upward push at the overseas scene during the last few years has correlated with its exponential financial progress. the ecu Union (EU), the world's biggest improvement reduction supplier, has been feeling the warmth of Beijing's nearer ties with Africa. consequently, the EU's total policy-making in the direction of Africa has suffered from a lack of credibility and this has been extra uncovered either by means of the luck of China's investments in Africa, and by means of the beneficial reaction that China's funding proposals have bought from African leaders.

Emancipatory International Relations: Critical Thinking in International Relations (New International Relations)

Diplomacy thought is witnessing a veritable explosion of works in the parts of modernism and postmodernism, but there was no try to examine those theories and their resources based on a typical criterion or logical form. This author argues that whereas those pioneering, imaginitive and fascinating theoretical works are disparate, additionally they proportion a typical thread that seeks to specific emancipatory pursuits for diplomacy.

America's Other Army: The U.S. Foreign Service and 21st-Century Diplomacy (Second Updated Edition)

"America's different military" brings the high-flying global of foreign international relations right down to earth and places a human face on a mysterious career that has passed through a dramatic transformation considering that September eleven, 2001. throughout the tales of yank diplomats, the ebook explains how their paintings impacts thousands of individuals within the usa and worldwide each day, and the way it contributes on to U.