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 stories and one that is especially amenable to comparative coverage learn. This edited quantity brings jointly a number of the top students within the box to check the definition, conceptualization and operationalization of coverage switch. Drawing on empirical fabrics from various longitudinal stories of Europe and North American coverage improvement, this booklet assesses a few 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 over the last few years has correlated with its exponential monetary progress. the eu Union (EU), the world's greatest improvement reduction supplier, has been feeling the warmth of Beijing's nearer ties with Africa. for that reason, 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 via the good fortune of China's investments in Africa, and by way of the beneficial reaction that China's funding proposals have acquired 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 components of modernism and postmodernism, but there was no try and evaluate those theories and their resources in keeping with a standard criterion or logical form. This author argues that whereas those pioneering, inventive and interesting theoretical works are disparate, additionally they percentage a standard thread that seeks to precise emancipatory ambitions 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 overseas international relations right down to earth and places a human face on a mysterious occupation that has gone through a dramatic transformation given that September eleven, 2001. during the tales of yankee diplomats, the publication explains how their paintings impacts hundreds of thousands of individuals within the usa and worldwide on a daily basis, and the way it contributes on to U.